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Pre-Work
Mini Course
Install, Theory, Demo. You arrived ready.
Why This Matters
The average human life is 4,000 weeks.
How many of yours have already slipped by?
"There's a sense in which every moment of life is a 'last time.' It arrives; you'll never get it again. To treat all these moments solely as stepping-stones to some future moment is to demonstrate a level of obliviousness to our real situation that would be jaw-dropping if it weren't for the fact that we all do it, all the time."
YOUR DAYS
What if nothing worth remembering got lost?
Think about the last month. The wins, the lessons, the moments that mattered. How much of that can you actually access right now? Most people lose 90% of their lived experience within weeks. Your daily journal captures it all: timestamped logs, morning reflections, evening reviews. Weekly and monthly rollups show you patterns you'd never notice otherwise. Without a system, you keep making the same mistakes. With one, every day builds on the last.
YOUR WORK
What if you never drop a ball at work again?
Every meeting you attend, every work connection you made, every task you commit to: captured, organized, and surfaced exactly when you need it. Your meeting notes process themselves. Your tasks sort into a board that knows what's overdue, what needs discussion, and what's waiting on someone else. No more scrambling before a 1:1 or forgetting what you promised last Tuesday.
YOUR CURIOSITY
What if your curiosity actually led somewhere?
You bookmark articles. You save YouTube videos. You tell yourself you'll get to it later. But later never comes. What if every article, video, and podcast got automatically processed into structured notes with key summaries, and tagged references? A living library where what you consume turns into something you can actually use: connected ideas, researchable knowledge, and outputs that build on everything you've learned.
So What Makes This Different?
This is not just a Second Brain.
This is a Second Brain that talks back to you.
You've probably tried Notion, Roam, Evernote, or even Obsidian before. It didn't stick. Not because you lacked discipline. Because the system couldn't keep up with your life. Two things changed everything:
Obsidian is where you think
Your Obsidian Vault extends what you're capable of thinking. Your links surface connections your brain forgot it made. Your structure holds context across weeks and months that your memory never could.
- Your mind doesn't stop at your skull - this is extended cognition
- Links surface connections your brain forgot it made
- Structure holds context across weeks and months
- If your vault got deleted, you'd lose a part of how you think
Claude Code keeps it running
Claude Code handles the grunt work so you never have to. It processes your meeting notes, logs your day, files your sources, manages your tasks, and maintains the structure so you never have to stop thinking to do maintenance.
- Processes meeting transcripts into structured notes in seconds
- Logs your day, files your sources, manages your tasks
- Builds custom AI skills that work exactly how you need
- Maintains the system so you never stop thinking to do admin
The thinking happens in the doing. When you decide what to capture, how to structure a note, what connects to what - that's you building your operating system. Let AI run wild without understanding what it's doing, and the tool stops being an extension of your mind. 📖 Read the full article to learn more
That's why this cohort exists. We teach you how to use both, so the structure reflects how you think and the AI amplifies it without replacing it. You stay in the loop. The system stays yours.
The Proof
"Claude Code removed all the friction that killed every one of my previous attempts of building a Second Brain. The capturing and retrieval just became a non-event."
Watch Gene and Dee talk about the system Gene built, from daily logging to AI-powered note processing and automations.
Gene is a mid-career professional at a tech company in San Francisco. He'd been through the full PKM cycle: David Allen, Tiago Forte, Notion, Todoist, Capacities. Nothing stuck. Then he combined Obsidian with Claude Code. In 3 weeks, working evenings and weekends, he built:
Life Area Hierarchy
Covers Health, Career, Social, Wealth, Leisure, and Personal Development.
Daily Operating System
Logs his entire day with timestamps, photos, and reflections.
Meeting Processing
Turns transcripts into structured notes, action items, and follow-ups in seconds.
Task Management
Sorts work into Today, Overdue, Discuss, Follow Up, and Inbox.
Source Pipeline
Captures YouTube videos, articles, and podcasts into connected knowledge notes.
Life Reviews
Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly reviews with heatmaps and life charts.
Travel & Events
Travel journals, event logs, recipe collections, and location databases.
8 Custom AI Skills
Handle the repetitive work so the system practically maintains itself.
Before
After
15-20 minutes daily just on logging
→
Automated logging in under 2 minutes
Meeting notes unprocessed for weeks
→
Auto-processed with action items extracted
Articles, videos, podcasts never revisited
→
Auto-processed, tagged, and searchable
4 separate apps for tasks, notes, and media
→
Everything lives in one place
Systems abandoned every 2-3 months
→
A system that gets smarter and grows with you
The Workshop
Five milestones. One operating system.
This is a live, hands-on build over 4 weeks. Not a course where you watch videos and hope for the best.
By the end, you'll have a working personal operating system customized to your life.
02 · 05
Session 1
Obsidian Foundations
Your Day + Your Work. Daily rhythm and project system live.
03 · 05
Session 2
Claude Foundations and Source Processing
Claude md. Claude Skills. Your Curiosity. Never lose an idea, article, or video.
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Session 3
Build Your Own Skills
It gets personal. You build custom skills from scratch.
05 · 05
Office Hour
Showcase + Q&A
Everyone reconvenes. Show what you built.
Your Investment
Everything above, plus templates, vault structure, and community access
€750
- ✓ Self-paced pre-work course
- ✓ Three Live Sessions + One Office Hour with Dee and Gene over four weeks
- May 16, May 23 & May 30 • 09:00–11:00 PST / 18:00–20:00 CET
- ✓ Full template library and vault structure
- ✓ Private community channel (Discord)
- ✓ Full money-back guarantee after the 4 sessions
Cohort: May 16, 23 & 30 • 09:00–11:00 PST / 18:00–20:00 CET
All prices in EUR. The equivalent in your local currency will be shown at checkout.
Is This Right for You?
Built for People Who Think for a Living
This cohort is for knowledge workers, creators, and lifelong learners who are tired of letting information, ideas, and memories slip through the cracks.
You don't need to be technical. You need a system that actually keeps up with your life.
This is for you if:
- You've tried multiple PKM systems and none stuck
- You feel overwhelmed by information coming at you daily
- You want to capture your days but journaling always falls off
- You're curious about AI but haven't found a personal use case
- You want a system that grows with you instead of fighting you
This is not for you if:
- You're looking for a quick fix or a magic template
- You don't want to invest time building something meaningful
- You're happy with how you currently organize your life
Your Guides
Built by practitioners, not theorists.
Learn from people who've actually built this and lived with it every day.
Dee
PKM Systems Builder · Construct by Dee4+ years building personal knowledge systems and helping others build theirs through his YouTube channel and private coaching. One of the first practitioners to integrate AI into the PKM workflow. He brings the methodology, the teaching structure, and years of insight into what actually works when real life gets busy.
Gene
Knowledge Worker · Tech Industry ProfessionalSpent years in the PKM cycle, buying courses, trying apps, building systems that collapsed under their own maintenance. When he combined Obsidian with Claude Code, everything changed. In 3 weeks, he built automations that replaced multiple apps and saved hours every week. He brings the perspective of someone who was exactly where you are.
Testimonials
What people are saying
★★★★★
"I was hesitant about adding yet another tool when I was already overwhelmed. What changed everything was realising this system actually simplified my life rather than complicated it. It's become the one place where everything clicks into place."
★★★★★
"At the beginning, Obsidian is just a tool and you need someone to show you how to actually think it through. Having Dee explain the fundamentals with practical examples tailored to my own needs made all the difference. It's supposed to save you time and it does."
★★★★★
"This course has been an absolute game changer. Turning Obsidian into an intelligent personal assistant with Claude Code is something I didn't think was possible. I've automated tasks I used to dread and my whole workflow feels different now."
The Gap Between the Best Version of Yourself and You Is a System.
You already know what a good life looks like. You know what habits you want, what goals matter, what information is worth keeping. The gap isn't motivation. It's infrastructure. This is the infrastructure.
Next cohort: May 16, 2026
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FAQ
Common Questions
Live workshop over 4 weeks. Self-paced pre-work course followed by four live sessions, one per week. Real-time building with direct guidance from both of us. You're not watching recordings. You're building your system alongside us.
No. Claude Code handles the technical side. If you can type a sentence, you can use this system.
Yes. You'll receive a purpose-built LifeStack demo vault and templates as part of the pre-work, with instructions on how to get everything set up before our first session. During the live sessions, we'll provide you with custom Claude Code skills and detailed guidance to personalize the system for your specific use cases.
We recommend setting up Claude Code and Obsidian using the LifeStack demo vault as a new instance during our live session. In the final session, we walk you through how to migrate everything into your own vault using Claude Code. It's as simple as pointing it at both vaults and asking it to integrate according to the new structure. This way you can focus on learning the system without worrying about breaking anything in your personal vault. By the end of this course, you'll know how to supercharge your existing vault with AI-powered workflows that handle the maintenance and processing automatically.
A computer (Mac, Windows, or Linux), Obsidian (free), and a Claude Max subscription ($100/month). Claude Max is required because the system uses Claude Code, which runs AI directly on your files and needs the extended usage that Max provides. Think of it as hiring a full-time assistant for your vault. We'll walk you through the full setup in Session 1.
Plan for 2-3 hours between sessions to explore your vault and customize your workflows. The more you put in, the more personalized your system becomes.
That's what the cohort is for. You'll have access to us and the group throughout the program. We'll teach you how to turn Claude Code into your assistant, so you can ask it to fix, adjust, or rebuild anything at any time.
We offer a full money-back guarantee. If you go through all 4 sessions and feel this hasn't delivered the value we promised, we'll refund you in full. No questions asked.