--- schema: 1 type: video title: Claude Code Can Be Your Second Brain description: >- Noah Brier uses Claude Code as his second brain—it’s the coolest notetaking setup we’ve ever seen. He has Claude running on a server in his basement hooked up to a VPN. It stores, reads, and writes to thousands of notes in his Obsidian vault. He does it all from his phone. We had him on the show to tell us exactly how he’s pulling this off. Dan and Noah get into: The nuts and bolts of the Claude Code-Obsidian setup: Noah set up Claude Code on top of his Obsidian root directory, and he walked me through how he uses it to prep for an upcoming speech—creating a project folder, pulling in relevant research from his notes, saving transcripts from chats with other LLMs, and generating daily progress updates. The “thinking partner” that lives inside Noah’s second brain: Noah points out that in the hype around AI’s ability to write, the fact that it can read is overlooked. That’s why he has an agent inside Claude Code with strict guardrails to stay in “thinking mode.” It logs his questions, tracks insights, and catches him up on research if he returns to a project after a few days away. How Noah does deep work on his phone: Noah rigged a home server in his basement, put his Obsidian vault in it—and then runs Claude Code on top. Noah says that being able to think, write, research, and ship code from his phone has fundamentally changed the way he works. This episode is a must-watch for anyone curious about who wants to learn how to use Claude Code to build a true second brain. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Start building in Google AI Studio at ai.dev. Ready to build a site that looks hand-coded—without hiring a developer? Launch your site for free at Framer.com, and use code DAN to get your first month of Pro on the house. Want even more? 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To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: ⁠https://every.to/subscribe⁠ Follow him on X: ⁠https://twitter.com/danshipper⁠ Timestamps: 00:01:19 - Introduction 00:04:28 - How you can do deep work on your phone 00:06:14 - Why Noah thinks Grok has the best voice AI 00:11:39 - The nuts and bolts of Noah’s Claude Code-Obsidian setup 00:23:59 - Using an agent in Claude Code as a “thinking partner” 00:35:07 - Noah’s Thomas’ English Muffin theory of AI 00:44:04 - The white space still left to explore in AI 00:50:41 - How Noah is preparing his kids for AI 01:01:54 - How he brought his Claude Code setup to mobile Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Noah Brier: ⁠https://www.noahbrier.com/⁠, ⁠Noah Brier (@heyitsnoah) / X⁠ Alephic, his AI strategy consultancy: ⁠alephic.com⁠ The conference he leads about marketing and AI: ⁠http://BRXND.AI⁠ A newsletter he writes about AI: ⁠newsletter.brxnd.ai⁠ The declassified relic from World War II they talk about: ⁠https://www.alephic.com/sabotage The apps Noah used to set up Claude Code on his phone: ⁠Termius⁠, ⁠Tailscale⁠ canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md' channel: everyinc updated: '2026-10-24T01:07:23.585Z' language: null children: [] videoId: 8V9tZwgjiRs durationSeconds: 4313 publishedAt: '2025-09-10T15:00:12.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 0 endSeconds: 11 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=0' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 116 endSeconds: 219 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=116' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 230 endSeconds: 350 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=230' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 362 endSeconds: 496 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=362' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 506 endSeconds: 618 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=506' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 716 endSeconds: 727 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=716' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 971 endSeconds: 1097 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=971' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 1108 endSeconds: 1244 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=1108' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 1108 endSeconds: 1244 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=1108' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 1399 endSeconds: 1482 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=1399' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 1493 endSeconds: 1579 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=1493' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 1590 endSeconds: 1691 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=1590' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 1905 endSeconds: 1993 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=1905' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 2093 endSeconds: 2105 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=2093' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 2310 endSeconds: 2419 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=2310' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 2571 endSeconds: 2690 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=2571' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 3044 endSeconds: 3170 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=3044' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 3324 endSeconds: 3439 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=3324' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 3553 endSeconds: 3564 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=3553' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 3692 endSeconds: 3791 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=3692' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 20 text: null startSeconds: 3692 endSeconds: 3791 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=3692' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 21 text: null startSeconds: 3951 endSeconds: 4040 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=3951' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 22 text: null startSeconds: 4040 endSeconds: 4051 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=4040' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 23 text: null startSeconds: 4162 endSeconds: 4313 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs?t=4162' heldReason: rights --- # Claude Code Can Be Your Second Brain Noah Brier uses Claude Code as his second brain—it’s the coolest notetaking setup we’ve ever seen. He has Claude running on a server in his basement hooked up to a VPN. It stores, reads, and writes to thousands of notes in his Obsidian vault. He does it all from his phone. We had him on the show to tell us exactly how he’s pulling this off. Dan and Noah get into: The nuts and bolts of the Claude Code-Obsidian setup: Noah set up Claude Code on top of his Obsidian root directory, and he walked me through how he uses it to prep for an upcoming speech—creating a project folder, pulling in relevant research from his notes, saving transcripts from chats with other LLMs, and generating daily progress updates. The “thinking partner” that lives inside Noah’s second brain: Noah points out that in the hype around AI’s ability to write, the fact that it can read is overlooked. That’s why he has an agent inside Claude Code with strict guardrails to stay in “thinking mode.” It logs his questions, tracks insights, and catches him up on research if he returns to a project after a few days away. How Noah does deep work on his phone: Noah rigged a home server in his basement, put his Obsidian vault in it—and then runs Claude Code on top. Noah says that being able to think, write, research, and ship code from his phone has fundamentally changed the way he works. This episode is a must-watch for anyone curious about who wants to learn how to use Claude Code to build a true second brain. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Start building in Google AI Studio at ai.dev. Ready to build a site that looks hand-coded—without hiring a developer? Launch your site for free at Framer.com, and use code DAN to get your first month of Pro on the house. Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: ⁠https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt⁠. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: ⁠https://every.to/subscribe⁠ Follow him on X: ⁠https://twitter.com/danshipper⁠ Timestamps: 00:01:19 - Introduction 00:04:28 - How you can do deep work on your phone 00:06:14 - Why Noah thinks Grok has the best voice AI 00:11:39 - The nuts and bolts of Noah’s Claude Code-Obsidian setup 00:23:59 - Using an agent in Claude Code as a “thinking partner” 00:35:07 - Noah’s Thomas’ English Muffin theory of AI 00:44:04 - The white space still left to explore in AI 00:50:41 - How Noah is preparing his kids for AI 01:01:54 - How he brought his Claude Code setup to mobile Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Noah Brier: ⁠https://www.noahbrier.com/⁠, ⁠Noah Brier (@heyitsnoah) / X⁠ Alephic, his AI strategy consultancy: ⁠alephic.com⁠ The conference he leads about marketing and AI: ⁠http://BRXND.AI⁠ A newsletter he writes about AI: ⁠newsletter.brxnd.ai⁠ The declassified relic from World War II they talk about: ⁠https://www.alephic.com/sabotage The apps Noah used to set up Claude Code on his phone: ⁠Termius⁠, ⁠Tailscale⁠ Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/8V9tZwgjiRs · Channel: [Every](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.