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The Startup Ideas Podcast

How I Use Obsidian + Claude Code to Run My Life

23 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 6.062 Greg Isenberg

This is Obsidian. And Obsidian is this little tool that people are using as their second brain.

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Chapter 2: What is Claude Code and how does it work?

6.543 - 21.651 Greg Isenberg

But what's really cool about it is they're pairing it with Claude Code and they're getting crazy results out of it. It's literally a game changer. Now, I've been slow to adopt Obsidian because to me, it's been a little daunting to look at. So I had my friend...

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Chapter 3: What is Obsidian and why is it valuable?

21.631 - 34.97 Greg Isenberg

Vin, and he clearly explains what Obsidian is, how to use it with Cloud Code, how to set up these commands that really drive the most out of Cloud and all the LLMs.

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35.111 - 50.473 Greg Isenberg

And it's an incredible episode, like a really game-changing episode, because I think that people who understand how to use Obsidian and how to use Cloud Code together, they're going to be able to live happier, healthier, and wealthier lives. Why? Because it gives...

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Chapter 4: How do you give Claude Code access to your Obsidian vault?

50.453 - 73.44 Greg Isenberg

incredible ideas to you on tap so i know that the people that stick around to the end of this episode i think that for a lot of them it's going to absolutely change how they use ai and it's going to be a super impactful way because you're going to get better ideas at the right time the right moment and it's going to make you happier healthier and wealthier enjoy the episode

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81.858 - 90.833 Greg Isenberg

I've got my dear friend Vin, also known as Internet Vin, on the podcast. I literally begged him to come on. I begged him.

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Chapter 5: What are the thinking tools used in this system?

91.394 - 100.71 Greg Isenberg

I begged this man to come on. And to teach us a very specific thing, Vin, by the end of this podcast episode, what are people going to learn?

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101.264 - 116.408 Vin (Internet Vin)

I want you to have an understanding of how you can use Cloud Code and Obsidian as a thinking partner. I want you to have an understanding of how you can stop having to explain things to agents over and over again and just pass specific files in.

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116.448 - 124.321 Vin (Internet Vin)

And I want you to understand how you can use Obsidian and Cloud Code to notice things about the way you think that you would not have noticed on your own without these tools.

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125.082 - 128.908 Greg Isenberg

All right. From your lips to God's ears. Let's get into it.

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Chapter 6: How does reflection enhance the effectiveness of an Obsidian vault?

129.108 - 140.888 Vin (Internet Vin)

Okay. So first is like, what is cloud code? So cloud code is this like agent that you can use in a command line interface.

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Chapter 7: What is the role of autonomous agents like OpenClaw?

140.908 - 165.671 Vin (Internet Vin)

So it's just basically this tool you can use that can control your computer and you can use it through natural language, right? So I can say, make a file or make a file on my desktop that says, hello, Greg, in plain text, right? And it's gonna go and do this. That's really cool. That's something that's new. That wasn't possible before.

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166.311 - 177.085 Vin (Internet Vin)

Before this, I had to go to the desktop, open some text editor, and then create that file, right? And now this file is on my desktop. So I can say, open the file. There we go.

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Chapter 8: How does Claude Code leverage Obsidian for idea generation?

177.205 - 203.16 Vin (Internet Vin)

Hello, Greg. That's crazy, right? Now, what's interesting about this is if you have this agent that can control and do things on your computer... That means that whatever you can describe to it, like it can start to do. And so when you, if you describe a project to it or you get into these long conversations with an agent, it can do more and more complex things.

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203.18 - 220.427 Vin (Internet Vin)

The more information it has, the more complex things it can do. But the problem is that if you have to, let's say, you know, like I write some super long description about a particular project or I have like an hour conversation with this agent about a particular project. It's like, I don't want to have to create a new session to explain that all.

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220.527 - 235.39 Vin (Internet Vin)

I don't want to have to explain that over and over and over again. A lot of people are using like Cloud or ChatGPT on the web and it has things like memory, but you can't like control, you don't know what's in that memory, right? You don't know what it knows and what it doesn't know.

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235.37 - 253.501 Vin (Internet Vin)

And so there needs to be some way of like, you know, passing information into these agents that is easier and faster and the better information you can give it and the faster the information you can give it, the more stuff it can do for you and the better, the faster you can delegate to it. Okay.

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253.521 - 296.934 Vin (Internet Vin)

So now even if I, let's say, let's say I had like, you know, let's say I wrote like a big project description here, right? Create a file that describes, you know, a project, um, about, uh, to-do list app that, um, is very minimally designed and reads from all of my calendar and my messages and Slack and interprets it into a task list of tasks that it thinks that I should do.

297.454 - 308.118 Vin (Internet Vin)

I don't know, some idea, right? So now this is a file that could be on my desktop. And what I can do when I use cloud code is I can reference that file and pass it in whenever I want.

309.1 - 320.423 Greg Isenberg

And why that's important is because it's the context, right? The whole game is feeding the beast good context.

320.521 - 335.779 Vin (Internet Vin)

Yes, exactly. And I don't want to have to do this over and over again. And when I work on this over days, I'm not going to remember like what we talked about. Right. So I want some kind of file that I can like pass in. Oh, sorry, Greg. One sec.

336.35 - 351.439 Greg Isenberg

Yeah, and that's sort of the problem that a lot of people are facing with cloud code is they're using it and then they're saying, well, it's okay. It's not game changing. And the issue is they're not feeding the right context at the right time.

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