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---
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title: Welcome to Your Second Brain
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tags: [getting-started, meta, second-brain]
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aliases: [home, start-here]
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date: 2026-03-05
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---
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# Welcome to Your Second Brain
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This is your AI-powered personal knowledge management system.
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## What is a Second Brain?
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A **Second Brain** is an external, digital system for capturing, organising, and sharing ideas, insights, and information. The concept was popularised by [[Building a Second Brain]] by Tiago Forte.
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By externalising your thinking, you:
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- Free up mental RAM for creative work
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- Build a personal knowledge base that compounds over time
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- Make connections between ideas you might otherwise miss
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## How This System Works
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Your notes live in this Markdown vault — fully compatible with [[Obsidian]] and [[Logseq]].
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The AI layer:
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1. **Ingests** every Markdown file automatically
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2. **Embeds** content into vector space for semantic search
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3. **Links** related documents autonomously
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4. **Tags** untagged documents using an LLM
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5. **Summarises** long documents for quick reference
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## Getting Started
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1. Add Markdown files to this vault
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2. Use `[[WikiLinks]]` to connect ideas
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3. Add YAML frontmatter for structured metadata
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4. Search your knowledge at `http://localhost:3000/search`
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5. Chat with your notes at `http://localhost:3000/chat`
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## Folder Structure
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- `daily/` — Daily notes and journals
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- `projects/` — Active projects
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- `resources/` — Reference material and research
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- `areas/` — Ongoing areas of responsibility
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- `templates/` — Note templates
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## Tips
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- Use `#tags` inline or in frontmatter
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- `[[WikiLinks]]` create automatic knowledge graph edges
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- The AI agents run in the background — check the graph view after a few minutes
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