Give Your Business A Second Brain

Every Tool, Nothing Holding Them Together

A client of mine was sharing with me how he's using Claude Code, he's using Obsidian, he's using Wispr Flow, and he's still running into inefficiencies in his processes. He had multiple chat windows open inside of Claude and he was trying to track his progress within those chats.

He was even using the projects feature, which allowed him to have some memory context, but not the complete picture of his entire workflow and his projects. So he was spending an extreme amount of time just tracking all of his projects and trying to figure out how to pick up where he left off in a way that isn't so time consuming.

I showed him three tools, and the one addition that turns them into a second brain for your business. It is a persistent memory system you can query at will, so you can ask anything about your processes, your clients, your projects, or any of the work related to your business, and it will give you an exact historical answer of what you've been working on.

Tool One: Wispr Flow

Wispr Flow is a dictation tool that allows you to speak directly into the mic at your own normal talking voice, and it dictates everything that you share into any text window that you're using. This could be an email, this could be Microsoft Word, it could be directly into your LLM, it could be a chat box.

I guarantee you, we all speak at least five times faster than we do type. That single change makes you faster on the input and faster on the output, before you have touched anything else in your setup.

Anything that you use to type, you can actually now speak.

Tool Two: Claude Code

What's the difference between the Claude web and desktop clients versus Claude Code? Claude Code you download onto your computer and it runs inside of a coding terminal, which I know sounds completely intimidating. It took me probably three or four weeks to get used to working inside of that terminal.

Once you understand the capabilities that this presents, and once you get comfortable working in the terminal, you'll never go back to the web and desktop client. Claude Code has the ability to read, write and create files directly onto your PC, and it also has the ability to download tools and skills for virtually any task that you want to work on.

It does all of this in the background while you're just chatting with it, just like a normal LLM.

Tool Three: Obsidian

Obsidian is essentially a note app that records markdown files directly onto your computer. A markdown file is basically a rich text file, and this is how most of these AI tools read, interface and index information.

It allows you to store and catalog all of your data in a very easy to use visual interface, so you can see how your data is organized and query it at will.

Three Tools Is Still Not The Whole Picture

Using all three of these tools is definitely a step up from how most people are using AI, and I guarantee your productivity is going to increase even just by using Wispr Flow.

You need a tweak in your setup that allows you to have persistent memory, stored locally on your computer, which will let you query all of its memory at any time and bring up any piece of information that you want.

I'm calling this a second brain because that's essentially what it is. It remembers things that you have a hard time remembering, and the workflows you created with it, down to the steps you took to get from A to B.

Where Did We Leave Off?

Currently I'm building a new website for my business, and I'm using Claude to help me create the aesthetics, the layout and most of the visual stuff that goes into a website. I'm writing the copy myself.

The old way to do this would be to open up a chat or a project, scan through and see where I left off, then pick up my work in a new chat with fresh context.

Using this triple tool setup, all I have to do is go into Claude Code and ask where we left off with the website build I was working on yesterday. The second brain pulls up exactly where I left off, and it's likely going to give me the next steps that I had in queue to complete the project.

Where did we leave off with the website build that I was working on yesterday?

Two Steps Forward And Three Steps Back

Our time is our most valuable asset. If we're wasting a lot of time prompting, re-prompting, correcting an LLM's mistakes, or even just tracking between chats and projects, we could be taking two steps forward and three steps back.

The context has to live somewhere. With no memory in the setup it lives in the owner's head, and the owner carries it by hand between every tool.

The Lessons File

This setup remembers your workflows and your data and chats and information and everything else possible, and it also includes a lessons and learnings file. While these LLMs are incredible, they are not perfect.

If it makes a mistake, if it does something that you don't want it to do, the lessons file that's logged in Obsidian records every correction that you give Claude. In the future it will not make that same mistake again, because of the indexing system that's included in the prompt.

That is what makes the work compound. The corrections you give it today are still doing their job on a project you haven't started yet.

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