Show HN: Minimal Second Brain – An AI-native Obsidian vault template

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5 months ago

I over-engineered my note-taking system with PARA, Zettelkasten, and 25 templates. Big mistake.

So I rebuilt around 3 folders: Inbox, Projects, Knowledge.

Made it AI-native: - MANIFEST.md files so Claude/Copilot can index your vault - CLAUDE.md + AGENTS.md instruction files - GitHub Actions for auto-maintenance

Plain markdown, Git-tracked, works with any editor.

Blog post with the full journey: https://gokhanarkan.com/blog/over-engineered-note-taking/