No plugins, no vault, no app. Claude works the files directly.

Andrej Karpathy's "use Claude with Obsidian" thread hit 17M views, and now everyone is bolting Obsidian onto their AI workflow. Here is what you NEED to know. 🚀✨ Build your Future-Proof AI Productivity System TODAY: https://www.myicor.com/?utm_source=yo... For knowledge workers who want a real AI team running their personal and business knowledge, not another notes app to maintain. Personal Knowledge Management was always manual labor: backlinks, graph views, plugin chains, you doing the work for the tool. That era is over. The future is PKA, Personal Knowledge Assistance, where the AI builds, indexes, and retrieves while you focus on the conclusions. This video walks through Andrej's post line by line, shows where Obsidian becomes dead weight, and reveals the actual setup Paco and I run every day: a local folder, Claude Code, an inbox-based AI team, and Larry the orchestrator pulling the whole system together. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 The Obsidian + Claude trend everyone is copying 00:22 Andrej Karpathy's 17M-view post 01:13 No wrong or right, but here is the misconception 01:36 PKM is dead. The future is PKA (Personal Knowledge Assistance) 02:39 My setup: team inbox vs raw directory 03:24 Owner's inbox: where AI deliverables land for review 04:23 Why Obsidian as an "IDE" makes no sense 04:51 Karpathy: "the LLM writes and maintains the wiki" 05:42 Q&A on the wiki (and why NotebookLM does it better) 06:14 NotebookLM with 118 sources, audio, slides, mind maps 07:21 The "fancy RAG" question and the 1M context shortcut 08:00 Why your knowledge base should be conclusions, not inputs 09:08 Brain-agnostic: swap Claude for Gemini without touching your files 09:24 Output as markdown files, slideshows, whatever you want 09:56 Inside the AI Team Blueprint folder structure 11:11 Why VS Code beats Obsidian for raw control 13:24 My real PKA running my personal life 15:31 The interface I vibe-coded over my own wiki 17:25 Why the Obsidian layer is nonsense 19:09 Larry the orchestrator: how the AI team is wired 20:09 Specialized agents, SOPs, and Nolan our HR agent 22:50 Replacing humans (except me and Paco) at myICOR 23:24 Larry routes to Jax, our community manager, in real time 25:01 Brain-agnostic in action: swapping Claude for Gemini 26:42 What real AI knowledge work looks like 27:28 X comments breakdown: the car analogy people keep botching 29:24 Obsidian is the reader, the folder is the knowledge base 31:21 My one-hour setup video: folder + Claude Code + nothing else 32:00 Join myICOR: workshops and weekly coaching with Tom and Paco RESOURCES ICOR Methodology: https://www.myicor.com/?utm_source=yo... Subscribe for more on AI productivity systems, the ICOR Methodology, and how Paco and I run a real business with an AI team instead of a tool stack. ABOUT Tom helps professionals build AI productivity systems that work, using the tool-agnostic ICOR Methodology, courses, personal coaching, and a growing community on myICOR. ICOR was built together with co-founder Paco Cantero. LinkedIn:   / tomsolid   X: https://x.com/TomSolidPM Podcast:    / @productivitylikeapro   Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links. If you click and purchase, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. #ClaudeAI #obsidianmd #PKM #obsidian #AIProductivity #knowledgemanagement #notetaking #claudecode #vscode #PKA 🚀✨ Build your Future-Proof AI Productivity System TODAY: https://www.myicor.com/?utm_source=yo...