Second brain template
A copy of my whole second-brain setup with none of my data in it, for friends: the rules, the routines, a sample daily board, and a setup that fills itself from your own email, calendar and files.
- Why
- A friend wanted to see how my daily board runs. Screenshots would not help anyone build one, so I made the system itself shareable.
- How long
- Built 13 Oct 2026; last synced 18 Oct
How I built it
- I made a private GitHub repo and marked it as a template.
- I ported every rule and routine by rewriting it in generic words, with a placeholder for the owner's name.
- I built a sample daily board with a made-up ceramics studio's data.
- Before every push, the AI scans for any name from my real notes: people, companies, places.
- I wrote the setup so it never interviews you: about 30 minutes of setup, then one hands-off run of 1 to 3 hours fills the pages from your accounts.
- To copy it you need
- Claude, or the AI of your choice, with Claude Code and a private GitHub repo. The gotcha: rewrite, never copy. A copied file carries names you forgot were in it.
Try it yourself
Copy this prompt and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude to try it yourself.
I'm looking at Shweta Kamble's second brain template on whatarewebuilding.ai: a private GitHub template with Shweta's whole AI setup (rules, routines, a sample daily board) rewritten in generic words, with no personal data, and a setup that fills itself from the new owner's accounts instead of interviewing them. I want to share my own setup the same way. Ask me which folders hold my system and which hold my life, then list what to port, rewrite each file generically, and build a list of names to scan for before anything is shared. The gotcha Shweta hit: copied files carry names you forgot. Rewrite, never copy. Ask me for anything you need.
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