Nick Milo — Obsidian + Claude CoWork AI OS Setup

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This is the complete guide to my AI OS, a system designed to get the most out of todays AI technology without locking you into a model that might be obsolete in a few years. If you want to get the most out of Claude Cowork (or any model) this is for you.

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I’m Nick Milo, and I help you create a digital home for your best thinking – a personal Ideaverse of your notes and insights - no matter the app or ecosystem.

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00:00 My AI OS 01:11 Step 1 - Setting Up Obsidian 03:22 Step 2 - Setting Up Claude Cowork 07:02 Step 3 - Setting Up Your Maps 11:34 Step 4 - Linking Your AI

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Key Insights

Based on the full video transcript:

This is my AI OS, Obsidian, Claude, and all the pieces that you need to bring them together. By the end of this video, you’ll know how I use this system, the actual AI enhanced skills I use, and how you can set up your own system that’s both futureproof and works with any AI tool instead of locking you in to Claude, Codex, Gemini, or Frank. Hi, I’m Nick Milo, and yes, I’m a real person, and I help you create an idea, a home for capturing and using your best thinking. My AI operating system, it has three layers. The first one is my ideaverse, which is my own thoughts. Second, the core maps and manuals that allow my AI or any external AI to consistently and safely interact with my ideas and so that we can communicate back and forth. And the third layer is whatever external AI tools or applications I’m plugging into. And in this case, it’ll be Claude Co-work. The best part is if Cloud goes away tomorrow, I could instantly swap it out with Codeex with an open source model with whatever I need. I have all my files, skills, and AI core documents built to go with me, ready to use in whatever AI ecosystem or environment I want to connect it to in the future. And that means we’ve got to start with your ideaverse in Obsidian. Obsidian is at its core just a folder of notes sitting on your computer. The main folder is called your vault, and that’s basically it. Inside that folder, your notes are individual text files written in a format called markdown. You can open those files in Obsidian and they look beautiful, but you can also open them up in any other app that reads markdown. So that could be text edit, it could be VS Code, IIA rider, and even AI tools like Claude Co-work. So even if Obsidian disappears tomorrow, as long as there are computers, you’ll have a way to open your notes. And this is essential within Obsidian. My primary folders are Atlas, calendar, and efforts, or ACE for short. Atlas is for your knowledge, your ideas, your reference material, the things that you want to think about and be able to build and develop over time. Calendar is for your timebased notes, daily notes, journals, meetings, anything anchored to specific moments. And efforts are for the things that you’re working on, your projects, your your big big efforts, your tasks, works, anything productivity oriented. One of the things that made Obsidian so unique in the early days was the ability to link notes to each other. All you have to do here is type double bracket twice and then start typing the note title or a keyword and you’ll see that there are all these possible connections you can create and as you make those connections you can watch your graph view grow individual notes they become these dots and then links become lines and suddenly you can see the surprising amount of relationships between these links and dots between our ideas that you never would have noticed otherwise. Each time you revisit a linked note connecting to another note, you’re strengthening the connection between them. Both in the app, but also in your own mind. And in this way, this system that we’re creating, it gets better the more that you use it. If you want the full details on how to set up the basics or what to do if you want to go more advanced, check out the description link below. It covers all the Obsidian basics so you’re not lost as we go deeper. In this way, Obsidian organizes the heart of my AI operating system, which has to be my own thoughts. Now, we’re going to jump from the innermost layer to the outermost, the AI toolkit that will connect to your IDverse. So, for this, we’ll be using Claude Co-work. To use Co-Work, download the Claude desktop app and then sign in with your Claude account. Inside the desktop app, you’ll see a toggle bar that lets you switch between three modes. Co-work is the one in the middle. It works when you select a folder on your computer, you click allow, and then just like that, Co-work can see everything in the folder that you’ve linked

Chapters

• 00:00 — My AI OS
• 01:11 — Step 1 - Setting Up Obsidian
• 03:22 — Step 2 - Setting Up Claude Cowork
• 07:02 — Step 3 - Setting Up Your Maps
• 11:34 — Step 4 - Linking Your AI