Second Brain Starter — Free Obsidian Mini-Vault

Three folders, three templates, three rules — and you have a place for everything that crosses your mind, plus a daily routine that costs you 17 minutes a day.

This is the free entry point to the Second Brain Starter: a complete, ready-to-use Obsidian vault with templates in English and German.

What's inside

Folder	Purpose
00_Inbox	Inbox — everything lands here, emptied in the evening
06_Daily	Daily notes & journal
07_Templates	6 templates (3 EN + 3 DE): daily note, project note, permanent note

No community plugins required — it runs on stock Obsidian.

The three rules (the whole trick)

1. Capture, don't sort. Everything lands in 00_Inbox/ first — sorting happens in the evening (5 minutes).
2. One note, one idea. Write in your own words what you mean.
3. Always link. Every note links at least one other note — that turns a collection into a network, and the network is the "second brain".

Quick start (10 minutes)

1. Download Obsidian for free from https://obsidian.md
2. Open this repo's second-brain-in-10-minuten-v0.2.zip (or clone the repo) and open the folder as a vault in Obsidian.
3. Create today's daily note from the template (07_Templates/Daily-Note.md or Tagesnote.md) in 06_Daily/ — filename = today's date.
4. From tomorrow: 7 minutes in the morning (daily note + 3 goals), 10 minutes in the evening (process inbox, close the daily note).

More

• Live landing page & blog: https://secondbrainstarter.github.io/
• The full vault system (10 folders, 14 templates, 8 topic hubs, DE+EN methodology guides) is coming soon — the waitlist is on the landing page.
• Questions or ideas? Write to geld.hamster@gmx.net — every mail is read.