Second Brain Starter Vault

A new Obsidian vault is an empty folder, which is the worst possible starting point for a note-taking system. This one comes pre-structured around Tiago Forte’s PARA method, so there’s an obvious place to put a thought the moment you have it — and an obvious path for that thought to travel as it turns into real work.

Structure

• 🌄 Days — daily notes (YYYY-MM-DD.md) as the single capture point. Events, tasks, and ideas land here first.
• 🏔️ Projects — action-oriented work with a defined outcome, split into active commitments and someday-maybe ideas.
• 🏠 Areas — ongoing life domains that need attention rather than completion.
• 👥 Relationships — profiles for the people and organizations worth remembering, with their context and history.
• 🛠️ Resources — reference material organized by topic, including a folder for reusable prompts.
• 📥 Inbox — the unsorted zone, triaged into projects, areas, or the archive.
• 📜 Archives — finished projects and retired areas, kept without cluttering the active work.

Get started

Clone the repo and open the folder as a vault in Obsidian, or copy the folder structure into a vault you already have. Everything is plain markdown with no required plugins.