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Build Your Second Brain

Wire Claude to your email, calendar, Drive and meeting transcripts so it answers from your whole working life — not the open web.

This is the spine of the whole programme. A “second brain” is simply Claude connected to the places your knowledge actually lives — so when you ask a question, it answers from your world.

The wow

“What did we promise Northwind, and where did we leave the SSO question?” → Answered instantly from your emails, the meeting transcript, and the proposal in Drive — sourced, in seconds.

What it connects

  • Email + Calendar — your conversations and your schedule.
  • Drive — your documents and data.
  • Slack — your team’s decisions.
  • Transcripts — every meeting, turned into durable memory.

How to build it (Week 3 → compounds to Week 8)

  1. Turn on the Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Slack connectors and a transcript source.
  2. Create a “Second Brain” Project with instructions for how it should recall and cite.
  3. Add your most-used reference docs to the Project’s knowledge.
  4. Each week, feed it more (meeting notes, reports) so its memory deepens.

Diligence

  • This Project sees a lot — treat it with the same care as the data it draws on; scope access deliberately, and know that connector data isn’t used to train models.

Why it’s transformational

Generic AI answers from the internet. A second brain answers from you — and that’s the difference between a clever toy and a tool that genuinely makes you fly.

Become the AI-powered one in your office

Eight weeks. A real project every week. A personal AI assistant that does real work for you — taught live.