The Ultimate Knowledge Base: Bring YouTube Into Your AI Second Brain
Get started with SerpApi using 250 free credits: https://serpapi.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=colemedin_july_2026 I turned my entire YouTube channel into one knowledge base you can drop straight into your second brain. The best part is this strategy works for literally any YouTube channel! Everything is turned into plain markdown, so it can go right into Obsidian just like a Karpathy LLM wiki. On top of that, it uses Google OKF (the new LLM wiki standard) so your agent can learn how to leverage the knowledge base immediately. In this video I show you how I built it, how the canonicalization step collapses dozens of videos into one clean page per idea, and how to pull the whole thing into your own second brain with a single prompt. I also give you three Claude Code skills so you can build one of these for any channel you follow. It's never been easier to keep up with all your favorite YouTube channels. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - I just hosted the free AI-Native Transformation Workshop, showing you how to effectively adopt AI as a standard for your engineering team. Register here to get the recording: https://dynamous.ai/ai-native-engineering-org - The knowledge base (clone this, point your AI at it): https://github.com/coleam00/cole-medin-knowledge-base Last video (the OKF explainer this builds on): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33iI6izAKw - Open Knowledge Format (Google): https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/tree/main/okf Karpathy's LLM Wiki: https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f Thanks to SerpAPI for sponsoring this video :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 0:00 Introduction to OKF 1:14 Demo: Asking My Whole Channel Anything 2:54 Install It With One Prompt 3:26 Inside the Knowledge Base 4:53 The Obsidian Graph View 6:02 Sponsor: SerpAPI 7:37 How I Built It: Extracting Transcripts 8:45 Canonicalization: The Hard Part 11:58 Build One For Any Channel 14:27 Conclusion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos weekly - at least every Wednesday at 7:00 PM CDT!
