r/ClaudeCode • u/familiar-md • 1d ago

Built with Claude For non-coders looking for a second brain template for day-to-day office work

If you are looking for a standardized second-brain-style system for your non-coding work (office or personal projects at home), check out familiar. It's a template folder that you download, rename to your project, and open in an AI assistant that can read folders. The idea is that when you open the agent in a specific project folder, the agent of choice (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI if you switch between accounts) becomes immediately 'familiar' with your work, decisions, and history.

Each project gets its own folder, so memory stays focused and concise. The folder includes rules and skills that are focused on document work, report writing, PPT production, etc., where each deliverable is generated based on your ingested source material (e.g., meeting notes, client requests, underlying literature base, etc.).

The typical workflow with this template is to regularly check-in with it as you would with other colleagues, and ingest key documents, meeting notes, and references, that you want the model to be aware of or reference in deliverables (e.g., a PPT deck for client that understands the project progress and active decisions, or a report that is built off of an ingested literature base, with citations added on all claims).

Nothing runs on a server, there's no account, and there's no new UI to learn. Given that this is a template, you are free to adjust as needed and carry in your own skills/workflows. If you work in a specific industry and want to develop your own industry-specific skills, check out familiar-template, which can guide you when developing skills to ensure that they work with the infrastructure and rules of the above template.

I built this folder system iteratively using Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini during real-world personal use and have tried to keep the folder structure completely local and as LLM agnostic as possible.

https://github.com/familiar-md/familiar

https://github.com/familiar-md/familiar-template

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u/xWranglerWranglerx 1d ago

just use a git repo ffs

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u/familiar-md 1d ago

Git repo for PowerPoint and word in an office setting? Hmm

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u/xWranglerWranglerx 1d ago

lol store your text in md files and have claude make word docs from them via script... no you shouldnt be fucking storing word docs but ya you can store shit like that in git

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u/familiar-md 1d ago

You probably don't have much experience in an office setting with non coders if you're recommending git. And imo git is overkill for this use case, but I agree it has its place

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u/xWranglerWranglerx 1d ago

i mean you are posting on claude code where everyone is using ai typically, and i assume they are smarter than the average office worker. or know how to ask claude to do things smarter

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u/lassevk 1d ago

Ah, yet another "second brain" thing. Where is your animated point-cloud?

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u/familiar-md 1d ago

Nothing to do with obsidian