Your best ideas are scattered across documents, notebooks, browser tabs, and "I'll remember that later" moments—making research, worldbuilding, and series continuity a frustrating mess. This course teaches you Obsidian to build a connected, searchable author brain where notes link together, files stay private and portable in markdown, and everything becomes findable and reusable. Learn to set up your first vault, master bi-directional linking for character arcs and research trails, customize themes and layouts, and build real workflows for market research, outlines, character bibles, and story continuity. Instructor Kimberly Gordon shows you how to turn Obsidian into a second brain that works offline, syncs across devices, and scales from one book to an entire author business—without becoming a productivity hobby. No platform lock-in, no subscriptions, just markdown files you own forever. This isn't just note-taking, it's finally having one reliable home for everything you know.