daily

name	daily
description	Daily briefing: surfaces tasks due today and open items from the last session. Use when the user wants a snapshot of today's obligations — 'what's on today', 'daily briefing', 'what do I have today'. Do NOT use for: full weekly review (use weekly), vault health check (use doctor), or listing all tasks across future dates.
schedulable	true

Daily Briefing

Surfaces tasks due today and open items from the last session.

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Before You Begin

Count inbox items: Glob [inbox_folder]/*.md and store the count as [inbox_count].

Determine today's date (YYYY-MM-DD) and current local time (local machine time):

• Morning mode: before 10:00
• Normal mode: 10:00 and later

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Phase 1: Briefing

Previous Session Recap (Morning Mode Only)

Glob [logs_folder]/session/**/*-session-*.md (post-v2.4.0: session logs live under the dedicated session/ subfolder; the -session- infix is no longer strictly required since session/ only contains session logs, but kept as defense-in-depth). Find the most recent session log (today or earlier). On Mondays this will typically be Friday's log unless there is already a session today. If no prior session exists, skip this section silently.

Read that session log. Extract main topics and any unchecked action items.

Briefing Content

Pull from two sources:

Source 1 : Tasks due today or overdue: Run onebrain task list --due-by today --json from the vault root and read data.tasks (each row: {file, line, text, due, done}, already fence-aware and open-only). Group: overdue first, then due today. Include the source note name (file).

Fallback (older CLI): if the command errors or returns non-zero, fall back to the legacy scan — Grep [projects_folder]/**/*.md and [inbox_folder]/*.md for - [ ] .*📅 \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}, filter to dates ≤ today, then group overdue first, then due today (same ordering as the verb path). (This path still includes fenced demo lines; upgrade the CLI to remove them.)

Source 2 : Open action items from last session: If morning mode: already loaded from recap step above; extract unchecked - [ ] items from the ## Action Items section. If normal mode: Glob [logs_folder]/session/**/*-session-*.md (post-v2.4.0: session logs live under the dedicated session/ subfolder; the -session- infix is no longer strictly required since session/ only contains session logs, but kept as defense-in-depth). Find the most recent session log (today or earlier). Read that log and extract unchecked - [ ] items from the ## Action Items section.

Display the Briefing

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
📅 Daily Briefing · Ddd DD Mon YYYY {period} · inbox N
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Last session (Ddd DD Mon): [1–2 sentence recap of topics + open items]
(morning mode only — skip if no prior session found)

Tasks due today:
  ⬜ Task description 📅 YYYY-MM-DD (from "Note Name")
  ⬜ Overdue task 📅 YYYY-MM-DD (overdue - from "Note Name")
  (+N more — /daily for full list)

Open from last session:
  ⬜ Action item text

Rules:

• {period} = morning / afternoon / evening
• Omit · inbox N if inbox count is 0
• Omit (+N more) line if 5 or fewer tasks
• Omit "Last session" block if not morning mode or no prior session exists

If both task sources are empty:

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
📅 Daily Briefing · Ddd DD Mon YYYY {period}
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
✅ Nothing on your plate today — clear!

Known Gotchas

• Monday morning: "last session" is typically Friday. When globbing for the most recent session log on a Monday morning, don't assume it's from today or yesterday — it may be 2-3 days ago. Always sort by filename (which contains the date) rather than file modification time.

• Tasks grep includes tasks in TASKS.md. On the verb path (onebrain task list), TASKS.md is excluded automatically. On the Grep fallback path only: TASKS.md contains Dataview query blocks, not real tasks — its content changes dynamically and may include false matches. Exclude TASKS.md from the task grep when using the fallback.