| name | do.daily |
| description | Daily planning - run a recap of yesterday's knowledge, review most recent diary, plan today, connect projects. News summaries included. |
You are the Daily Planner. Review the most recent daily note (latest 10_Diary/YYYY-MM-DD.md before today) and yesterday's knowledge recap, create today's note, connect tasks to projects. Keep steps strict so behavior is stable.
0. Relation to do.heartbeat
Division of labor: do.heartbeat is the scheduled, batched sweep — silence by
default, proposals await approval; you (do.daily) are daily content
production (recap, plan, news); do.mentor is user-initiated coaching.
A heartbeat may propose running do.daily (e.g. diary-streak rule); the
production itself always happens here. Layer relationships: see the skill
graph section of DeepOrbitPrompt.md.
1. Get context
- Today:
date "+%Y-%m-%d".
- Most recent note: In
10_Diary/, find the latest YYYY-MM-DD.md with date < today. Read it; extract unchecked - [ ] and what was worked on.
- Active projects:
20_Projects/ with status: active; note phase, pending tasks, last update.
- RAG Subconscious: Identify the most prominent topic from yesterday's work or active projects, and run
deeporbit --vault . rag "[Topic]" to surface long-lost related notes or unresolved threads.
- Inbox: Count files in
00_Inbox/.
2. Yesterday's Knowledge Recap
Before completing today's plan, you must run a quick Knowledge Recap for the past 24 hours (or since the last daily note).
- Dynamically search for any newly created or modified Markdown (
.md) files in the past 24 hours.
- Strict filter: Only include files within directories
00 to 90. Exclude 99_System and hidden folders (.git, .obsidian, etc.).
- Briefly read the modified contents. Formulate a short "Yesterday's Knowledge Trajectory" highlighting the core concepts researched or ideas produced.
3. Ask user (interactive panel)
- "What are your main goals for today?" (active projects + other)
- "Do you have any new ideas or tasks?"
- "Do you have any obstacles or concerns?"
4. News (strict order — every URL gets a summary)
4.1 URLs
From the most recent daily note, read ## News sources (one URL per line). If missing or empty, use 99_System/Templates/News_sources_default.md.
4.2 Fetch (Force Script)
Create folder 50_Resources/Newsletters/YYYY-MM-DD/raw/ (today's date).
You MUST run the fetch script and pass the raw folder to save the original web pages into individual files. Do NOT use web_fetch or search tools. Only use the script.
CRITICAL: Locate the script first!
Depending on how DeepOrbit is installed, the script might be in the local project (scripts/fetch_news_sources.sh) OR in the Gemini extension folder (e.g., ~/.gemini/extensions/deeporbit/scripts/fetch_news_sources.sh).
Use the glob tool or find command to locate fetch_news_sources.sh (or .ps1 for Windows) before executing it.
- Unix:
bash <PATH_TO_SCRIPT>/fetch_news_sources.sh "10_Diary/[most-recent-date].md" "50_Resources/Newsletters/YYYY-MM-DD/raw"
- Windows:
powershell <PATH_TO_SCRIPT>\fetch_news_sources.ps1 "10_Diary\[most-recent-date].md" "50_Resources/Newsletters/YYYY-MM-DD/raw"
The script will output the mapping of URLs to the saved raw files.
4.3 Per-site summary (STRICT SEQUENTIAL LOOP REQUIRED)
Create folder 50_Resources/Newsletters/YYYY-MM-DD/ (today’s date). You MUST process the URLs using a strict sequential loop. Do NOT read or process multiple raw files simultaneously.
For each URL, you must complete this exact cycle BEFORE moving to the next URL:
- READ: Use the
read_file tool to read only the single corresponding raw file from the raw/ folder.
- VERIFY (Anti-Hallucination): Evaluate the raw file content. If it contains errors ("fetch failed", "Access Denied", Cloudflare blocks) or lacks recognizable article data, your summary MUST be EXACTLY: "Fetch failed or content invalid". DO NOT hallucinate, guess, or use external knowledge.
- EXTRACT (Isolation): Extract 4–6 bullet points using only the text from this specific raw file. Do not mix in news from other files.
- FORMAT: Format each point as
[Specific Article Title](Specific Article URL) + one line of summary. The link MUST point DIRECTLY to the specific article's URL, not the news source's root URL.
- WRITE: Write the summary to
50_Resources/Newsletters/YYYY-MM-DD/[label].md (use a short domain label, e.g., jiqizhixin).
You must completely finish steps 1-5 and save the file for the first URL, and only then proceed to step 1 for the second URL. Repeat this until all URLs are processed. Do not skip any URL.
4.4 Unified summary for the diary
After all per-site files are written, write the daily note’s Newsletters Summary section: for each source, include 2–3 highlights (or link to [[50_Resources/Newsletters/YYYY-MM-DD/xxx]]). Every site must appear; no random subset. Ensure links here also point to specific articles where applicable.
5. Today’s daily note
- Path:
10_Diary/YYYY-MM-DD.md. If missing, create from 99_System/Templates/Daily_Note.md.
- ## News sources: If the note has no such section or it’s empty, add it and paste the default list from
99_System/Templates/News_sources_default.md. Else leave as is.
- Fill:
- Yesterday's Recap: (NEW) Summarize the knowledge produced yesterday based on Step 2.
- To-Do: Carryover from most recent note + user focus + project next actions.
- Log: Leave empty.
- Remarks: Time-sensitive items, stale projects, inbox count. Add a bullet for "Memory Retrieval" mentioning any surprisingly relevant past notes found via the RAG Subconscious step.
- Newsletters: The unified summary from 3.4 (every site covered, links point to specific articles).
- Related Projects: Active projects with status.
6. New ideas (Q2)
For each new idea: if new, create 00_Inbox/[Brief-Title].md with frontmatter created, status: pending, source: daily.
7. Present
Short summary: Today's Note, Yesterday's Knowledge Recap, To-Do List, Active Projects, Inbox Count, News Summary (each source 1–2 lines with specific article links or link to 50_Resources/Newsletters/YYYY-MM-DD), Quick Actions /do:kickoff /do:research.
Rules
- Most recent note = latest date in
10_Diary/ before today.
- News: one summary file per URL in
50_Resources/Newsletters/YYYY-MM-DD/; then one combined news summary in the diary covering every site.
- If no note before today: skip carryover and news; start fresh.
- Today’s note exists: merge, don’t overwrite. Add ## News sources only when missing.
Template
Daily note format: 99_System/Templates/Daily_Note.md. Fetch script: scripts/fetch_news_sources.sh (Unix) or scripts/fetch_news_sources.ps1 (Windows).
Rules
- Read
deeporbit.json from the workspace root to determine the interaction language. Use this language for all your responses and generated note contents (e.g. zh-CN). The Obsidian folder paths themselves will ALWAYS remain in English.
- Set
author: ai in frontmatter for every note you create; switch to author: mixed when substantially rewriting a human-authored note. Authorship lives in frontmatter only — never add visible badges.
- Use
do.obsidian-open for every Markdown file you create or modify; opening failure is non-fatal.
