| name | obsidian-daily |
| description | Show or open today's Claude activity note in the Obsidian vault. Use when someone says "show today's Obsidian note", "open daily note", "what did I do today", "obsidian daily", "today's activity", "what did Claude do today". Read-only — does not modify any files.
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Obsidian Daily
View today's Claude activity note. This skill is read-only — it never dispatches
obsidian-writer.
Step 1 — Check configuration
Read OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH from the environment:
- Bash:
bash -c 'echo $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH'
- PowerShell:
$env:OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH
If empty, stop and tell the user:
"OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH is not set. Re-run install.sh and provide your vault
path when prompted, or add it manually to ~/.claude/settings.json under
the env key."
Also read:
OBSIDIAN_PROJECTS_FOLDER (empty string if unset)CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR (or fall back to current working directory) — used to compute the repo slug
Step 2 — Compute the daily note path
Today's local date in YYYY-MM-DD format.
- Compute
project_slug: basename of CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR (or cwd), lowercase,
non-alphanumeric characters replaced with hyphens, max 30 characters.
- Use
OBSIDIAN_PROJECTS_FOLDER if set, otherwise default to Claude/Projects.
effective_folder may be multi-segment (e.g. Claude/Projects) — treat each
/-delimited segment as a path component.- Daily note path:
<OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH>/<effective_folder>/<project_slug>/daily/<YYYY-MM-DD>.md
Step 3 — Read today's daily note
Use the Read tool to read the file at the computed path.
Step 4 — Display
Show the file contents inline in the conversation.
If the file does not exist, say:
"No activity logged today yet for this project. Session notes appear here
automatically when Claude Code stops; use /obsidian-capture to save a note
or /obsidian-recap to synthesize a daily recap."
Step 5 — Open in Obsidian (optional)
If OBSIDIAN_CLI_MODE is "rest-api", attempt to open the note in Obsidian's
editor. Compute the vault-relative path (strip the vault root prefix, use forward
slashes, URL-encode the result), then call:
curl -sk "https://127.0.0.1:${OBSIDIAN_REST_API_PORT:-27124}/open/<url-encoded-vault-relative-path>"
If this fails, or if CLI mode is "filesystem", skip silently — the note was
already displayed inline in step 4.
Gotchas
- This skill is strictly read-only. Do not dispatch obsidian-writer under any
circumstance.
- The date must be today's local date, not UTC.
- If the vault path contains spaces, URL-encode it properly in the curl command.
- Project slug computation:
basename(cwd).toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '-').slice(0, 30)
