obsidian-contacts

name	obsidian-contacts
description	Extract people from meeting notes or emails and create/update their vault person notes. Triggers on: extract contacts, log meeting notes, process this email, update contacts from this.

Obsidian Contacts

Identify all named people in pasted content, then create or update their People/<Name>.md vault notes.

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Trigger Phrases

Activate when the user says any of:

• "extract contacts"
• "log meeting notes"
• "process this email"
• "update contacts from this"

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Step 1: Verify Vault

Check that $VAULT_PATH is set. If not, tell the user: "VAULT_PATH is not set — run bash install.sh --obsidian first."

Read $VAULT_PATH/Templates/person.md to get the person note structure.

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Step 2: Extract Named People

Scan the pasted content and identify all distinct named individuals (full names where available, first-name-only as fallback). Ignore generic roles without names (e.g., "the manager", "a colleague").

For each name, determine a canonical filename: People/<Firstname-Lastname>.md — title case, hyphens between name parts, no other punctuation.

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Step 3: Create or Update Each Person Note

For each person identified:

If $VAULT_PATH/People/<Name>.md does NOT exist:

1. Read the person template from $VAULT_PATH/Templates/person.md
2. Fill in all {{placeholder}} fields:
   • name — full name as it appears in the content
   • role — inferred role/title from content, or leave as {{role}} if unknown
   • company — inferred company/org from content, or leave as {{company}} if unknown
   • first-met — today's date (YYYY-MM-DD)
   • The Interactions section: today's date + a one-line summary from the content
3. Write the filled template to $VAULT_PATH/People/<Name>.md
4. Track this person as created

If $VAULT_PATH/People/<Name>.md EXISTS:

1. Read the existing note
2. Append a new line under ## Interactions: - YYYY-MM-DD — <one-line summary from content>
3. Write the updated file back (never modify Background or Notes sections)
4. Track this person as updated

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Step 4: Link to Relevant Project or Decision Notes

If the pasted content mentions a specific project or decision that has a corresponding vault note:

• In each person note, add a [[wikilink]] reference in the Notes section if one doesn't already exist.

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Step 5: Confirm

After processing all people, reply with a summary table:

Contacts processed:
- [[Firstname-Lastname]] — created / updated
- [[Firstname-Lastname]] — created / updated

One line per person. If no named people were found, say: "No named individuals found in the provided content."

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Rules

• Never overwrite or clear existing ## Background or ## Notes sections — only append to ## Interactions.
• Never ask the user follow-up questions before processing; use context from the pasted content.
• Use today's date for all new Interactions entries.
• Wikilinks use note name only (no folder prefix): [[Firstname-Lastname]].