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name: obsidian-daily

description: Create and manage Obsidian daily notes. Use when asked to write daily notes, record today's work, log session activities, or create daily summaries. Triggers on keywords like "daily note", "today's log", "write daily", "daily summary".

Obsidian Daily Note

Configuration

Set these to match your vault:

• Base path: path to your DAILY folder inside the vault
• Sync: adjust if using OneDrive / iCloud / Obsidian Sync

File Naming

YYYY-MM-DD_short-summary.md

Examples:

• 2026-02-18_fix-env-gsudo-chrome.md
• 2026-02-19_maibotalks-app-submit.md

The title should briefly summarize the day's main activities.

Template

# YYYY-MM-DD (Day) — Daily Note

## Completed Today

### [Category]
- **Task** → Result
  - Details

## Tomorrow's Actions

- [ ] Action 1
- [ ] Action 2

Category emoji prefixes: 🔧 Dev, 📱 Mobile, 🚀 Deploy, 🔗 Integration, 📝 Docs, 💡 Ideas, 📋 Planning

Encoding

CRITICAL on Windows: Never use Set-Content. Always use:

[System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($path, $content, [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8)

Workflow

1. Collect today's activities from session context
2. Group by category
3. Generate filename with descriptive title
4. Write using UTF-8 encoding
5. Include tomorrow's action items from pending tasks

Vault Structure (PARA)

• 00.DAILY/ — daily notes
• 01.PROJECT/ — project dashboards and kanban
• 02.AREA/ — ongoing areas of interest
• 03.RESOURCES/ — reference material
• 04.ARCHIVE/ — archived notes

Project docs live in PROJECT_ROOT/docs/ with A/D/I/T prefixes (Analysis / Design / Implementation / Test).