SKILL

Capture a quick note into Inbox/ in the Obsidian knowledge base.

The inbox is for fleeting captures that will be processed weekly. Notes here are allowed to be thin. Do not try to promote them to Notes/ or link them into topic hubs - that happens later during weekly processing.

Steps

1. Read the user’s input. It may be a sentence, a paragraph, a few bullet points, or a rough idea. Don’t expand, rewrite, or editorialise. Capture what they said.

2. Derive a title. Pick a short, descriptive title (3-7 words) that reflects the content. Avoid generic titles like “Note” or “Thought”. If the user provided a title explicitly, use it verbatim.

3. Check for collisions. Glob Inbox/<Title>.md. If it exists, append a disambiguator like <Title> 2.md.

4. Create the note at Inbox/<Title>.md. Read Templates/Main Note.md and use it as the base structure. Replace {{date}} and {{time}} with the current date and time. Add the user’s content after the frontmatter, lightly formatted as prose or bullets.

5. Confirm the filename and path to the user.

Rules

• Use the current date and time (the environment provides today’s date).
• Leave tags: and source: empty unless the user provided them.
• Do not wikilink, do not search for related notes, do not suggest destinations. The weekly processing pass handles that.
• If the input contains a URL, do not invoke the bookmark skill - bookmarks are a separate flow and should be triggered explicitly by the user.
• Keep formatting minimal. Prose stays prose, bullets stay bullets. No added headings beyond what the user wrote.