Agent skill

obsidian-daily

Manage Obsidian Daily Notes via obsidian-cli. Create and open daily notes, append entries (journals, logs, tasks, links), read past notes by date, and search vault content. Handles relative dates like "yesterday", "last Friday", "3 days ago".

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Install this agent skill to your Project

npx add-skill https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/tree/main/skills/development/obsidian-daily

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Additional technical details for this skill

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SKILL.md

Obsidian Daily Notes

Interact with Obsidian Daily Notes: create notes, append entries, read by date, and search content.

Setup

Check if a default vault is configured:

bash
obsidian-cli print-default --path-only 2>/dev/null && echo "OK" || echo "NOT_SET"

If NOT_SET, ask the user:

  1. Vault name (required)
  2. Daily notes folder (default: vault root, common: Daily Notes, Journal, daily)
  3. Date format (default: YYYY-MM-DD)

Configure the vault:

bash
obsidian-cli set-default "VAULT_NAME"

Obsidian Daily Notes plugin defaults:

  • Date format: YYYY-MM-DD
  • New file location: Vault root
  • Template file location: (none)

Date Handling

Get current date:

bash
date +%Y-%m-%d

Cross-platform relative dates (GNU first, BSD fallback):

Reference Command
Today date +%Y-%m-%d
Yesterday date -d yesterday +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d
Last Friday date -d "last friday" +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-friday +%Y-%m-%d
3 days ago date -d "3 days ago" +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-3d +%Y-%m-%d
Next Monday date -d "next monday" +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v+monday +%Y-%m-%d

Commands

Open/Create Today's Note

bash
obsidian-cli daily

Opens today's daily note in Obsidian, creating it from template if it doesn't exist.

Append Entry

bash
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "ENTRY_TEXT")" --append

With custom folder:

bash
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "Daily Notes/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "ENTRY_TEXT")" --append

Read Note

Today:

bash
obsidian-cli print "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md"

Specific date:

bash
obsidian-cli print "2025-01-10.md"

Relative date (yesterday):

bash
obsidian-cli print "$(date -d yesterday +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d).md"

Search Content

bash
obsidian-cli search-content "TERM"

Search Notes

Interactive fuzzy finder:

bash
obsidian-cli search

Specific Vault

Add --vault "NAME" to any command:

bash
obsidian-cli print "2025-01-10.md" --vault "Work"

Example Output

markdown
- Went to the doctor
- [ ] Buy groceries
- https://github.com/anthropics/skills
- 15:45 This is a log line

Use Cases

Journal entry:

bash
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- Went to the doctor")" --append

Task:

bash
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- [ ] Buy groceries")" --append

Link:

bash
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- https://github.com/anthropics/skills")" --append

Timestamped log:

bash
obsidian-cli daily && obsidian-cli create "$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" --content "$(printf '\n%s' "- $(date +%H:%M) This is a log line")" --append

Read last Friday:

bash
obsidian-cli print "$(date -d 'last friday' +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -v-friday +%Y-%m-%d).md"

Search for "meeting":

bash
obsidian-cli search-content "meeting"

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