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obsidian-capture

The obsidian-capture command quickly saves ideas or thoughts from Claude conversations into an Obsidian vault, automatically appending to related existing notes in the Ideas folder or creating new ones with structured metadata. Use this when you want zero-friction capture of discussion insights, with automatic daily note integration and AI-optimized formatting including wikilinks, confidence markers, and source preservation for future retrieval.

Install in Claude Code
Copy
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain/HEAD/commands/obsidian-capture.md -o ~/.claude/commands/obsidian-capture.md
Then start a new Claude Code session; the slash command loads automatically.

obsidian-capture.md

Use the obsidian-second-brain skill. Execute `/obsidian-capture $ARGUMENTS`:

The optional argument is the idea text. If not provided, pull the most recent idea or thought from the conversation.

1. Read `_CLAUDE.md` first if it exists in the vault root
2. Take the argument as the idea, or pull from recent conversation context
3. Search `Ideas/` for a related existing note - if found, append to it
4. If new: create `Ideas/Title.md` with minimal frontmatter (`date`, `tags: [idea]`)
5. Write the idea with any supporting context from the conversation
6. Add a brief mention in today's daily note under an Ideas or Captures section

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**AI-first rule:** Every note created or updated by this command MUST follow `references/ai-first-rules.md` - `## For future Claude` preamble, rich frontmatter (`type`, `date`, `tags`, `ai-first: true`, plus type-specific fields), recency markers per external claim, mandatory `[[wikilinks]]` for every person/project/concept referenced, sources preserved verbatim with URLs inline, and confidence levels where applicable. The vault is for future-Claude retrieval - not human reading.

**Anti-fabrication:** Search exhaustively before claiming any note, person, or file is absent - false absence is the most common failure mode - and never invent facts, entities, or dates (mark unknowns as `TBD`). See the anti-fabrication and search-completeness hard rules in `references/ai-first-rules.md`.