obsidian-daily
The obsidian-daily command creates or updates a daily note for today by assembling calendar events from a connected Google Calendar MCP, pulling overdue and due-today tasks from kanban boards marked with date tags, injecting relevant context from the current conversation, and summarizing any overnight consolidation work logged by a nightly agent. Use this command each morning to establish a unified view of the day's obligations, scheduled commitments, and carryover work without overwriting existing content.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain/HEAD/commands/obsidian-daily.md -o ~/.claude/commands/obsidian-daily.mdobsidian-daily.md
Use the obsidian-second-brain skill. Execute `/obsidian-daily`:
1. Read `_CLAUDE.md` first if it exists in the vault root
2. Read `CRITICAL_FACTS.md` for timezone
3. Check if `wiki/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md` exists for today
- If not: read `templates/Daily Note.md`, fill in date fields, create the file
- If yes: update existing note (inject, don't overwrite)
4. Pull calendar events (if a Google Calendar MCP is connected):
- Find the primary calendar with `mcp__claude_ai_Google_Calendar__list_calendars`, then fetch today's events with `mcp__claude_ai_Google_Calendar__list_events` (these are the tool names exposed by the claude.ai Google Calendar connector; if your calendar MCP namespaces its tools differently, use that server's `list_events` equivalent)
- Add a ## Calendar section to the daily note with:
- Time, title, attendees for each event
- For meetings with known entities: link to their `[[Person Name]]` pages
- If no calendar MCP is connected, skip silently (don't error)
5. Pull overdue and due-today tasks from kanban boards:
- Scan `boards/` for items with `@{date}` that match today or are past due
- Add to the daily note's Focus section with priority markers
6. Scan the current conversation for anything relevant to today:
- Tasks in progress, people mentioned, decisions made, what's being worked on
- Pre-fill or update the note's sections with that context
7. Check the operation log for last night's sleeptime consolidation (if `Logs/` exists: read yesterday's `Logs/YYYY-MM-DD.md`; otherwise read `log.md`):
- If the nightly agent ran, summarize what it did (reconciled, synthesized, healed)
- Add a brief "Overnight changes" note so the user knows what happened while they slept
8. Return the path of the daily note when done.
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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`.>
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