alexeyshishin obsidian-refactor-inbox
The full processing cycle for a note from 00. Входящие/: typing → frontmatter → links → moving into PARA.
Base rules (structure, tags, frontmatter, style) — in .claude/rules/. This covers only what's specific to inbox processing.
Related skills
| When | What to use |
|---|---|
| Just want to inspect the inbox first | obsidian-inbox-review |
| Enrich frontmatter without moving | obsidian-enrich-note |
| Split a large note into parts | obsidian-split-note |
Algorithm
1. Read the note and determine its type
Structural tag + folder — from the tags.md table (the "Structural tags" section). Summary:
| Content type | Tag | Folder |
|---|---|---|
| Atomic thought / concept | #thought |
03. Ресурсы/<Тема>/База знаний/ |
| MOC / overview map | #moc |
02. Сферы/07. Карты/ |
| Person / contact | #person |
No folder currently exists — ask the user where it should live |
| Book / article / video | #book / #article / #video |
03. Ресурсы/<Тема>/<Источник>/ — one subfolder per source |
| Project | #project |
01. Проекты/<Проект>/ |
| Meeting / 1:1 | #meeting |
02. Сферы/02. Работа/ |
| Conference / talk notes | #conference |
No folder currently exists — ask the user where it should live |
| Journal entry | #journal/daily |
05. Дневник/ (flat, filename DD-MM-YYYY.md) |
| No longer relevant | #archive |
04. Архив/ |
2. Update frontmatter
Templates and fields — .claude/rules/note-types-frontmatter.md. The note must have at least:
aliases— synonyms, English variant, abbreviations (seeenrich-notebelow)tags— structural tag + domain (seetags.md)up,down,other,links— links (rules incontent-style.md)
3. Enrich aliases and links
This is a sub-task — proceed as obsidian-enrich-note would:
- Find related notes in
02. Сферы/07. Карты/and the relevant03. Ресурсы/<Тема>/База знаний/ - For people — there's no dedicated folder yet; search the whole vault for an existing note about them before creating a new one
up— the parent topic / MOC,down— what this note gives rise to,other— horizontal linkslinks— external URLs only
# Find notes on a topic
rg -l "KEYWORD" "03. Ресурсы/" | head -20
4. Move into PARA
mv "00. Входящие/Note.md" "03. Ресурсы/<Тема>/База знаний/Note.md"
5. Remove #inbox/review
Remove it from tags (if present).
6. Archiving
Never delete notes. If a note is outdated:
- Move it to
04. Архив/ - Add the
#archivetag - Preserve all links and connections
Result checklist
- The
#inbox/reviewtag is removed - A structural tag is added (see
tags.md) -
aliasesare filled in (synonyms / EN version) -
up— wikilinks or justifiably empty -
down— wikilinks or justifiably empty -
other— wikilinks to adjacent topics / people / MOCs -
linkscontains only external URLs (not wikilinks) - The file is moved to the correct PARA folder
- All wikilinks point to existing files