Vault Journal

Vault Journal

Log structured research entries to today's daily note. Automatically discovers related vault projects and wikilinks them.

Workflow

1. Get the user's entry content — what they learned, worked on, or want to capture. Accept freeform text.

2. Read today's daily note:

   obsidian daily:read
   

   Note whether it exists and what sections are already present.

3. If the daily note is empty or missing, create an initial structure first:

   obsidian create path="YYYY-MM-DD.md" content="---\ndescription: Daily research log\ndate: YYYY-MM-DD\n---\n\n# YYYY-MM-DD\n\n## Research Log\n" silent
   

   Use today's actual date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

4. Search for related vault projects using keywords extracted from the user's entry:

   obsidian search query="<keywords>" limit=10
   

   Run 1-2 searches with different keyword combinations. Extract matching folder names from results.

5. Compose the journal entry:

   ### HH:MM — Topic Title
   User's content here (cleaned up, concise).
   **Related:** [[folder_name/README]], [[another_folder/gemini3_summary]]
   

   • Use current time for HH:MM
   • Keep the entry focused — 1-4 sentences max
   • Only include related links if you found genuinely relevant folders (don't force it)
   • If a source URL was mentioned, add **Source:** <url>

6. Append the entry:

   obsidian daily:append content="### HH:MM — Topic Title\nContent here.\n**Related:** [[folder/README]]\n"
   

7. Confirm by reading back the daily note or reporting what was appended.

Tips

• Extract 2-4 specific keywords from the user's entry for search (e.g., "agent teams parallel" not just "agents")
• Link to gemini3_summary.txt for content-summary folders, README.md for code project folders
• If the user says "log this conversation" or similar, summarize the current conversation's key insight as the entry
• Multiple entries in one session are fine — each gets its own ### HH:MM block