Vault (Obsidian Notes)

Location: ~/Documents/Notes/

Principles

1. Obsidian vault for documents - Detailed notes, task logs, project context
2. Unix tools for fast search - ripgrep (rg), fd, or mdfind for finding content efficiently
3. WikiLinks for connections - Build traversable knowledge graph
4. ALWAYS: New tasks should be in an open state

Templates

Templates are in the skill directory, not the notes directory:

• .claude/skills/vault/templates/knowledge-note.md - For knowledge notes
• .claude/skills/vault/templates/task.md - For new tasks

Bash Commands

# List in-progress tasks
rg --type md -l "^status:\s*in-progress" ~/Documents/Notes/Projects/*/Tasks

# Find project directory (handles YYYY[-MM] prefix)
fd -t d -d 1 -i "<project>" ~/Documents/Notes/Projects

# List project task files
fd -e md . ~/Documents/Notes/Projects/*<project>*/Tasks

# Find files by name
fd -e md -i "<name>" ~/Documents/Notes

# Recently modified (last 7 days)
fd -e md --changed-within 7d ~/Documents/Notes

# Find with Spotlight index
mdfind -interpret -onlyin ~/Documents/Notes "<concept>"

Timestamps

Always use real timestamps, never placeholders:

# For task filename: YYYY-MM-DD HHMMSS
date +"%Y-%m-%d %H%M%S"

# For log entry header: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"

# For frontmatter (ISO-8601)
date -Iseconds

Task File Path

~/Documents/Notes/Projects/<YYYY[-MM] Project>/Tasks/<YYYY-MM-DD HHMMSS> <Title>.md

Linking Strategy

Link if it improves the note, not just because it matches a term.

What to search for

Linking workflow

1. Semantic discovery — mdfind -interpret for related concepts
2. Backlinks — rg "\[\[<concept>" to find what links to your topics
3. Tags overlap — rg "^ - <tag>$" for notes sharing tags
4. Add discovered notes as WikiLinks using breadcrumb pattern: [[Parent]] | [[Related]]

Capture Heuristics

Worth capturing when:

Where to capture:

Note Locations

What NOT to include

• DO NOT include changed files