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Obsidian Integration Plugin

Obsidian integration for Claude Code: task management via the TaskNotes Plugin API, LLM-Wiki curation, and productivity intelligence — daily briefings, weekly retrospectives, project-pulse dashboards, and opportunity mining — all from within Claude Code.

Version 1.3.0

This plugin combines four complementary workflows for Obsidian users:

  1. Task management — through the TaskNotes Plugin HTTP API
  2. LLM-Wiki maintenance — curate a personal knowledge base from web clippings, AI chats, transcripts, and notes
  3. Daily & weekly intelligence — aggregate tasks, calendar, email, Linear, and GitHub into structured briefings
  4. Opportunity mining — surface product and project ideas from your knowledge base and repositories

Configuration

All skills in this plugin share a common configuration mechanism. Add the relevant keys to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md once, and every skill reads them automatically. Environment variables take precedence over CLAUDE.md values.

YAML
# ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md

# Obsidian plugin configuration
obsidian_vault: ~/Obsidian/MyVault        # Required for vault-writing skills
obsidian_daily_dir: Daily                 # Daily notes folder (relative to vault)
obsidian_template_daily: Templates/Daily Note.md  # Daily note template
obsidian_template_weekly: Templates/Weekly Review.md
obsidian_wiki_root: Wiki                  # Wiki root folder (relative to vault)
obsidian_companies_dir: Companies         # Stakeholder / customer notes folder
obsidian_ideas_dir: Ideas                 # Ideas output folder (relative to vault)
obsidian_context_dir:                     # Optional: strategic context notes folder
github_org: my-org                        # GitHub organisation (required for GitHub steps)
user_email: me@example.com               # Email for Gmail "needs reply" detection

Environment variable overrides:

Variable Corresponding key
OBSIDIAN_VAULT obsidian_vault
OBSIDIAN_DAILY_DIR obsidian_daily_dir
OBSIDIAN_TEMPLATE_DAILY obsidian_template_daily
OBSIDIAN_TEMPLATE_WEEKLY obsidian_template_weekly
GITHUB_ORG github_org
USER_EMAIL user_email

Vault auto-detection: If obsidian_vault is not set, the plugin searches $HOME up to five directory levels deep for a .obsidian folder. Set the key explicitly to avoid ambiguity when multiple vaults are present.


Features

Task Management

  • List tasks — "show my tasks"
  • Create tasks — "create a task for X"
  • Update tasks — change status, add details
  • Delete tasks — remove tasks
  • Work recommendations — "what should I work on?"
  • Vault-wide scanning — find all tasks in the entire vault with --scan

LLM-Wiki Workflow

  • Ingest sources — file web clippings, AI chats, transcripts, or raw notes under _raw/ and distil them into curated _wiki/ pages with bidirectional cross-references
  • Lint the wiki — weekly health check for frontmatter integrity, asymmetric links, stale claims, tag discipline, and missing hub pages
  • Migrate legacy notes — split hybrid legacy files into raw + wiki content with template-compliant frontmatter
  • Query the wiki — index-first search with citations and optional filing-back of the synthesis

Daily Briefing

  • Aggregates tasks from TaskNotes, Google Calendar, Gmail, Linear, and GitHub
  • Ranks items by urgency using a configurable priority scoring system
  • Writes a structured briefing to today's daily note
  • Creates the daily note from template if it does not exist

Weekly Review

  • Collects completed tasks, GitHub activity, calendar meetings, wiki learnings, and Linear progress
  • Writes a structured retrospective with a preserved Reflection section
  • Identifies open loops and proposes a prioritised focus list for the following week

Project Pulse

  • Categorises all GitHub repositories as Active / Dormant / Stalled
  • Lists open pull requests and assigned issues
  • Terminal output only — fast, no vault writes
  • Supports --stalled-only flag for focused cleanup sessions

Ideas — Opportunity Mining

  • Analyses the knowledge wiki, GitHub portfolio, stakeholder notes, and live market trends
  • Applies a cross-reference matrix to identify ideas where multiple signals align
  • Rates ideas by effort (S/M/L) and value (High/Medium/Low)
  • Writes a structured ideas document to the vault

Prerequisites

1. TaskNotes Plugin in Obsidian (for task skills)

  1. Open Obsidian Community Plugins
  2. Search for "TaskNotes" and install
  3. Enable the plugin
  4. Enable HTTP API in plugin settings (default port: 8080)

2. GitHub CLI (for GitHub-dependent skills)

Bash
brew install gh && gh auth login

3. MCP integrations (optional, for full briefing capability)

The today, weekly-review, and ideas skills can use the following MCP connections when available: Google Calendar, Gmail, Linear. Each integration degrades gracefully when not configured — only that data source is skipped.


Installation

Via Marketplace

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{
  "enabledPlugins": {
    "obsidian@talent-factory": true
  }
}

Local Testing

Bash
claude --plugin-dir ./plugins/obsidian

Usage

Natural Language

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show my tasks
create a task to finish the landing page
what should I work on?
what's on my plate today?
prepare weekly review
show my GitHub project status
what could I build next?

Direct Skill Invocation

Text Only
/obsidian:tasknotes
/obsidian:today
/obsidian:weekly-review
/obsidian:project-pulse
/obsidian:project-pulse --stalled-only
/obsidian:ideas
/obsidian:wiki-ingest
/obsidian:wiki-query
/obsidian:wiki-lint
/obsidian:wiki-migrate-file

Skills

tasknotes

Main skill for task management via the TaskNotes HTTP API. Activates on phrases such as "show my tasks", "create a task", "what should I work on", or "mark as done".

Key features: - --scan flag: scans the entire vault filesystem to find all tasks - --all flag: includes completed and cancelled tasks in listings - Automatic vault detection via the .obsidian folder - Smart sorting by scheduled and due dates

today

Produces a prioritised daily briefing from all configured sources and writes it to today's Obsidian daily note. Activates on "what's on my plate today", "daily briefing", or "morning briefing".

Sources: TaskNotes · Google Calendar · Gmail · Linear · GitHub

weekly-review

Writes a structured weekly retrospective to the vault. Collects completed tasks, shipped code, meetings, wiki learnings, and Linear progress. Preserves the Reflection section on subsequent runs. Activates on "weekly review", "what did I accomplish this week", or "summarise my week".

Sources: TaskNotes · GitHub · Google Calendar · Linear · Wiki log

project-pulse

Quick status snapshot of all GitHub repositories in the configured organisation. Categorises repos as Active / Dormant / Stalled. Terminal output only. Activates on "show me my repos", "project overview", "GitHub pulse", or "which projects are active".

Requires: github_org configuration key.

ideas

Mines the knowledge wiki, GitHub portfolio, stakeholder notes, and market trends to surface new product and project ideas. Writes a structured document to the vault. Activates on "what could I build next", "give me project ideas", or "opportunity mining".

wiki-ingest

Files a new source (web clipping, AI chat export, raw note, transcript) under _raw/, distils it into one or more _wiki/ pages, updates the index and log, and pulls bidirectional cross-references. Activates on "ingest this source" or "digest this clipping into the wiki".

wiki-lint

Weekly structural and content health check across _wiki/ and _raw/. Detects frontmatter issues, broken or asymmetric cross-references, stale claims, tag discipline violations, missing hub pages, and orphan content.

wiki-migrate-file

Migrates legacy files from outside _wiki/ and _raw/ into the LLM-Wiki schema. Cluster mode handles thematic groups in a single confirmation.

wiki-query

Answers a question against the curated _wiki/ via index-first search and full-text fallback. Returns a synthesised answer with citations and optionally files the synthesis back as a new wiki page.


LLM-Wiki Vault Layout

The wiki skills expect the following structure (default paths shown):

  • <wiki-root>/_raw/ — raw source files, organised by type subfolder
  • <wiki-root>/_wiki/ — distilled wiki pages
  • <wiki-root>/_wiki/index.md — section-based index
  • <wiki-root>/_wiki/log.md — append-only operation log
  • <wiki-root>/_wiki/templates/ — frontmatter templates

Default <wiki-root> is Wiki/ relative to the vault root. Override via obsidian_wiki_root: in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. The migration backlog soft cap (default: 50 files) is configurable via wiki_migration_cap: <n>.


Project Structure

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obsidian/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── plugin.json
├── skills/
│   ├── tasknotes/
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   └── scripts/
│   │       └── tasks.py
│   ├── today/
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   ├── references/
│   │   │   └── priority-guide.md
│   │   └── scripts/
│   │       └── update_daily_note.py
│   ├── weekly-review/
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   └── references/
│   │       └── weekly-cadence.md
│   ├── ideas/
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   └── references/
│   │       └── idea-signals.md
│   ├── project-pulse/
│   │   └── SKILL.md
│   ├── wiki-ingest/
│   │   └── SKILL.md
│   ├── wiki-lint/
│   │   └── SKILL.md
│   ├── wiki-migrate-file/
│   │   └── SKILL.md
│   └── wiki-query/
│       └── SKILL.md
└── README.md

Changelog

Version 1.3.0 (2026-05-08)

  • Added today skill: daily briefing from TaskNotes, Calendar, Gmail, Linear, GitHub
  • Added weekly-review skill: structured weekly retrospective to vault
  • Added project-pulse skill: GitHub repository status snapshot
  • Added ideas skill: opportunity mining from wiki, GitHub, stakeholders, and market
  • Added update_daily_note.py script: configurable note create/update utility
  • All new skills use CLAUDE.md configuration keys with env var overrides and auto-detection
  • Version bump to 1.3.0

Version 1.2.0 (2026-05-01)

  • Added LLM-Wiki workflow: wiki-ingest, wiki-lint, wiki-migrate-file, wiki-query
  • Updated plugin description and keywords

Version 1.1.2 (2026-02-27)

  • Added keywords and license fields to plugin.json
  • Fixed author email to support@talent-factory.ch
  • Improved tasknotes skill description


License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.


Made with care by Talent Factory GmbH