Quotidien Obsidian

description: Create or update today's daily note - pulls calendar events, overdue tasks, and conversation context

category: vault

triggers_en: ["todays note", "create todays daily", "open daily", "today daily note"]

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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. Return the path of the daily note when done.

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.