Obsidian Daily Log

A discipline for keeping an Obsidian daily note current without corrupting it. The skill is generic — your vault layout, frontmatter, and section list are learned from your own most recent daily note, which is treated as the canonical template.

Setup

Tell the skill once where your daily notes live by adding a memory or by setting the path in your project CLAUDE.md:

Obsidian daily notes live at: <absolute path to vault folder containing daily notes>
Daily note filename pattern: <e.g. YYYY/MMMM/YYYY-MM-DD.md>

If no path is set, ask the user before doing anything else. Never guess.

The canonical reference

Before any write, read the most recent existing daily note in the vault. That file is the single source of truth for: