External Source → Obsidian Sync

Search an external knowledge source for articles relevant to current areas of focus and create corresponding notes in the Obsidian vault at ~/Documents/obsidian-vault/.

The Obsidian vault is the preferred workspace for user/model collaboration. The external source (e.g. Notion, Confluence, Google Docs) is upstream. This skill bridges the two — pulling relevant content into the vault where it becomes part of the interlinked knowledge graph.

Note: This skill template uses Notion as the example external source. Replace the MCP tool calls (mcp__notion__notion-search, mcp__notion__notion-fetch) with whatever API your external source exposes.

Procedure

1. Determine Areas of Focus

Identify what to search for by reading the vault:

• Read the most recent daily note(s) to find active work, backlog items, and session topics.
• Run a tag-line grep (^# across the vault) to get the current topic landscape.
• Derive 3–8 search queries from: active projects, services under development, open decisions, backlog items, and architectural themes.

If invoked with an explicit topic (e.g. /external-sync auth service), use that as the primary focus and derive 1–2 additional related queries from vault context.