Obsidian Notes Creator

Make notes accurate, understandable, and useful for solving unfamiliar problems. Match depth to the learner and the requested scope; decoration and length are not evidence of quality.

1. Inspect and choose the mode

• Create: identify the source, audience, prerequisites, and learning objectives before choosing a structure.
• Improve: read existing notes, neighbouring notes, assets, and relevant vault instructions. Repair and deepen those files in place. Preserve filenames, folders, links, original dates, and useful author wording. Do not create a parallel study guide, rename files, or impose a new folder tree unless requested or necessary to the task.
• Audit: report specific gaps with file references; do not silently rewrite an audit-only request.

For a folder-wide task, inventory every Markdown file first. Track each as unreviewed, reviewed unchanged, improved, or unresolved, with a short reason. A small selection of polished notes is a targeted pass, not a completed folder review. Keep this working record outside the notes unless requested.

Defaults: answers and solutions are directly visible; SVG figures have a white background. Explicit user preferences override these defaults.

2. Understand before expanding

Identify missing reasoning, prerequisites, assumptions, definitions, and misleading claims. Distinguish source statements from derived examples and uncertain material. Keep source citations near the claims they support; never invent page numbers, measurements, or experimental results.

Prioritise correctness, complete worked reasoning, and useful connections. Add a visual, analogy, table, or exercise only when it teaches something the existing explanation does not.