Organizing Notes

Read references/safe-mutation-rules.md and follow that workflow. This file adds only what is specific to notes.

Works on an Obsidian vault or any folder of markdown files. The judgment is the same either way; only step 1 differs.

Why notes are harder than files

A vault is a graph, not a tree. Moving a note can break [[wikilinks]] pointing at it. Merging two notes destroys information if you pick wrong. There is no byte-identical duplicate test that works — near-duplicates are the actual problem.

So: this skill leans heavily on proposing and rarely on deleting.

Workflow

1. Find the notes