Use this skill when the user is discussing daily research work, TODOs, plans, standups, meetings, milestones, or general project progress that should be reflected in Obsidian daily notes, plan notes, and hub updates.
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Use obsidian-research-log to record [project updates] in [Obsidian vault], preserving daily chronology and routing durable decisions and TODOs to canonical notes.
Required inputs
[project updates]
[Obsidian vault]
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SKILL.md
name: obsidian-research-logdescription: Use this skill when the user is discussing daily research work, TODOs, plans, standups, meetings, milestones, or general project progress that should be reflected in Obsidian daily notes, plan notes, and hub updates.
Obsidian Research Log
Use this skill to keep project planning and daily progress synchronized.
Role in the workflow
This is a supporting skill under obsidian-project-memory.
Prefer a small number of durable updates over creating extra planning folders.
Default targets
Daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md
01-Plan.md
00-Hub.md recent progress block
.claude/project-memory/<project_id>.md
Rules
Convert vague TODOs into concrete checkbox lists in 01-Plan.md when they become durable commitments.
Preserve chronology in Daily/: append dated blocks instead of rewriting history.
Link daily notes to touched experiments, papers, results, and writing notes when the destination is already canonical.
If a meeting note is only temporary, keep it in Daily/ first.
If meeting output becomes durable project knowledge, summarize and route it into Knowledge/, Writing/, or 01-Plan.md instead of creating a default Meetings/ folder.
Prefer updating existing canonical notes over spawning parallel task notes.
Main judgment rule
Daily logs are for process.
If a note will still matter after several days or weeks, promote the durable part into Knowledge/, Experiments/, Results/, or Writing/.