Daily Journal

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Use when the user wants to work with their daily note, view today's entry, add a log, do a daily review, or capture quick thoughts. Covers all daily note workflows.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Daily Journal skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian in skills/journal/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Work with today's daily note in the Obsidian vault.

Default Action (no arguments)

  1. Call obsidian_get_daily_note to retrieve today's note
  2. Summarize key tasks, events, or entries
  3. Ask if the user wants to add anything

Quick Capture (with arguments)

If the user provides text after /journal, log it:

  1. Call obsidian_append_daily_log with heading "Notes" and the user's text
  2. Confirm what was logged

Common Headings

When logging entries, use these standard headings:

  • Work Log — tasks, progress, accomplishments
  • Notes — general thoughts and observations
  • Ideas — creative ideas and inspirations
  • Meetings — meeting notes and action items

Weekly Review

If the user asks for a "weekly review":

  1. List recent daily notes via obsidian_list_notes (subfolder "Daily Notes")
  2. Read each day's note
  3. Summarize themes, accomplishments, and open items

Signals

GitHub stars
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Last commit
Jul 2026
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Item type
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Key
journal-thoreinstein
Source
github.com/thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian