Obsidian Research Log
SkillDocs & knowledgeUse 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.
Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.
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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 Obsidian Research Log skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills in skills/33-Galaxy-Dawn-claude-scholar/skills/obsidian-research-log/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
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.md01-Plan.md00-Hub.mdrecent progress block.claude/project-memory/<project_id>.md
Rules
- Convert vague TODOs into concrete checkbox lists in
01-Plan.mdwhen 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/, or01-Plan.mdinstead of creating a defaultMeetings/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/.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 4k
- Forks
- 531
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
obsidian-research-log- Source
- github.com/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills
github.com/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills
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