Obsidian Distill — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Condense a long note or source into key claims, each tagged with provenance back to the exact source block it came from.
How to install Obsidian Distill
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/cshimizu4026-obsidian-second-brain-obsidian-distill/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cshimizu4026-obsidian-second-brain-obsidian-distill && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cShimizu4026/obsidian-second-brain/HEAD/commands/obsidian-distill.md -o ~/.claude/skills/cshimizu4026-obsidian-second-brain-obsidian-distill/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Obsidian Distill does
description: Condense a long note or source into key claims, each tagged with provenance back to the exact source block it came from category: thinking triggers_en: ["distill this", "condense this note", "summarize with sources", "distill this source", "boil this down with provenance"] triggers_de: ["das verdichten", "diese Notiz kürzen", "mit Quellen zusammenfassen", "diese Quelle auswerten", "mit Herkunftsnachweisen zusammenfassen"] triggers_es: ["destila esto", "condensa esta nota", "resú
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