mikehelmick

Daily Note — Productivity skill for Claude Code

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Create today's daily journal note in the Obsidian vault.

How to install Daily Note

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/mikehelmick-obsidian-claude-daily-note/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mikehelmick-obsidian-claude-daily-note && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikehelmick/obsidian-claude/HEAD/commands/daily-note.md -o ~/.claude/skills/mikehelmick-obsidian-claude-daily-note/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Daily Note does

description: Create today's daily journal note in the Obsidian vault allowed-tools: Write, Read, Bash

Create today's daily note in this Obsidian vault.

Steps:

Determine today's date and day of week.
Format the filename as YYYY-MM-DD-Day.md (e.g., 2026-04-09-Wednesday.md).
The file goes in journal/ — this is the active daily notes folder for all 2026 entries regardless of month.
If the file already exists, tell the user and do NOT overwrite it.
If the file does not

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