Brain Capture — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Quickly capture an idea into the second brain with minimal friction, and note it in today's daily.
How to install Brain Capture
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/vuhai2002-second-brain-kit-brain-capture.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vuhai2002/second-brain-kit/HEAD/.claude/commands/brain-capture.md -o ~/.claude/commands/vuhai2002-second-brain-kit-brain-capture.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Brain Capture does
description: Quickly capture an idea into the second brain with minimal friction, and note it in today's daily. argument-hint: ""
/brain-capture
Low-friction idea capture. Keep it FAST.
Steps
- Resolve the vault. (Skip re-reading AGENTS.md if already loaded - speed matters here.)
- Save
$ARGUMENTSto/wiki/ideas/YYYY-MM-DD - .md(type: idea,status: captured) with a one-line## For future Claudepreamble + the idea. Createwiki/ideas/if
Alternatives in Productivity
- Repurpose — Workflow recipe — turn one blog post, video, or idea into a full platform-native content pack (thread, LinkedI 1.3k ★
- Maestro Knowhow — Intent-driven knowhow precipitation — describe what you want to capture (记一个关于X的决策 / 保存这段代码模板 / 写个部署配方 / 存个调试技 530 ★
- Obsidian Capture — Quick idea capture — zero friction, saves to Ideas/ and mentions in daily note 277 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
View Source RepositoryRelated Skills
Brain Daily
Create or update today's daily note in the second brain.
Brain Graduate
Promote a captured idea in the second brain into a full project note with tasks.
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Daily Note
Create today's daily journal note in the Obsidian vault
Log Decision
Log a decision to today's daily note with what was decided and who decided it
Create Daily Note
Generate today's daily note and daily habit tasks
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