Idea inbox

Skill jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills/skills/idea-inbox

MIT reusable AI skills for Codex and Claude Code: safe publishing, research briefs, case studies, web scraping, copy cleanup, and release automation.

Install

npx -y skills add jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills --skill idea-inbox

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Capture a raw idea as a dated, tagged markdown file in an ideas folder and keep an index up to date. Cleans filler words from the dump while preserving the substance, so capture stays fast and retrieval stays possible. Use when the user says "idea:", "capture this idea", "save this idea", or "add to my ideas".

SKILL.md

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Idea Inbox

Capture ideas at the speed they arrive and still find them later. One idea per file, dated and tagged, in a dedicated folder with an index. Dump fast, refine later.

Step 0: Locate the ideas folder (once)

Look for an IDEAS_INDEX.md anywhere in the project; its folder is the ideas folder.
Otherwise look for a folder named ideas/, Ideas/, or similar.
Otherwise ask the user where ideas should live, create the folder, and create an IDEAS_INDEX.md in it.

Never save idea files to the project root. A pile of loose dated files in the root is how ideas get deleted in the next cleanup.

Step 1: Capture

Get today's date from the current-date context (format YYYY-MM-DD).
Distill a 3 to 5 word kebab-case slug from the idea, e.g. etsy-pinterest-autonomous-pins.
Clean up the raw input: remove filler words and false starts, keep every substantive detail. Tighten, do not summarise. If the user wrote three rough sentences, the file should contain three clean sentences, not one.
Pick 1 to 3 tags from the index categories (see Step 2), plus idea.

Create <ideas-folder>/<date>-<slug>.md:

---
tags: [idea, <category-tag>]
date: <date>
---

# <Idea title in plain words>

<cleaned idea text>

Step 2: Update the index

IDEAS_INDEX.md keeps one line per idea under a category heading. Default categories (create on first use, let the user rename them):

# Ideas Index

## Business
## Automation & Tools
## Design & Creative
## Client Work
## Misc

Add the new idea under the best-fitting category:

- [<Idea title>](<date>-<slug>.md) <date>: one-line hook

If an idea clearly fits a category that does not exist yet, add the category rather than forcing it into Misc.

Step 3: Confirm

Report the file path, the category it was filed under, and the one-line hook used in the index.

Rules

One idea per file. If the user dumps three ideas in one message, create three files and say so.
Never edit or delete existing idea files. The inbox only grows; pruning is the user's call.
Preserve the user's meaning exactly. Cleaning filler is fine, replacing their thinking is not.
Keep the index sorted newest first within each category.