Rewrite journal

Skill kriswill/capture-plan/skills/rewrite-journal

Rewrite the Obsidian daily journal for a selected day from existing plan/summary notes. Use when journal entries are missing, corrupted, or need regeneration.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add kriswill/capture-plan --skill rewrite-journal

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Rewrite Journal

Reconstruct the daily journal for a selected day by reading all plan, summary, and activity notes in the vault for that date. The existing journal file is backed up before rewriting.

Procedure

1. Discover available days

Run the discovery script from the plugin root directory:

bun ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/rewrite-journal.ts --list-days 2>/dev/null

Parse the JSON output. Each entry has: date, dayName, planCount, hasJournal, hasBackup.

Tell the user: "Found N days with plans in the vault."

If no days found, inform the user and stop.

2. Ask which day to rewrite

List the available days, formatted as:

YYYY-MM-DD (DayName) — N plans [journal exists | no journal] [backup exists]

Use AskUserQuestion to let the user pick a day. Default to today if today is in the list.

If the selected day already has a backup file, warn the user that the existing backup will be overwritten.

3. Ask summarization preference

Use AskUserQuestion with these options:

AI summaries (Claude Haiku) — Richer, more descriptive summaries (uses API calls)
Fast text extraction — Quick summaries from note content, no API calls

4. Dry run

Run the script in dry-run mode:

bun ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/rewrite-journal.ts --day=YYYY-MM-DD --dry-run [--skip-summarize] 2>/dev/null

Add --skip-summarize if the user chose fast text extraction.

Parse the JSON result and show: "Will rewrite journal for YYYY-MM-DD: N plans to process. Current journal will be backed up."

If there are errors, show them to the user.

5. Confirm

Use AskUserQuestion to confirm:

Proceed — Rewrite the journal
Cancel — Abort without changes

6. Execute

Run the same command without --dry-run:

bun ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/rewrite-journal.ts --day=YYYY-MM-DD [--skip-summarize]

Progress lines appear on stderr during summarization (e.g. [3/40] Summarized: 01-my-slug (plan)).

Parse the JSON result and display: "Rewrote journal for YYYY-MM-DD: N callouts created, M revisions written. Backup saved."

If there were errors, list them for the user.

7. Ask about backup cleanup