Obsidian

Skill S3YED/appie-kit/skills/personal/note-taking/obsidian

Read, search, and create notes in the Obsidian vault.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add S3YED/appie-kit --skill obsidian

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One thing to look at

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SKILL.md

1.2 KB, 358 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

Obsidian Vault

Location: Set via OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH environment variable (e.g. in ~/.hermes/.env).

If unset, defaults to ~/Documents/Obsidian Vault.

Note: Vault paths may contain spaces - always quote them.

Read a note

VAULT="${OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH:-$HOME/Documents/Obsidian Vault}"
cat "$VAULT/Note Name.md"

List notes

VAULT="${OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH:-$HOME/Documents/Obsidian Vault}"

# All notes
find "$VAULT" -name "*.md" -type f

# In a specific folder
ls "$VAULT/Subfolder/"

Search

VAULT="${OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH:-$HOME/Documents/Obsidian Vault}"

# By filename
find "$VAULT" -name "*.md" -iname "*keyword*"

# By content
grep -rli "keyword" "$VAULT" --include="*.md"

Create a note

VAULT="${OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH:-$HOME/Documents/Obsidian Vault}"
cat > "$VAULT/New Note.md" << 'ENDNOTE'
# Title

Content here.
ENDNOTE

Append to a note

VAULT="${OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH:-$HOME/Documents/Obsidian Vault}"
echo "
New content here." >> "$VAULT/Existing Note.md"

Wikilinks

Obsidian links notes with [[Note Name]] syntax. When creating notes, use these to link related content.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most note taking skills give in 358 tokens

Counted across 632 of the 857 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

Use standard Markdown links for external URLsin 16 of 632, across 8 files
Use wikilinks for internal vault connectionsin 15 of 632, across 7 files
Embed content using the exclamation mark prefixin 14 of 632, across 6 files
Ask for clarification if the user request is ambiguousin 13 of 632
Add frontmatter properties at the top of the filein 12 of 632, across 4 files
Verify note renders correctly in reading viewin 12 of 632, across 4 files
Include a visual element on every slidein 11 of 632, across 5 files
Left-align body text and listsin 11 of 632, across 5 files
Maintain 0.5 inch minimum marginsin 11 of 632, across 5 files
Wrap formulas containing double quotes in single quotesin 11 of 632, across 5 files
Repeat one distinctive visual motif across all slidesin 10 of 632, across 4 files
Use 36pt or larger for slide titlesin 10 of 632, across 4 files

Said here and by no other author read

Quote vault paths containing spaces
Read notes using cat
List notes using find or ls
Append content using echo

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.