skills/obsidian-organize/SKILL.md
Organize Obsidian notes according to clawd's preferences. Use when user asks to "organize notes", "move notes to right folder", "clean up vault", "tidy vault", "file this note", or when creating new notes in the Obsidian vault. Also use when moving, renaming, or categorizing notes, or when the vault root has stray files.
npx skillsauth add edwinhu/workflows obsidian-organizeInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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Clawd's Obsidian vault follows the PARA method. Every note belongs in a specific folder — nothing lives in the vault root.
Vault/
├── 0. Inbox/ # Unsorted captures, quick notes
├── 1. Projects/ # Active projects with deadlines
├── 2. Areas/ # Ongoing responsibilities
├── 3. Resources/ # Reference material
│ ├── People/ # Notes about individuals
│ ├── References/ # Technical references (APIs, tools, comparisons)
│ ├── Concepts/ # Ideas, frameworks, mental models
│ └── ... # Other resource categories as needed
├── 4. Archive/ # Completed/inactive items
└── Templates/ # Note templates
| Note Type | Folder | Example |
|-----------|--------|---------|
| Person (colleague, contact, public figure) | 3. Resources/People/ | Jeffrey Peck - PSLRA Lobbyist.md |
| API docs, tool guides, tech comparisons | 3. Resources/References/ | Claude API - Streaming Responses.md |
| Concepts, frameworks, mental models | 3. Resources/Concepts/ | Efficient Market Hypothesis.md |
| Active project with a deadline | 1. Projects/ | Current research, course prep |
| Ongoing responsibility (no end date) | 2. Areas/ | Teaching, health, finances |
| Quick capture, unsorted | 0. Inbox/ | To be filed later |
| Done, no longer active | 4. Archive/ | Past projects, old references |
Titles should be descriptive and include context so they're findable without opening the note:
Full Name - Role or Context.md (e.g., Jeffrey Peck - PSLRA Lobbyist.md)Tool/Topic - Specific Aspect.md (e.g., jq - Container Compatibility Notes.md)Avoid generic titles like Meeting Notes.md or Ideas.md — add the date, person, or topic.
3. Resources/) rather than the root0. Inbox/ is the right temporary home — but follow up by filing it properly1. Projects/ to 4. Archive/tools
Use when "query Dewey Data", "deweydata.io", "SafeGraph places/patterns/spend", "Advan foot traffic", "POI / points of interest", "mobility data", "dataplor", "Veraset", "PassBy", "crypto/Bitcoin ATM locations", or any pull from the Dewey Data academic marketplace (UVA/NYU Platform Subscription) via the deweypy/deweydatapy client, DuckDB, or the Dewey MCP server.
development
Use when submitting jobs to UVA HPC (Rivanna/Afton), writing Slurm scripts (sbatch/srun/squeue), converting SGE to Slurm, running compute on any Slurm-managed cluster, or building WRDS data pipelines with polars on HPC. Triggers: 'submit to HPC', 'sbatch', 'squeue', 'slurm job', 'run on Rivanna', 'run on Afton', 'HPC array job', 'convert SGE to Slurm', 'polars on HPC', 'WRDS from HPC'.
testing
Internal skill for literature review and source materialization. Called after brainstorm, before setup. NOT user-facing.
development
This skill should be used when the user asks to "add paper", "paperpile add", "fetch PDF for", "find and add", "search paperpile", "find in paperpile", "paperpile search", "label paper", "trash paper", "download paper", "paperpile index", "edit paper metadata", "update paper title", "fix paper author", "paperpile edit", "find PDF online", "search google for PDF", "resolve PDF", "fetch PDF for citation", "get full-text for DOI", "resolve cite to PDF", or any request to manage their Paperpile library or resolve a citation to a local PDF.