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Obsidian Vault Automation

Automate Obsidian knowledge management, note linking, and personal knowledge base workflows

10 minutes
By communitySource
#obsidian#notes#knowledge-management#markdown#pkm

Your Obsidian vault is a graveyard of unlinked notes. You capture ideas religiously but never connect them. Building a real knowledge graph requires linking, backlinking, and maintaining structure — work that's tedious enough that it never happens consistently.

Who it's for: Obsidian power users wanting automated vault maintenance, Zettelkasten practitioners needing consistent note linking, PKM enthusiasts building interconnected knowledge bases, researchers managing large reference libraries in Obsidian, productivity-focused professionals using Obsidian as their operating system

Example

"Automate my Obsidian vault organization" → Automated workflows: new notes auto-linked to related existing notes, daily notes template with auto-pulled tasks, orphan note detection and suggested connections, and weekly vault health report with link density stats

CLAUDE.md Template

New here? 3-minute setup guide → | Already set up? Copy the template below.

Or install from your terminal:
npx ccplaybooks add obsidian-automation
# Obsidian Automation

Automate Obsidian knowledge management and personal knowledge base workflows.

## Core Capabilities

### Note Creation
```yaml
note_templates:
  daily_note:
    filename: "{{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}"
    folder: "Daily Notes"

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README.md

What This Does

Automate Obsidian knowledge management and personal knowledge base workflows.


Quick Start

Step 1: Create a Project Folder

mkdir -p ~/Documents/ObsidianAutomation

Step 2: Download the Template

Click Download above, then:

mv ~/Downloads/CLAUDE.md ~/Documents/ObsidianAutomation/

Step 3: Start Working

cd ~/Documents/ObsidianAutomation
claude

Best Practices

  1. Atomic Notes: One idea per note
  2. Consistent Naming: Use conventions
  3. Link Liberally: Connect related ideas
  4. Daily Practice: Regular review
  5. Templates: Standardize note types
  6. Tags vs Links: Use both strategically

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