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Justin's Obsidian Academy

1. Daily Driver

TL;DR — Say “good morning” to Claude Code and it builds today’s daily note in 10-Daily/ with yesterday’s carry-over tasks, your top 3 priorities, and a snapshot of what’s waiting in your inbox. Used every weekday morning. Takes ~10 seconds.

This is the workflow you’ll use most. Get this one right and the rest of the system has a spine.

When to use it

Section titled “When to use it”
  • First thing in the morning, before email
  • After a multi-day gap (weekend, travel) — it’ll consolidate carry-overs
  • When you want a clean starting page for the day without manual setup

The skill will:

  1. Read yesterday’s note from 10-Daily/
  2. Pull anything from 00-Inbox/ that hasn’t been triaged
  3. Scan recent changes in 20-Projects/ for momentum signals
  4. Write today’s note to 10-Daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md

A new note appears in your file tree. Open it. That’s your dashboard for the day.

Under the hood

Section titled “Under the hood”
  • Skill location: ~/.claude/skills/daily-driver/SKILL.md
  • Reads:
    • 10-Daily/[yesterday].md — for carry-over tasks and tomorrow’s #1
    • 00-Inbox/inbox.md + 00-Inbox/* — for surfaced inbox items
    • obsidian_get_recent_changes — last 2 days, top 10 files
  • Writes: one file — 10-Daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md
  • Template source: 90-Templates/daily.md
  • Doesn’t chain other skills, but its output is read by Weekly Review on Sundays.

Watch out for

Section titled “Watch out for”
  • First run after a weekend can be noisy — it’ll surface 3+ days of carry-over. That’s correct behavior, not a bug.
  • On mobile, Claude Code runs on your desktop. Trigger it before you leave home, and Syncthing pushes the note to your Galaxy S26+ within ~30 seconds.
  • Missing yesterday note: if you skipped a day, it’ll look back up to 7 days. Beyond that, you get a blank slate — by design.
  • obsidian_get_recent_changes errors mean Dataview isn’t installed in Obsidian. Install it from Community Plugins to fix.

Make it yours

Section titled “Make it yours”
  • Change the wake phrase: edit the description: line in the skill’s frontmatter to add a phrase like “punch in” or “let’s go”.
  • Change the note layout: edit 90-Templates/daily.md. Every future daily note picks up your changes — Workout, Reading, Meditation sections, whatever you want.
  • Stack it: run “good morning” then immediately “process my inbox” — your day is now planned + zeroed in 60 seconds.
Section titled “Related workflows”
Inbox Zero Natural next step after your morning note exists
Weekly Review Consumes a week of these daily notes every Sunday