Topic · Knowledge Management
Best note-taking skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Note-taking skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renders Markdown notes from Knap templates and JSON data on the command line, including notes built from Defuddle web page output. | kepano/ | 49k | 2 repos | ~986 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 23 days ago |
| 2 | Create and edit Obsidian Flavored Markdown with wikilinks, embeds, callouts, properties, and other Obsidian-specific syntax. | Atmosphere/ | 3.8k | 20 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 3 | Saves and recalls markdown notes between agent sessions with the agent-carnet CLI, tracking which notes proved useful so stale ones expire and good ones stay. | yamadashy/ | 29k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 4 | Creates a bounded, extractive rollup of recent Obsidian wiki log entries, previewed by default, with one optional apply step and no changes to child pages. | AgriciDaniel/ | 15k | 1 repo | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 5 | Maintains a structured Markdown knowledge base in a knowledge/ folder by ingesting shared articles, synthesizing conversations and answering questions from it. | zhayujie/ | 47k | — | ~924 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 6 | Explains a whole book to someone who has not read it, keeping its specific content and showing how its threads connect, and saves the result as an Org note. | lijigang/ | 7.5k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 7 | 7.Qmd Local hybrid search for markdown notes and docs. An agent skill from alsk1992/CloddsBot. | alsk1992/ | 2.9k | 3 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 8 | 8.LLM Wiki Build and maintain a Karpathy-style LLM knowledge base — a self-compiling Obsidian markdown wiki where an Agent ingests raw sources, compiles cross-linked concept/entity/summary pages, answers… | lewislulu/ | 655 | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 5 mo ago |
| 9 | Creates, inspects and updates Obsidian JSON Canvas boards in a vault, with text, file, link, group and edge nodes, using safe recoverable edits. | AgriciDaniel/ | 15k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 10 | Generate a high-quality deep-reading note for a single paper and write it into an Obsidian-style vault. | 917Dhj/ | 1.2k | 1 repo | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 11 | Use a file-based PARA memory system to store, retrieve, and organize durable knowledge across sessions. | paperclipai/ | 99k | 1 repo | ~909 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | 根据用户提供的论文主题,进行系统性中英文文献回顾(Literature Survey). An agent skill from stephenlzc/AI-Powered-Literature-Review-Skills. | stephenlzc/ | 168 | 1 repo | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 13 | Files a specific answer, decision or insight you point to in a conversation as one reviewed note in your Obsidian vault, and only when you ask for it. | AgriciDaniel/ | 15k | 1 repo | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 14 | Searches already-saved paper notes in a local Obsidian vault by title, author, keyword, tag, field or arXiv ID, and ranks the matches by relevance. | juliye2025/ | 1.7k | — | ~481 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 23 days ago |
| 15 | 15.Obsidian CLI Lets the agent read, write, search and tidy an Obsidian vault directly through the official Obsidian command-line interface. | pablo-mano/ | 451 | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 16 | Searches books, manages the shelf, reads public-account articles and reads or writes highlights and notes in WeRead through the weread-omni CLI. | teng-lin/ | 654 | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 24 days ago |
| 17 | Creates today's daily note in an Obsidian vault and guides morning, midday and evening routines for planning, task review and reflection. | ballred/ | 1.9k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 mo ago |
| 18 | Add or update YAML frontmatter properties to enhance Obsidian note organization. | heyitsnoah/ | 2.6k | — | ~951 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 19 | Generate structured, timestamped Markdown notes from videos (Bilibili, Douyin, YouTube, or local media files) using the local VideoToNo service. | like-attract/ | 122 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 20 | Converts a YouTube talk into a markdown study note with slide images, a timestamped transcript and editable notes, browsable through a small local server. | dair-ai/ | 614 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 21 | 21.My LLM Wiki Provides access to the user's personal wiki, including notes, research, project documentation, decisions, and archived knowledge. | MartinLwx/ | 140 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 18 days ago |
| 22 | Turns PDFs, slides, syllabi, papers and transcripts into structured, teaching-quality Obsidian notes, matching how much structure is built to how much the material needs. | Michael-OvO/ | 205 | — | ~917 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 23 | A skill your agent uses when turning a folder of research PDFs into Obsidian notes, even if Obsidian is not named. | Aperivue/ | 329 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 24 | Maintains a project-scoped Obsidian research knowledge base: bootstrapping its folders, routing notes, updating hub, plan and index notes, and linting. | Galaxy-Dawn/ | 5.7k | — | ~551 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 15 days ago |
| 25 | Reads, creates and edits notes in an Obsidian vault while preserving wiki-links, YAML frontmatter, tags and template variables. | ballred/ | 1.9k | — | ~652 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 mo ago |
| 26 | Create and edit Obsidian Flavored Markdown with wikilinks, embeds, callouts, properties, and other Obsidian-specific syntax. | KevRojo/ | 141 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
| 27 | Assigns and checks Luhmann-style codes for book manuscript notes and Obsidian card folders without renumbering existing notes. | twhsi/ | 259 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 28 | 28.LLM Wiki Builds and maintains a persistent, interlinked Obsidian-compatible markdown knowledge wiki in a git repo via three operations — ingest a source into linked pages, answer a question from the… | CharlesHoskinson/ | 116 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 29 | Analyzes arXiv papers, PDFs, project pages and blogs and writes an evidence-backed Obsidian note with images and a knowledge-graph entry. | juliye2025/ | 1.7k | — | ~715 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 23 days ago |
| 30 | 连接明确配置的锤子便签服务,查询和维护当前账号的云端工作区。支持便签列表、全文查询、新增、更新、软删除、恢复、显式永久删除、文件夹分类、星标和置顶;用户提到用 Hermes 或 AI 管理锤子便签、查找便签、写入 Markdown、整理分类、收藏、置顶或处理回收站时使用。优先使用 NOTESAPITOKEN;仅在 Token 缺失时用用户名和密码自动申请 Token 并安全更新 .env。 | zhaoolee/ | 195 | — | ~502 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 31 | 31.Summarize Summarize any content (YouTube video, article, whitepaper/PDF, podcast episode, book chapter, etc.) into a rich Obsidian note with section-by-section breakdowns, wikilinks to all technical concepts… | reysu/ | 270 | — | ~7.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 32 | 32.Claude Watch Watch a tutorial or lecture video (URL or local path) and produce structured study notes. | devinilabs/ | 117 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 33 | 33.Solomd Read, search, edit, and version-control any folder of Markdown notes via the SoloMD MCP server. | zhitongblog/ | 1.2k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 34 | Save a shared web link as a clean Obsidian note. An agent skill from LearnPrompt/LearnPrompt. | LearnPrompt/ | 2.7k | — | ~257 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 3 days ago |
| 35 | Processes voice transcripts and brain dumps in three phases, extracting every idea thread, evaluating the strongest and saving a permanent inventory and synthesis. | NateBJones-Projects/ | 4.7k | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 36 | 36.Joplin Orchestration guidance for Joplin note, notebook, and tag management tools | alondmnt/ | 172 | — | ~897 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 26 days ago |
| 37 | 37.Tlon Read Tlon activity and message history; manage workspaces (Tlon groups), channels, Markdown notes, shared Bucket files, contacts, profiles, settings, and channel hooks; expose content publicly… | tloncorp/ | 107 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 38 | Turns an article, paper or book into a directed chain of sharp questions and four-part answers that retraces the author's reasoning, saved as an org-mode note. | lijigang/ | 7.5k | — | ~590 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 39 | Turns uploaded photos, voice notes, text or local files into standardized experiment logs in Markdown with YAML frontmatter, optionally through Feishu CLI and Obsidian. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | 2 repos | ~942 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 40 | Explains, drafts and validates Obsidian Bases .base files, building filters, formulas and table, card or list views, and applying edits only through one inspected transaction. | AgriciDaniel/ | 15k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 41 | Manage Obsidian vault operations. An agent skill from ravila4/claude-adhd-skills. | ravila4/ | 157 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 mo ago |
| 42 | 42.Prove Claim A skill your agent uses when asked to prove, disprove, investigate, or find evidence for a claim about people, concepts, ideas, or their relationships. | obra/ | 111 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 6 mo ago |
| 43 | Sets up, audits or incrementally upgrades a local Obsidian vault for knowledge work and content production, without overwriting or moving existing notes. | imraywang/ | 160 | — | ~625 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 15 days ago |
| 44 | Build or revise private, cited Markdown notes from the user's WeChat history in the current agent session. | bojieli/ | 352 | — | ~669 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 45 | Answers questions from a local Obsidian-style wiki by reading its index first, then the relevant pages, and replying with wiki-link citations instead of model memory. | jason-effi-lab/ | 716 | — | ~383 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 5 mo ago |
| 46 | Audit any second brain, notes folder, or agent memory for facts that have quietly stopped being true, then fix the worst one so it stops recurring. | coleam00/ | 670 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 47 | Generate short-form video ideas at volume and stop the blank-page problem for good. | vyralcontent/ | 132 | 1 repo | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 48 | Explains, drafts and validates Obsidian Flavored Markdown such as properties, wikilinks, embeds, callouts and Mermaid, with vault edits applied through approved transactions. | AgriciDaniel/ | 15k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best note-taking skill?
Knap Markdown Templates from kepano/obsidian-skills ranks first of the 126 note-taking skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 49k GitHub stars, 2 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 986 tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Obsidian Markdown and Agent Carnet Notebook.
Which note-taking skills are official?
None yet. All 126 note-taking skills listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.