Prompts

Add Work to Periodic Note

Extract work session summaries from AI conversations and add them to periodic notes in consistent format

Purpose

This prompt helps automatically log completed work to periodic weekly notes with timestamps and wikilinks.

It's designed to quickly capture work sessions in a consistent format that integrates with Obsidian's periodic notes workflow.

This is particularly useful for maintaining accurate work logs without manual timestamp tracking or formatting.

How to Use

This prompt is designed to be used with AI coding assistants that have file system access capabilities, such as:

Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI)
Cursor IDE
OpenCode
Windsurf/Codex

Steps:

Complete a work session with your AI assistant
Copy and paste the prompt below
The assistant will extract the session details and add them to your weekly periodic note

Best Practices:

Run this at the end of each significant work session
Ensure your periodic notes follow the format: YYYY-WXX.md with daily headings # YYYY-MM-DD Day
Review the added entry to ensure accuracy

Prompt

Extract timestamp and brief summary of work from this conversation. Add to my periodic note (weekly, in 10 - Periodic it will have a file name for [YYYY]-W[MM]) under today's heading (YYYY-MM-DD Day) with format: "- HH:MM [summary with wikilinks]

Prompts

Add Work to Periodic Note

Extract work session summaries from AI conversations and add them to periodic notes in consistent format

Purpose

This prompt helps automatically log completed work to periodic weekly notes with timestamps and wikilinks.

It's designed to quickly capture work sessions in a consistent format that integrates with Obsidian's periodic notes workflow.

This is particularly useful for maintaining accurate work logs without manual timestamp tracking or formatting.

How to Use

This prompt is designed to be used with AI coding assistants that have file system access capabilities, such as:

Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI)
Cursor IDE
OpenCode
Windsurf/Codex

Steps:

Complete a work session with your AI assistant
Copy and paste the prompt below
The assistant will extract the session details and add them to your weekly periodic note

Best Practices:

Run this at the end of each significant work session
Ensure your periodic notes follow the format: YYYY-WXX.md with daily headings # YYYY-MM-DD Day
Review the added entry to ensure accuracy

Prompt

Extract timestamp and brief summary of work from this conversation. Add to my periodic note (weekly, in 10 - Periodic it will have a file name for [YYYY]-W[MM]) under today's heading (YYYY-MM-DD Day) with format: "- HH:MM [summary with wikilinks]