Note Taking

Note Taking is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by inkeep in open-knowledge.

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Install Note Taking

Copy Note Taking into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge/tree/main/packages/server/assets/skills/packs/plain-notes ~/.claude/skills/plain-notes

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: packages/server/assets/skills/packs/plain-notes/SKILL.md in inkeep/open-knowledge
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/plain-notes
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Note Taking does

Note Taking guides agents on how to work in a Plain Notes project, a flat notes folder plus a daily journal for jotting notes, capturing quick thoughts, and writing today's journal entry. Use it when the project has these folders or when asked to capture a thought or write a daily entry.

Note Taking is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Note Taking comes from a repository tagged 2nd-brain, agent-skills, claude, codex and company-brain.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Plain Notes pack — how to work here

The lightest pack: no posture imposed, just write and link.

This skill is pack guidance. The platform /open-knowledge skill (read/write/preview/linking/grounding rules) still governs every markdown operation — this layers the notes habit on top.

Folders

notes/ — one file per topic, flat. Promote a note into a more structured layout later if you outgrow this.
daily/ — one journal entry per day (YYYY-MM-DD.md): morning intentions, capture through the day, evening reflection.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Note Taking provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/open-knowledge

Frequently asked about Note Taking

What else does inkeep publish alongside Note Taking?
Note Taking is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from inkeep/open-knowledge, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Codebase Wiki, Consolidate Notes and Frame a Proposal. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Note Taking does, and is maintained by inkeep in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the inkeep/open-knowledge page.
How does Note Taking compare to other Writing skills?
Note Taking ranks #185 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Note Taking against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.