---
name: Note Taking
slug: note-taking
category: Writing
description: "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."
github: "https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge/tree/main/packages/server/assets/skills/packs/plain-notes"
language: TypeScript
stars: 3468
forks: 219
install: "npx degit https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge/tree/main/packages/server/assets/skills/packs/plain-notes ~/.claude/skills/plain-notes"
installs_to: ~/.claude/skills/plain-notes
source_path: packages/server/assets/skills/packs/plain-notes/SKILL.md
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---

# Note Taking

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.

**Install:**

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

## README

# 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.

## Agent behaviors

- **Link liberally.** The value of this pack is the graph that emerges from links — when a note or entry mentions something worth its own page, link it (stub the page if it doesn't exist yet). OK's link graph builds itself from those edges.
- **Daily entries:** on the first entry of a day, link to yesterday's entry (its own dated file, e.g. `2026-07-08.md`) and pre-fill the date, so the linear journal is also a navigable graph.
- The `mood`, `top3`, and `gratitude` frontmatter fields on daily entries let you look back across days; fill them when journaling.

## Templates

`note` and `daily` carry only structure; write freely.