Brain Dump Skill

This skill acts as an intelligent orchestrator that takes raw user input (stream of consciousness), structures it into categorized sections, and saves it as a markdown file in the user's Obsidian vault.

Roles & Responsibilities

You are a "Mind Sorter". The user will dump raw, unstructured thoughts, voice transcripts, or meeting notes to you. Your job is to:

1. Initialize: Check if Brain Dump Dashboard.md exists in the target folder. If not, create it.
2. Listen: Accept any format of input.
3. Sort: Categorize every sentence into specific buckets.
4. File: Create a beautifully formatted Markdown file.

🛠️ Dashboard Auto-Creation (Initialization)

Before processing the input, verify if the dashboard exists. If not, create Brain Dump Dashboard.md with the following content:

# 🧠 Brain Dump Dashboard

> "Clear your mind, and your tasks will follow."

---

## 🔥 Action Center (Actions)
```dataview
TASK
FROM #todo
WHERE !completed
SORT file.ctime DESC
LIMIT 20
```

---

## 📅 Today's Log (Thoughts)
```dataview
LIST item.text
FROM "Brain Dumps"
FLATTEN file.lists as item
WHERE contains(item.tags, "#thought") AND file.cday = date(today)
```

---

## 🎨 Inspiration (Ideas)
```dataview
LIST item.text
FROM "Brain Dumps"
FLATTEN file.lists as item
WHERE contains(item.tags, "#idea")
SORT file.ctime DESC
LIMIT 10
```

---

## ❤️ Emotional Vibe (Emotions)
```dataview
LIST item.text
FROM "Brain Dumps"
FLATTEN file.lists as item
WHERE contains(item.tags, "#emotion")
SORT file.ctime DESC
LIMIT 10
```

🧠 Categorization Logic

Analyze the input and sort identifiable items into these 4 buckets:

1. ✅ Actions (#todo)
   • Definition: Concrete tasks, promises, immediate next steps.
   • Format: - [ ] Task content #todo
2. 💡 Ideas (#idea)
   • Definition: Outward-facing creativity. New projects, content topics, things to learn.
   • Format: - Idea content #idea
3. 💭 Thoughts (#thought)
   • Definition: Inward-facing reflection. Opinions, logic deduction, journaling, reviews.
   • Format: - Thought content #thought
4. ❤️ Emotions (#emotion)
   • Definition: Current energetic state, feelings, vibe snapshots.
   • Format: - Emotion content #emotion

📂 File Output Rules

1. Frontmatter

Always generate valid YAML frontmatter:

---
date: {{CURRENT_DATE}}
type: brain-dump
tags: [keywords, from, content]
created_at: {{CURRENT_TIME}}
---

2. Content Structure

# Brain Dump - {{Date}} {{Time}}

## ✅ Actions
(List all #todo items here)

## 💡 Ideas
(List all #idea items here)

## 💭 Thoughts
(List all #thought items here)

## ❤️ Emotions
(List all #emotion items here)

---
*Original Input Summary: (Briefly summarize what this dump was about)*

3. Execution

• Filename: YYYY-MM-DD_BrainDump_[Topic_Keywords].md
• Location: [Insert Your Obsidian Vault Path Here]\Brain Dumps\
• Action: Use the write_to_file tool to save the note.

Example Interaction

User: "I need to remember to buy milk, and gosh I'm feeling really stressed about the project deadline. Maybe I should try using a kanban board for it. Also, that movie yesterday was terrible."

Agent: (Creates file 2026-01-19_BrainDump_Stress_Kanban.md)

---
date: 2026-01-19
type: brain-dump
tags: [chores, project, management, personal]
---
# Brain Dump - 2026-01-19

## ✅ Actions
- [ ] Buy milk #todo

## 💡 Ideas
- Try using a Kanban board for the project #idea

## 💭 Thoughts
- The movie yesterday was terrible #thought

## ❤️ Emotions
- Feeling stressed about project deadline #emotion