Capture-Note Skill

What this does

Writes a new note to 00-inbox/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md with full frontmatter, the body the user provided, and at least one [[wikilink]] to a related existing vault note.

Steps

1. Read input from invocation. If invoked as /capture-note <text>, the text is the body. If invoked with no arg, prompt: "What's the note? Paste the text."
2. If the body is more than one sentence and no clear title is obvious, prompt: "What's the title?" Otherwise, infer a short title (≤8 words) from the first sentence.
3. Slugify the title: lowercase, replace spaces with hyphens, strip non-alphanumerics. Compute today's date YYYY-MM-DD. Compute the path 00-inbox/{{date}}-{{slug}}.md.
4. Prompt: "What does this relate to? Name at least one existing vault note (e.g., [[some-related-note]]). You can search the vault first." Accept a list. For each name given, verify the note exists via Glob/Grep. If no matches, ask again with the list of suggestions.
5. If the user cannot name any related note, ask: "No related note found. Tag this as #orphan and proceed?" On y, set tags to [inbox, orphan] and related: to []. On n, stop and report.
6. Read templates/inbox-note.md and substitute:
   • {{date}} → today's date
   • {{source}} → "/capture-note"
   • {{related-wikilinks}} → YAML list of wikilinks, e.g., ["[[note-a]]", "[[note-b]]"]
   • {{title}} → the title
   • {{body}} → the user's text
   • {{related-list}} → bulleted list of wikilinks
7. If the file path already exists, append -2, -3, etc. to the slug until unique. Report the rename to the user.
8. Write the file. Report path and wikilinks added.

Rules

• Never write a note with zero wikilinks unless the user explicitly accepted the #orphan fallback.
• Tags come from _meta/tags.md approved vocabulary. If the user requests a new tag, add #flag-tag and tell them to update _meta/tags.md.
• Never overwrite an existing file. Auto-rename on collision.
• Use [[wikilinks]], never markdown links.
• Frontmatter source: field is always "/capture-note" for audit.