secondbrain_skill

Overview

This skill is a conversational Second Brain for capturing thoughts, managing knowledge, and surfacing actionable insights during work sessions. It captures ideas, tasks, meetings, and references with minimal interruption and keeps a searchable knowledge graph. Use it to triage an inbox, generate daily digests, query your notes semantically, or update task status quickly.

How this skill works

During conversation the skill recognizes capture intent (explicit or implicit), extracts context, classifies the capture into typed nodes (task, idea, reference, meeting, etc.), and either auto-saves or sends low-confidence items to review. It supports semantic search, graph traversal across relationships (supports, blocks, contains), and short digests that surface due items and priorities. Actions let you complete tasks, change priority, archive nodes, and link items to meetings or people.

When to use it

• When you want to save an idea or decision mid-conversation ("remember this")
• To add or update a task quickly ("add a task", "mark complete")
• To check pending captures or triage your inbox ("show my inbox")
• When you need a focused daily or weekly digest ("what should I focus on today?")
• To query past notes, decisions, or relationships ("what did I say about authentication?")

Best practices

• Capture only meaningful items to avoid clutter; be selective when intent is weak
• Provide minimal context (project, due date, assignee) when creating tasks to improve classification
• Review low-confidence captures in the inbox to correct types or add links
• Link new captures to existing nodes to prevent duplicates and preserve graph integrity
• Use short commands for quick actions (capture, inbox, digest, done <id>)

Example use cases

• Capture a deadline mentioned in conversation and create a task with a due date
• Paste a meeting transcript to auto-extract tasks, decisions, people, and insights
• Ask for today’s digest to see overdue and high-priority items before starting work
• Search the knowledge graph for all references supporting a specific goal
• Mark a PR review task complete or change its priority during a session