Article → Notes
Convert one web article into a distilled markdown note ready for a personal knowledge base (e.g. Obsidian, Logseq, plain notes/ folder).
When to use
- User pastes an article URL and says "take notes", "summarize into a note", "save this as a note"
- You already have article text fetched and just need the note shape
When NOT to use
- Paywalled or login-gated content (do not scrape auth walls)
- Image-heavy galleries where images are the content
- Real-time news that needs just a headline brief (use a 3-line summary instead)
Steps
- Fetch the article with
web_fetch(markdown mode). If extraction fails, ask the user to paste the text. - Extract: title, author/site, publish date, canonical URL.
- Write the note in this exact shape:
# <Title>
- **Source:** <site> · <URL>
- **Date:** <publish date or "unknown">
- **Saved:** <YYYY-MM-DD>
## Key points
- 3–6 bullets, one idea each, no filler.
## Worth quoting
> 1–2 short verbatim quotes (keep under ~15 words each).
## My take
- 1–2 lines: why this matters / what to follow up on.
- Save to
notes/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.mdunless the user specifies another path. - Reply with the saved path and the 3-bullet key points inline.
Notes
- Never invent quotes — if no good quote exists, drop that section.
- Keep "My take" honest; if the article added nothing new, say so in one line.
- If the article is > 5000 words, cap key points at 6 and note "(long read, distilled)".
