situate-daily-notes

Productivity

Situate yourself by generating a 1-page situation report and maintaining Obsidian-style daily summary notes.

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Situate daily notes

Use this on demand when the user asks you to catch up, or as the required daily-notes phase of close-of-day.

Do not run it automatically at session start.

Script roles

situate.ts — full situation report + rolling memory refresh + note status check
daily-notes.ts — generate or refresh daily-note skeletons only

Quick start

bun run /workspace/.pi/skills/situate-daily-notes/situate.ts

This:

prints a one-page situation report
aggregates activity across the relevant chat/session scope
generates missing daily-note skeletons
refreshes rolling memory/context files under notes/memory/
lists notes that still need summaries or partial updates

For web:* scopes, all web session trees are included and labelled so parallel branches stay distinguishable.

Daily note format

Notes live at notes/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md and begin with YAML front matter like:

---
date: 2026-03-04
summarised_until: 2026-03-04T17:55:35.286Z
messages_total: 25
messages_user: 10
messages_assistant: 15
session_trees: 2
session_chats: 4
first_message: 2026-03-04T12:31:03.860Z
last_message: 2026-03-04T17:55:17.309Z
scope_mode: all-web-session-trees
scope_anchor: web:default
---

Rolling memory outputs live under notes/memory/:

notes/memory/current-state.md
notes/memory/recent-context.md
notes/memory/MEMORY.md

Writing summaries

Daily notes are summaries only; the message database remains the source of truth for full transcripts.

When situate.ts or daily-notes.ts reports notes that need summary work:

read the note to confirm the target day and current metadata
use the messages tool as the primary transcript source
write a concise narrative summary covering:
- work grouped by theme rather than chronology
- key outcomes / deployments / configurations
- unresolved blockers or open threads
- materially different branch conversations kept distinct
replace  or the update marker
move summarised_until to the last covered message timestamp

If a note is only partially behind, append a short update section and advance the watermark rather than rewriting the whole note.

Keep the prose terse, dense, and matter-of-fact. Preserve existing real summaries; only fill placeholders or append updates.

Options

Flag	Default	Description
`--days <n>`	`7`	How many days of history to include
`--out <path>`	`/workspace/exports/situation.md`	Situation report output path
`--update-notes`	off	Refresh note metadata and memory outputs while generating the report

Standalone daily-note generation

bun run /workspace/.pi/skills/situate-daily-notes/daily-notes.ts [--days <n>] [--force]

For daily-note writing, prefer the messages tool over a separate full-transcript export unless you specifically need a transcript artifact.