obsidian-email

What problem does it solve?

Obsidian users paste email chains as notes but struggle to keep participants, contacts, and discussion context consistent. This Skill automates extraction of participants from From headers, creates or updates People profiles with emails, and appends a structured Summary for quick review and archiving.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Extract Participants: parse email From headers to identify unique senders and build a linked, ordered list.
• Create/Update People Profiles: generate missing People profiles with emails or add email addresses to existing profiles, ensuring consistent linking with Obsidian wiki-links.
• Generate Structured Summary: produce an organized Summary section with an Overview, Key Points, and Action Items, referencing tickets and dates when present.
• Use Case: paste an email thread into an Obsidian note containing an Email Chain; run this skill to automatically populate Participants, ensure People profiles exist, and generate a detailed Summary.

Quick Start

Use the obsidian-email skill to process an Obsidian note containing an Email Chain section. The script will extract participants, create profiles, update the Participants section with wiki-links, and generate a Summary.