Scratch Review

What problem does it solves? This Skill prevents your temporary notes and quick captures from becoming an unmanageable mess. It helps you regularly clean up outdated ideas, retain valuable insights, and promote promising concepts for further development, ensuring your ideation pipeline stays fresh and relevant.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Note Triage: Systematically review scratch notes by age, identifying active, outdated, or valuable ideas.
• Efficient Cleanup: Easily delete irrelevant notes to maintain a focused and organized workspace.
• Idea Promotion: Seamlessly move promising ideas from scratch to a "brewing" state for deeper exploration and refinement.
• Use Case: Periodically run this Skill to go through your scratch/ folder. It will list old notes, let you read them, and then decide to delete them, keep them, or promote them to brewing/ for more detailed planning.

Quick Start

To review all scratch notes, sorted by oldest first:

./.claude/skills/notes/scripts/list-titles --with-dates scratch/

To read a specific note:

cat ./.notes/scratch/filename.md

To delete an outdated note (git preserves history):

rm ./.notes/scratch/filename.md

To promote a valuable idea to brewing:

mv ./.notes/scratch/old-idea.md ./.notes/brewing/new-idea.md