gws-obsidian-prep

gws-obsidian-prep

Cross-skill recipe: fetch today's (or tomorrow's) Google Calendar events via gws CLI and create meeting prep notes in the Obsidian vault.

Prerequisites

• gws CLI installed and authenticated (gws auth login -s calendar)
• Obsidian CLI available (which obsidian — requires Obsidian running)
• Vault path: ~/brain/

Trigger phrases

• "What meetings do I have today / tomorrow?"
• "Create prep notes for today's meetings"
• "Show me this week's schedule"
• "Prep note for [meeting name]"

Step-by-step workflow

1. Fetch events

# Today
gws calendar +agenda --today --format json

# Tomorrow
gws calendar +agenda --tomorrow --format json

# This week
gws calendar +agenda --week --format json

Parse the JSON array. Each event has: summary, start.dateTime, end.dateTime, attendees[], description, htmlLink.

2. Filter relevant events

Skip events where:

• summary matches /OOO|Out of Office|Blocked|Focus Time/i
• Duration < 10 minutes (likely auto-blocks)
• No attendees other than self (solo blocks)

3. Check for existing prep note

For each event, check if a prep note already exists:

obsidian search query="YYYY-MM-DD Event-Name prep"

If a note is found, skip creation and report it.

4. Create prep note

If no existing note found, create one:

obsidian create \
  name="meetings/YYYY-MM-DD_Event-Name-prep" \
  content="..." \
  silent

Filename convention: YYYY-MM-DD_Event-Name-prep.md

• Date = event date (not today if prepping ahead)
• Event name: lowercase, hyphens, truncate at 40 chars
• Always suffix -prep
• Placed in meetings/ folder

5. Note template

---
title: "Prep: {event summary}"
date: YYYY-MM-DD
type: meeting-prep
tags: [meeting-prep]
---

# Prep: {event summary}

**Date:** {date} {start time} – {end time}
**Calendar:** {calendarId or "primary"}

## Attendees

{- Name (email) for each attendee, self last}

## Agenda

{event description if present, else "- [ ] (add agenda items)"}

## My talking points

- [ ]

## Open questions

- [ ]

## Related

{wikilinks to matching project notes — see Project matching below}