action-items

Action Items

Retrieves all open action items across the Obsidian vault - combining tasks assigned by name in meeting notes with personal todos from daily notes.

CRITICAL: Sandbox Requirement

Every obsidian command MUST be run with dangerouslyDisableSandbox: true. No exceptions. The obsidian CLI uses Unix socket IPC which the sandbox blocks.

Vault Structure

Daily notes live in Daily/ (named YYYY-MM-DD.md). Meeting notes live in Meetings/Work/ and Meetings/Personal/.

The obsidian CLI resolves the active vault automatically - no hardcoded paths needed.

Arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS for two optional values:

• Owner name: any word that does not contain =. Default: Adam.
• Vault name: a vault=<name> keyword argument. Default: Core.

Examples:

• /action-items → owner=Adam, vault=Core
• /action-items Sarah → owner=Sarah, vault=Core
• /action-items vault=Work → owner=Adam, vault=Work
• /action-items Sarah vault=Work → owner=Sarah, vault=Work

The owner name must match the wikilink tag used in meeting notes (e.g. [[Sarah]]).

Retrieval Process

Step 1: Meeting Note Action Items

Run obsidian tasks todo and filter for tasks tagged with the owner's name. Replace OWNER with the resolved name:

obsidian tasks todo format=json 2>&1 | jq --arg name "OWNER" '[.[] | select(.text | test("\\[\\[\($name)\\]\\]"))]'

This returns tasks of the form - [ ] [[OWNER]]: <description> found across all notes.

Step 2: Daily Note Todos

Daily notes use first-person tasks (no name tag). Only include these when the owner is the default user (Adam). Filter by file path:

obsidian tasks todo format=json 2>&1 | jq '[.[] | select(.file | startswith("Daily/")) | select(.text | length > 6)]'

The length > 6 check filters out empty checkboxes (- [ ] is 6 chars).

Step 3: Present Combined Results

Present results as three separate tables, in this order:

1. Meetings - tasks from Meetings/ notes (only shown when results exist)
2. Daily - personal todos from Daily/ notes (only shown for default owner, when results exist)
3. Projects - tasks from any other path not matching the above (only shown when results exist)

Show a total count at the end.

Output Format

Each section is a markdown table with columns: #, Task, Source.

• Meetings table: Source = clickable link to the meeting note
• Daily table: Source = clickable link to the daily note
• Projects table: Source = clickable link to the file

Obsidian URI Links

Build a clickable link for each source using the Obsidian URI scheme. Use the resolved vault name (default Core). URL-encode the file path (replace spaces with %20, etc.) using Python or jq.

Format: obsidian://open?vault=<VaultName>&file=<url-encoded-path>

The link label is:

• Meetings: meeting title (filename without date prefix and .md)
• Daily: the date (YYYY-MM-DD extracted from filename)
• Projects: the file path

To URL-encode the path in a shell pipeline, use Python:

python3 -c "import urllib.parse, sys; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.argv[1], safe='/'))" "path/to/file"

Or inline with jq using @uri:

jq -r '.file | @uri'

Note: @uri in jq encodes slashes too - if you need to preserve /, use Python instead.

Example rendered output:

### Meetings

| # | Task | Source |
|---|------|--------|
| 1 | Confirm Glean doc searchability | [Teleport and Charon Updates](obsidian://open?vault=Core&file=Meetings%2FWork%2F2026-02-20%20Teleport%20and%20Charon%20Updates.md) |
| 2 | Start SailPoint SCIM testing | [Teleport and Charon Updates](obsidian://open?vault=Core&file=Meetings%2FWork%2F2026-02-20%20Teleport%20and%20Charon%20Updates.md) |

### Daily

| # | Task | Source |
|---|------|--------|
| 3 | Destroy EC2 instances for Mike Beiter Demo | [2026-02-26](obsidian://open?vault=Core&file=Daily%2F2026-02-26.md) |

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X open items total

Numbers are sequential across all tables (meetings start at 1, daily continues the count, projects continues after that).

Strip the [[Name]]: prefix and wikilink brackets from all task text for clean output. Strip markdown link syntax (e.g. [text](url)) down to just the text portion. Strip [[wikilinks]] formatting from all task text, converting them to plain text. Strip the - [ ] checkbox prefix from task text.