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Summarise Obsidian Articles

Section titled “Summarise Obsidian Articles”

I want you to create summaries for each file in the “Advice/Your Best Self” folder, I want you to put a summary of the article at the top.

  1. Read each file and decide whether it needs a summary of whether someone can digest it as-is. Short (< 30s reading time) articles or things that are just list of items don’t need summarizing.
  2. If the file needs a summary, create it in a way that highlights the key insights / interesting items from the article. This should be about high-bandwidth learning.
  3. Paste that summary into the top of the file as an Obsidian call out (i.e., > [!summary] > add the summary here)

Create a summary for this markdown article from my Obsidian vault. Read it and create a summary that highlights the key insights / interesting items from the article. This should be about high-bandwidth learning: do not just describe what the article is about, but instead extract the pertinent learnings and insights from the article and summarize them. In your response, do not add any commentary, do not ask any questions of me, but only output the summary formatted as a an Obsidian callout: i.e., > [!summary] then the summary itself, with every paragraph prefixed by the characters ”> ” to keep them part of the callout)

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Summarize the article below as a high-bandwidth learning resource for my Obsidian vault. Follow these strict constraints:

  1. Content: Extract and highlight key insights and pertinent learnings. Do not merely describe what the article is about; provide a substantive summary of the advice / mechanisms / what it’s trying to communicate.

  2. Formatting: Use an Obsidian callout format starting with > [!summary]. Every subsequent line (including headers and empty lines) must be prefixed with > to ensure the entire summary remains inside the callout. Use formatting judiciously. In particular, where you might normally use a heading instead use bold.

  3. Length: The total summary must be no greater than 250 words.

  4. Exclusions: Provide only the callout. Do not include any introductory commentary, conversational filler, or a “Would you like me to…” closing sentence.

[Insert Article Text Here]