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# Journal Entry

Create or append to today's journal entry with polished, wikilinked content.

## Steps

1. **Get today's date** from the `[Current time: ...]` message header — format as `YYYY-MM-DD`

2. **Clean up the input** from `$ARGUMENTS`:
   - Fix speech-to-text errors (spelling, grammar, punctuation)
   - Smooth sentence structure while preserving the user's voice and meaning
   - Remove filler words and transcription artifacts
   - Organize into logical paragraphs

3. **Find related notes** — call `vault_search` with key topics, names, and projects mentioned in the entry. Also check `vault_files` for `people/`, `projects/`, and `notes/` folders.

4. **Add wikilinks** — wherever the entry references a concept, project, person, or topic that has an existing note, insert a `[[wikilink]]`. Use display text where natural: `[[Note Name|natural phrasing]]`. Do not force links — only add them where they genuinely connect ideas.

5. **Check if today's journal exists** — call `vault_read` with `path: "notes/YYYY-MM-DD Journal.md"`
   - **If it exists:** append the new content below the existing text using `vault_create` with `overwrite: true`, preserving everything already there
   - **If it doesn't exist:** create a new note with `vault_create`:
     - `name`: `notes/YYYY-MM-DD Journal`
     - `content`:
     ```
     ---
     tags:
       - type/note
       - topic/journal
     date: YYYY-MM-DD
     ---

     [cleaned and wikilinked content]
     ```

6. **Link from daily note** — call `vault_append` with `file: "daily/YYYY-MM-DD"`:
   - If this is a new journal: `\n- **HH:MM** — Created [[YYYY-MM-DD Journal]] — journal entry`
   - If appending: `\n- **HH:MM** — Updated [[YYYY-MM-DD Journal]] — added to journal`
   - If the daily note doesn't exist yet, create it first with `vault_create`

## Guidelines
- Preserve the user's voice — tidy, don't rewrite
- Be aggressive about fixing transcription errors but conservative about changing meaning
- Every journal entry should have at least a few wikilinks connecting it to the broader vault
- Keep the daily note link concise — one line with a brief summary
- Use namespaced tags: `type/note` and `topic/journal`
- Confirm what was written with a short acknowledgment

From nexurba/vertex-nova, MIT.

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