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Obsidian Literature Workflow

  • 257 installs
  • 5k repo stars
  • Updated July 17, 2026
  • galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar

Manage academic literature in Obsidian with Claude Scholar: reading queues, structured notes, bidirectional links, synthesis maps, and literature-review outlines for papers or theses.

About

obsidian-literature-workflow in claude-scholar sets up Obsidian for scholarly reading: templated notes, linked concepts, reading pipelines, and synthesis artifacts that support literature reviews and long-form research writing.

  • Reading queues
  • Structured annotations
  • Bidirectional links
  • Synthesis maps
  • Review outlines

Obsidian Literature Workflow by the numbers

  • 257 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #947 of 3,282 Productivity & Planning skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
npx skills add https://github.com/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar --skill obsidian-literature-workflow

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Installs257
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Last updatedJuly 17, 2026
Repositorygalaxy-dawn/claude-scholar

What it does

Manage academic literature in Obsidian with Claude Scholar: reading queues, structured notes, bidirectional links, synthesis maps, and literature-review outlines for papers or theses.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Obsidian Literature Workflow

This skill owns the project literature workflow.

Main flow

Sources/Papers/ -> Knowledge/ -> Writing/ -> Maps/literature.canvas

Default outputs

  • Sources/Papers/{paper-slug}.md
  • Knowledge/Literature Overview.md
  • Knowledge/Method Taxonomy.md
  • Knowledge/Research Gaps.md
  • Knowledge/Claim Map.md
  • Writing/related-work-draft.md only after promoted claims pass the evidence gate
  • Writing/comparison-matrix.md only after promoted claims pass the evidence gate
  • Maps/literature.canvas

Rules

  • paper notes stay under Sources/Papers/
  • literature synthesis does not live inside source notes
  • every synthesis note must link its supporting source notes
  • every research gap must carry evidence
  • every promoted claim must carry an Evidence Record ID, source type, claim strength, allowed wording, and forbidden stronger wording when it may flow into writing or rebuttal
  • weak paper notes, abstract-only pages, and webpage placeholders may update coverage or To-Read, but they cannot support Knowledge or Writing conclusions
  • default graph output is Maps/literature.canvas
  • do not generate extra canvases unless explicitly requested

Read next

  • references/PAPER-NOTE-SCHEMA.md
  • references/LITERATURE-OVERVIEW.md
  • references/CLAIM-EXTRACTION.md
  • references/METHOD-TAXONOMY.md
  • references/RESEARCH-GAPS.md
  • references/LITERATURE-CANVAS.md

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