obsidian-paper-vault

# Obsidian Paper Vault Converts a folder of research PDFs into a two-layer Obsidian vault: **literature notes** (one per paper, templated) and **atomic concept notes** (synthesized across papers). The rules below are not style preferences. Each one is here because its absence produced a specific, silent failure — a fabricated patient count, a broken PDF link, an empty Dataview table — in a vault of 100+ papers. ## Relationship to /lit-sync Both skills write literature and concept notes into the same vault folders. They enter from opposite ends and must not overwrite each other. | | `/lit-sync` | `obsidian-paper-vault` | |---|---|---| | Input | Zotero collection / `refs.bib` | a folder of PDFs | | Note key | citekey | short descriptive title | | Owns | `manuscript/_src/refs.bib` | extracted-text cache | **Never overwrite an existing note.** If a note for the paper already exists (by title, DOI, or citekey), report it and skip. When both skills are in play, `/lit-sync` notes are the bibliographic spine; this skill's notes are the read-through summaries. ## Step 0: Resolve the vault layout — ask, do not assume Establish three paths before writing anything: 1. **Vault root** — from the user, or `$OBSIDIAN_VAULT`. Never guess a home-directory path. 2. **Literature notes folder** — default `Literature/`. If the vault already has a folder serving this role (`02_research/논문/`, `Papers/`, `文献/`), **honor the existing layout** rather than imposing the default. 3. **Conce...