Prompt

Daily debrief merge

Worked across multiple chats today? This merges everything into your daily debrief without losing anything or duplicating your voice.

daily systems obsidian

When to use this

You worked in more than one Claude chat today
You already ran your daily debrief in your main session
You want to capture a side chat without losing what's already there

Prerequisites

A daily debrief already written for today
Obsidian with Local REST API plugin or Google Drive connected
Claude connected to your note tool via MCP

How it works

Paste this into the secondary chat — the one with work you want to capture. Claude pulls your existing debrief, scans the conversation for anything new, merges the two quietly, and overwrites the file in place. Nothing duplicated, nothing lost, your voice preserved throughout.

It tracks merge history at the bottom of the file so you always know when things were captured.

💡 tip

Run this from the secondary chat that has the work you want to capture — not your main session. The parts highlighted in amber in the prompt below are the bits you'll need to swap out for your own setup.

The prompt Copy prompt

Run my end-of-day merge debrief. Here's how: Step 1 — Scan this session and pull the existing debrief. - Fetch the file at [YOUR-VAULT]/[YOUR-FOLDER]/debrief_[today's date YYYY-MM-DD].md - Read it fully before doing anything else. - Look through our conversation and note anything worth capturing: documents written, decisions made, tools built, insights that landed. - Note only what is new or different. Compile quietly. Step 2 — Merge quietly. - For each section, check what the new material adds or changes. - Do not remove anything unless new material directly contradicts it. - Keep one clean record. Preserve my voice throughout. Step 3 — Overwrite the existing file. - Overwrite [YOUR-VAULT]/[YOUR-FOLDER]/debrief_[today's date YYYY-MM-DD].md with the merged version. - Do not create a new file. Do not save a download. - Add a "Merged" timestamp under the "Captured" line at the bottom. Keep my voice throughout — this is a note to myself, not a report. After writing, just confirm it landed.

Amber text = swap this out for your own path

Adapting for your setup

Obsidian

Google Drive

Other tools

Replace [YOUR-VAULT]/[YOUR-FOLDER]/ with your actual Obsidian path. If your vault is My Notes and debriefs live in Daily/, use My Notes/Daily/debrief_2026-05-14.md.

You'll need the Obsidian Local REST API plugin installed and Claude connected via MCP. Haven't set that up? See the Obsidian integration guide.

Replace the fetch and overwrite instructions in Steps 1 and 3 with: Use Google Drive to fetch/save the file at [YOUR-FOLDER]/debrief_[today's date].md. The merge logic in Step 2 stays exactly the same.

You'll need Google Drive connected to Claude as an MCP integration. No other changes needed.

The merge logic in Step 2 works with any tool Claude can read and write. Just swap the fetch and save instructions in Steps 1 and 3 for your tool's MCP commands.

No MCP connection? Paste your existing debrief into the chat, ask Claude to merge and return the updated version, then copy it back manually.

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