Generate Obsidian Flavored Markdown

Obsidian Flavored Markdown Skill creates and edits valid Obsidian Flavored Markdown - Obsidian's extensions on top of CommonMark and GFM, covering wikilinks, embeds, callouts, frontmatter properties, comments, and other Obsidian-specific syntax. It assumes standard Markdown (headings, bold, italic, lists, quotes, code blocks, tables) as known and covers only the Obsidian-specific extensions.

Use this when writing or editing Markdown notes intended for Obsidian, when the task involves wikilinks, embeds, callouts, frontmatter properties, or other Obsidian-specific syntax, or when notes need to render correctly inside an Obsidian vault.

The note-creation workflow: add frontmatter properties (title, tags, aliases) at the top of the file; write content in standard Markdown plus Obsidian syntax; link related notes with wikilinks [[Note]], which Obsidian tracks through renames automatically, reserving plain Markdown links for external URLs; embed content from other notes, images, or PDFs by prefixing a wikilink with !, e.g. ![[Note Name#Heading]] for a section or ![[document.pdf#page=3]] for a PDF page; add callouts for highlighted information with > [!type] syntax, where common types include note, tip, warning, info, example, quote, bug, danger, success, failure, question, abstract, and todo, with -/+ for collapsed or expanded; and verify the note renders correctly in reading view. Wikilinks also support custom display text ([[Note|Text]]), heading links ([[Note#Heading]]), and block links via a ^block-id appended to a paragraph or placed on its own line after a list or quote.

Frontmatter properties are written as YAML, with tags, aliases, and cssclasses available by default; inline tags use #tag or nested #tag/subtag syntax and can also live in the tags property. Additional syntax covers hidden comments (%%hidden%%), ==highlighted text==, inline and block LaTeX math ($e^{i\pi}+1=0$, $$...$$), Mermaid diagrams in fenced code blocks, with class NodeName internal-link; to link a diagram node to an Obsidian note, and footnotes ([^1] plus a matching definition, or an inline ^[...] footnote). Deeper detail for each area lives in companion reference files: PROPERTIES.md, EMBEDS.md, and CALLOUTS.md.

Anyone writing or editing notes for an Obsidian vault who needs correct syntax for internal linking, embedding, callouts, structured frontmatter, and Obsidian-only extensions like highlights, Mermaid diagrams, and footnotes, built on top of assumed standard-Markdown knowledge. A worked example ties these together: a project note with YAML frontmatter (title, date, tags, a custom status field), a wikilink to a related note, an [!important] callout with a highlighted deadline, a nested markdown task list, inline LaTeX, an embedded image sized with |600, and a link into a specific heading of a meeting-notes file.