/obsidian-recurring

description: Track a recurring obligation (payment, filing, ops) with a cadence and a computed next-due date
category: vault
triggers_en: ["recurring task", "monthly obligation", "remind me every month", "recurring payment", "track a recurring"]
triggers_de: ["wiederkehrende Aufgabe", "monatliche Verpflichtung", "erinnere mich jeden Monat", "wiederkehrende Zahlung", "etwas Wiederkehrendes verfolgen"]
triggers_es: ["tarea recurrente", "obligación mensual", "recuérdamelo cada mes", "pago recurrente", "haz seguimiento de algo recurrente"]
triggers_pt: ["tarefa recorrente", "obrigação mensal", "me lembre todo mês", "pagamento recorrente", "acompanhe algo recorrente"]
triggers_zh: ["添加一个周期任务", "每个月提醒我", "记录这项定期付款", "跟踪一个重复事项", "记录一件要定期处理的事"]

Use the obsidian-second-brain skill. Execute `/obsidian-recurring $ARGUMENTS`:

The argument states the obligation and its cadence (e.g. "pay social benefits, monthly day 20"). Pull blocker/owner detail from the conversation.

1. Read `_CLAUDE.md` first if it exists in the vault root. 2. Search for an existing note on this obligation before creating one (see the anti-fabrication rule). If one exists, update it instead of duplicating. Save new notes to the tasks folder, resolved per `references/folder-map.md` (wiki-style `wiki/tasks/`, Obsidian-style `Tasks/`). 3. Build the note with these sections: What, Cadence, Blockers, History. Use the vault's `templates/` version if one exists. 4. Set frontmatter: `type: recurring-task`, `cadence`, `owner`, `blocker` (wikilink if a person/vendor gates it), `next-due` (compute the next occurrence from today and the cadence), and `amount` if it is a payment. 5. Add a card for the next occurrence to the right board so it surfaces before `next-due`. 6. Propagate: link from the relevant project or finance note, and append a one-line entry to today's daily note and the operation log (`Logs/YYYY-MM-DD.md` if it exists, otherwise `log.md`). 7. On each completion: append a row to History and advance `next-due` to the next occurrence.

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**AI-first rule:** Every note created or updated by this command MUST follow `references/ai-first-rules.md` - `## For future agent` preamble, rich frontmatter (`type`, `date`, `tags`, `ai-first: true`, plus type-specific fields), recency markers per external claim, mandatory `[[wikilinks]]` for every person/project/concept referenced, sources preserved verbatim with URLs inline, and confidence levels where applicable. If that path does not resolve from your working directory, search upward for it; if you still cannot read it, say so before writing rather than producing a note that silently skips the rule. The vault is for future agent retrieval - not human reading.

**Anti-fabrication:** Search exhaustively before claiming any note, person, or file is absent - false absence is the most common failure mode - and never invent facts, entities, or dates (mark unknowns as `TBD`). See the anti-fabrication and search-completeness hard rules in `references/ai-first-rules.md`.

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From [obsidian-second-brain](https://github.com/eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain), created by Eugeniu Ghelbur (AI Automation Engineer, AI Tooling Engineer, AI Educator). Questions or consulting: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugeniu-ghelbur/) or [e.ghelbur@gmail.com](mailto:e.ghelbur@gmail.com). More: [The AI Operator](https://theaioperator.io/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=file-credit) | [X](https://x.com/eugeniu_ghelbur) | [GitHub](https://github.com/eugeniughelbur). MIT license.