URL to Source note with summary and key ideas

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Takes a URL and creates a structured Source note in Atoms/Sources/ with title, author, type, summary, key ideas, and highlights. Automatically detects content type (YouTube via transcript, article, tweet) before asking for consumption status and suggesting links to existing maps or concepts.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
ProductivityBeginner
606/2/2026
Claude Code
#url#source-note#note-taking#knowledge-management

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Our review

Automatically creates a structured source note from a URL, with summary, key ideas, and highlights.

Strengths

  • Automates extraction of metadata (title, author, year) from various content types (articles, videos, tweets)
  • Provides a summary, key ideas, and relevant quotes
  • Integrates the note into an organized file system (Atoms/Sources/) with suggestions for connections

Limitations

  • May fail on complex or protected sites (e.g., Twitter/X) requiring manual extraction
  • Requires human validation of extracted metadata
  • Depends on web content accessibility (paywalls, heavy JavaScript)
When to use it

When you find a useful online resource and want to capture its essence in your note system.

When not to use it

For very short content, or when you need quick analysis without formal structure.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score85/100

The skill uses only read and write operations to extract web content and create local notes. No destructive, exfiltrating, or obfuscated actions. It does not execute external commands or bypass safety measures.

No concerns found

Examples

Save an article
Save this article about AI ethics: https://example.com/ai-ethics
Take notes on a video
Take notes on this YouTube video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123
Archive a tweet
Archive this tweet: https://twitter.com/user/status/123

name: url description: URL → Source note with summary, key ideas, and highlights allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, WebSearch, AskUserQuestion, Skill, ToolSearch

The user gives you a URL. Your job is to extract the content and create a well-structured Source note.

Input: $ARGUMENTS

Step 1: Receive URL

If $ARGUMENTS is empty, ask:

What URL do you want to save?

Step 2: Detect type and extract content

Detect the URL type and use the right strategy:

| Type | Detection | Strategy | |------|-----------|----------| | YouTube | youtube.com/watch, youtu.be/ | Use skill youtube-transcript for transcription + WebFetch for metadata | | Twitter/X | twitter.com, x.com | WebFetch (may fail, extract what you can) | | Article/Blog | Everything else | WebFetch to extract content |

Extract:

  • Title of the content
  • Author (if identifiable)
  • Year of publication
  • Type: article, video, podcast, paper, tweet
  • Key ideas (3-5 main points)
  • Highlights (interesting direct quotes)

Step 3: Present metadata for confirmation

Show what you extracted and ask if it looks right.

Step 4: Status

Ask:

Have you already consumed this, or is it for later?

  • completed — Already read/watched
  • to-consume — For later

Step 5: Create Source note

Check first if a similar note already exists in Atoms/Sources/ (by title or URL).

Create the note at Atoms/Sources/Title - Author.md using the exact template from x/Templates/Source.md:

---
date: YYYY-MM-DD
type: [article/video/podcast/paper/tweet]
author: [author]
year: [year]
status: [to-consume/completed]
in:
url: [the original URL]
---
## Overview

[2-3 sentence summary]

## Key ideas
- [idea 1]
- [idea 2]
- [idea 3]

## Highlights
> [quote 1]

> [quote 2]

If no author: just Title.md. Clean special characters from the title.

Step 6: Suggest connections

  1. Maps: Check existing Maps in Maps/. Suggest the in field.
  2. Things: Suggest if any key idea deserves its own note in Atoms/Things/. Don't create automatically — just suggest.
  3. Wait for confirmation before applying.
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