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Triage

Triage is an Obsidian plugin for resurfacing unprocessed notes in an Anki-style triage queue before they disappear into the vault.

Every vault accumulates loose material: fleeting notes, literature notes, clippings, and pages that never got a tag or a category. Triage gathers eligible notes into a scrolling queue of cards so I can make a quick, low-stakes decision about each one: keep it, snooze it, delete it, or open it and actually process the note.

What it does

  • Builds an Anki-style triage queue from notes that match configurable include and exclude filters.
  • Shows content-rich note cards with actual previews, not just titles.
  • Expands cards in place to a rendered note body when more context is needed.
  • Supports keyboard-first review with shortcuts for focus, expand, snooze, keep, and clear snooze.
  • Snoozes notes for configurable intervals and brings them back on concrete due dates.
  • Marks kept notes through configurable frontmatter fields, tags, or frontmatter values.
  • Hands delete actions to Obsidian’s built-in delete prompt instead of deleting silently.
  • Keeps all state in note frontmatter, with configurable field names.

How it fits

Triage is for notes that are not quite tasks. A task manager is the wrong place for a clipped paragraph, a half-formed idea, or a literature note that needs a category. Leaving those notes alone is not much better; they fade into search results and backlinks until I forget why I saved them.

The plugin borrows some ergonomics from Anki: focused cards, numbered decisions, and intervals that feel quick enough to use. It is not a spaced-repetition tool, though. There is no memory model or ease factor. Snooze writes a plain due date to frontmatter, and the note returns when that date arrives.

That keeps the system compatible with Plaintext Commons: the plugin adds a useful review surface, but the notes remain ordinary Markdown files with inspectable metadata.