Aphorisms
Curated aphorism collection with CRUD: content-based matching, themed search, thinker...
Install
npx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill Aphorisms -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- danielmiessler/LifeOS19.7k
- Category
- Marketing
- Updated
- 8d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,052 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Curated aphorism collection with CRUD: content-based matching, themed search, thinker research, and usage tracking to avoid repeating quotes. USE WHEN aphorism, quote, find a quote, research thinker, add aphorism, quote for newsletter, what did X say about, quote bank. NOT FOR creative writing, social posts, or the principal's own published words.
Aphorisms
Contents: Ideal State · Intent Routing · Data & Config · Database · Taxonomy · Gotchas · Examples
Curated aphorism store with full CRUD. Its main job is a newsletter's recurring quote (an Aphorism of the Week, say): candidate quotes matched to that edition's themes that avoid recently used ones. It also adds quotes, searches the collection, and researches a thinker's quotes. Every intent reads and writes one collection file (§ Database), whose Theme Index and Newsletter Usage History keep quotes findable and fresh.
Ideal State
- Every quote the skill returns or stores is attributed and verified: a misattributed or unverifiable quote is marked Unknown or Disputed, never asserted.
- Recommendations and search results match the request's themes, tone and query, best first (recommendations with their scores), and recommendations avoid quotes with a recent recorded use.
- Every addition, research batch and newsletter use lands in the database in the entry formats under § Database, with the Theme Index and the usage history updated in the same pass, so the other intents find it immediately.
Intent Routing
| Intent | Trigger | File |
|---|---|---|
| FindAphorism | Find aphorism, quote for newsletter, Aphorism of the Week, match aphorism, suggest quote, aphorism recommendation, "what quote fits this", an opening or closing quote for a newsletter | Intents/FindAphorism.md |
| AddAphorism | Add quote, add aphorism, save quote, new aphorism, store quote | Intents/AddAphorism.md |
| ResearchThinker | Research thinker, find quotes from, what did X say, thinker quotes on, "find [author] aphorisms", building out a thinker section | Intents/ResearchThinker.md |
| SearchAphorisms | Search aphorisms, find quotes on, quotes about, quotes matching, what aphorisms, "show me [keyword] quotes", browsing for inspiration before the newsletter theme is known | Intents/SearchAphorisms.md |
