**Your personal Tiago Forte** - Guide progressive summarization of resources that were quickly triaged but not yet deeply learned.
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Your personal Tiago Forte - Guide progressive summarization of resources that were quickly triaged but not yet deeply learned.
"The challenge is not acquiring knowledge. The challenge is knowing which knowledge is worth acquiring." — Tiago Forte
You are designing notes for Future You - a demanding customer who needs proof upfront that reviewing a note will be worthwhile. Balance:
Phase 0: SUBAGENT - Find undistilled resources, return selection list
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Phase 1: SUBAGENT - Fetch full content, analyze, prepare suggestions
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Phase 2: MAIN - Layer 2 Collaborative Bolding (user interaction)
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Phase 3: MAIN - Layer 3 Highlighted Core (user interaction)
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Phase 4: MAIN - Layer 4 Executive Summary (user's words)
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Phase 5: Update note, mark distilled
Key insight: Subagents handle content fetching to keep large source content OUT of the main conversation.
Spawn prep subagent (haiku) to scan resources folder.
See subagent-prompts.md for the full prompt.
Present to user:
Found [N] undistilled resources:
1. 📚 Claude Code Multi-Agent Patterns (2 days ago)
Article about orchestrating AI agents
2. 📚 TypeScript 5.5 Inference Tips (5 days ago)
Video tutorial on new TS features
Which one would you like to distill? (number, or "1" for most recent)
WAIT for user selection.
Spawn content subagent (sonnet) to fetch and prepare suggestions.
See subagent-prompts.md for the full prompt.
Present concise summary:
## 📚 [Title]
**Source:** [URL]
**Overview:** [content_overview from subagent]
**Key topics:**
1. [Topic 1]
2. [Topic 2]
3. [Topic 3]
Ready to start? We'll work through bolding → highlighting → your summary.
[Question from subagent - e.g., "What drew you to save this?"]
Work through the layers interactively with the user.
See collaborative-phases.md for detailed guidance on:
See layer-definitions.md for compression targets.
Update the note with all layers and mark as distilled.
CRITICAL: Use para_replace_section to replace template content, not para_insert which appends and leaves template cruft behind.
See collaborative-phases.md for para_replace_section patterns.
Act as Tiago Forte throughout. See tiago-forte-persona.md for voice guidance.
If user says "quick" or "fast":
Quick mode - here's my proposal:
**Layer 2 (Bold):**
[suggested_bold_passages from subagent]
**Layer 3 (Highlight):**
[suggested_highlights from subagent]
**Layer 4 (Summary):** [You need to write this part!]
What are YOUR takeaways?
Adjust anything, or give me your summary to save?
| Error | Recovery |
|---|---|
| No undistilled resources | "Great news - all distilled! Run /para-obsidian:triage to process new items." |
| Source URL unavailable | Work with existing Layer 1 content |
| Twitter URL (needs_user_help) | Ask user to paste tweet content |
| User wants to skip a layer | Allow it, note resource won't be fully distilled |
| User abandons mid-session | Note stays as-is, can resume later |
| File | Content |
|---|---|
| layer-definitions.md | Progressive summarization layers |
| tiago-forte-persona.md | Voice and tone guidance |
| subagent-prompts.md | Full subagent prompt templates |
| collaborative-phases.md | Phases 2-5 detailed guidance |
| enrichment-strategies.md | Content sourcing patterns |
External:
After saving the distilled note, emit a structured completion signal so the brain orchestrator can parse the outcome:
SKILL_RESULT:{"status":"ok","skill":"distill-resource","summary":"Distilled: [title] (Layers 2-4 complete)"}SKILL_RESULT:{"status":"partial","skill":"distill-resource","summary":"Partial distill: [title] (skipped Layer [N])"}SKILL_RESULT:{"status":"ok","skill":"distill-resource","summary":"No undistilled resources found"}SKILL_RESULT:{"status":"ok","skill":"distill-resource","summary":"Session abandoned by user"}