summarize-standups

❗️NOTE❗️: This project is mostly outdated now that coding agents like Claude Code, etc. are a thing.

summarize-standups is a small Janet script that extracts stand-up logs from Obsidian daily notes, summarizes them with an LLM, and writes out a clean weekly summary per team member.

It's designed to support team leads who:

• Use Obsidian to track daily standups
• Want lightweight weekly summaries for reviews or retros
• Prefer scripting tools that are fast, minimalist, and REPL-friendly

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✨ What it does

• Reads .md files from a folder of Obsidian daily notes
• Extracts the ## Standup section from each day's file
• Groups all updates by team member across the week
• Sends the grouped content to a local LLM (via Fabric)
• Writes a weekly summary file to disk

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📁 Expected folder structure

Your Obsidian daily notes should be organized by date, like:

~/vault/periodic/daily/
├── 2024/
│   └── 12/
│       ├── 2024-12-10.md
│       ├── 2024-12-11.md

Each .md file should include a section like:

## Standup

### Alex
- Investigated integration issues in the payment service

### Taylor
- Implemented pagination in the dashboard UI

### Jordan
- On PTO

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🧑‍💻 Installation

Requires:

• Janet
• Fabric installed and configured with a summarize_standups pattern

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/glpayson/summarize-standups
cd summarize-standups

Set required environment variables:

export DAILIES_DIR=~/vault/periodic/daily
export SPRINTS_DIR=~/vault/summaries

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🚀 Usage

To generate a summary for Nov 24 through Dec 16:

janet summarize-standups.janet 11/24 12/16

This will produce something like:

~/vault/summaries/2024-12-16-summary.md

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⚙️ Notes

• Date inputs can be in MM/DD or YYYY/MM/DD format.
• If no year is specified, the current year is assumed (with logic to handle year rollover for late December to early January).
• Files are expected to be named YYYY-MM-DD.md.

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🛍️ Future ideas

• Slack or email integration
• Support for other Obsidian section formats (callouts, tags, etc.)
• Switching LLM backends

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👥 License

MIT