article2book

Reorganizes existing articles, transcripts, and notes into books, courses, manuals, or knowledge bases.

636|91|Updated Jan 7, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/cat-xierluo/legal-skills --skill article2book
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Skill: article2book
Source: https://github.com/cat-xierluo/legal-skills/tree/main/skills/article2book
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/cat-xierluo/legal-skills --skill article2book

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill includes scripts (resource) and references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve?

Writers and knowledge workers often accumulate large folders of articles, lecture transcripts, interview notes, and meeting minutes without knowing whether this material can become a book, a course, or something else. This Skill reads through the entire content collection, judges the best product form, filters out low-value material, and produces a concrete restructuring plan followed by a full draft.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Content Form Judgment: Evaluates whether material best fits a book, booklet, course, article series, practical manual, knowledge base, or should not be productized yet, using a scored viability rubric.
  • Two-Stage Delivery: First outputs a single planning opinion document (书稿策划意见.md) covering theme, audience, structure, and cut/merge decisions; after user confirmation, generates the corresponding full draft.
  • Full-Text Reading with Script Assist: The agent reads all readable text assets in batches, while an optional Python script builds an inventory index (CSV/JSONL/Markdown) for path checking and preprocessing flags for .docx and .pdf files.
  • Use Case: A lawyer has 80 WeChat articles, livestream transcripts, and case notes in one folder. The Skill reads everything, concludes the material suits a practical manual rather than a book, delivers a planning opinion, then drafts the manual after approval.

Quick Start

Read all the articles and transcripts in my content folder, judge whether they can be organized into a book, and give me a planning proposal with the best content form and structure.

Frequently Asked Questions about article2book

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I turn my existing articles into a book?

Point the Skill at your content folder and it reads all readable text files, filters low-value material, identifies the core theme, and outputs a planning opinion with a proposed structure. After you confirm, it generates a full book draft from the existing material.

How to decide between writing a book, course, or knowledge base from my notes?

The Skill applies a content productization model and a seven-dimension viability rubric covering theme concentration, audience clarity, content depth, and timeliness. It recommends the best form with reasons and suggests alternatives when a book is not suitable.

Can it process Word documents and PDF files?

Word and PDF files are flagged as needing preprocessing in the inventory script rather than parsed directly. Extract their text to Markdown or TXT first, or use OCR for scanned PDFs, then they enter the full reading workflow.

What output files does the content restructuring produce?

By default it produces a single planning opinion file in a 书稿策划输出 folder inside your source directory. After confirmation it generates one draft file matching the recommended form, such as a full book draft, course outline, or manual draft.

When should I not use this content reorganization approach?

Avoid it when you only need a file listing, want to continue an existing finished outline, or are starting a book from scratch with no existing material. It also cannot handle audio, video, or image files until they are transcribed into text.