What problem does it solve? Preparing for live lectures requires manually converting slide decks into note-taking worksheets, which is tedious and error-prone. This Skill automates the creation of structured, slide-by-slide scratchpad notes in Obsidian so students can focus on capturing spoken content in real time. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Automated Slide Rendering: Converts each PDF slide into a PNG image at configurable DPI using poppler utilities. - Structured Worksheet Generation: Produces an Obsidian markdown note with YAML frontmatter, embedded slide images, and blank sections for takeaways and questions per slide. - Metadata Inference: Automatically detects course name, lecture/week label, and note title from file paths, with CLI overrides. - Use Case: Before a university lecture, run the script on the week's slide deck PDF to instantly get a clean worksheet note in your vault, ready for in-class annotation. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to generate a lecture scratchpad note from your slides PDF, specifying the PDF path and the target note location in your Obsidian vault.
