Thanks for reading!

Migrating an existing vault isn’t something I’ve poked at too much yet. Running `ruin init --config && ruin doctor` from the directory with your files should set up the proper indexes and note frontmatter, and then you can run `ruin` commands or `lazyruin` from anywhere. Thinking about it, I should probably just have `ruin init` do that automatically w/ a confirmation.

Definitely do it on a copy of your markdown vault / folders. The note content themselves shouldn’t be touched but the files are be read and edited. If you have any frontmatter in those files, that will be updated w/ the ruin-specific values. Existing frontmatter fields should come through unchanged, but the exact order and formatting isn’t guaranteed. Also, currently Ruin and Obsidian (if that is where your notes are coming from) have a different format for storing tags in frontmatter, so that will be annoying duplicated. How compatible I want to be with Obsidian is on the list to think deeper about.

Broadly, this isn’t a workflow I’ve thoroughly tested yet, so your milage may vary. A /skill would also be trivial for Claude to write from the various `--help` outputs to get you going as well.