# AI skills operationalize passive knowledge Notes are a passive medium. They sit in files waiting to be found. You have to remember they exist, find them at the right moment, and figure out how to apply them. That is three friction points too many. [[AI Agent Skills]] are active. They can show up when relevant and apply frameworks to your actual problems. Converting notes into AI skills is the final step of a pipeline that goes from capture to digital to atomic to connected to actionable. The conversion itself from notes to AI skills is straightforward. You can ask any [[AI Agents|AI agent]] to generate a skill from your notes. The key is guiding the agent so that the skill makes sense and is actually useful. For example, if you want an AI skill about [[Atomic Habits]], you would say: read my notes about atomic habits and the closely related concepts, then create an AI skill that helps me acquire a new habit more efficiently. That skill should give advice about how to start, what the simplest version of the habit is, and what the next steps would be. Even with this simple definition, the resulting skill would be quite useful. This is one concrete method to turn [[Wisdom is knowledge put to action|knowledge into wisdom]]: take what you know and make it actively participate in your thinking and decision-making. ## References - ## Related - [[AI Agent Skills]] - [[AI Agents]] - [[Wisdom is knowledge put to action]] - [[Atomic notes]] - [[Isolated notes are dead notes]] - [[From Smart Notes to AI Skills - How to Turn Books Into an Actionable Toolkit (Article)]] - [[Agentic Knowledge Management (AKM)]] - [[How I leverage my Notes with AI]] - [[reMarkable Sync plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Transcriber plugin for Obsidian]]