Astral Student Vault

A polished, ready-to-use Obsidian vault for organizing courses, assignments, weekly priorities, and class notes.

This repository is a privacy-safe template extracted from a real student workflow. The included courses, assignments, notes, and dates are fictional examples. No original coursework, textbooks, lecture files, or personal data are included.

What is included

• A home canvas with live assignment, weekly, and notes views
• Two fictional example courses: BIO101 and HIST210
• Assignment and lecture-note templates
• Course-specific and vault-wide Bases dashboards
• A self-contained “Astral Glass” CSS theme layer
• Sample notes showing useful properties, links, callouts, equations, and tasks
• A setup guide for replacing the examples with your own classes

Requirements

• Obsidian with the Bases, Canvas, and Templates core plugins enabled
• Obsidian 1.9 or newer is recommended
• No community plugins are required

Quick start

1. Download this repository with Code → Download ZIP, then unzip it.
2. In Obsidian, choose Open folder as vault and select the unzipped folder.
3. Open Start Here.md.
4. Replace the example course folders and update the course names in the .base files.
5. Duplicate the templates whenever you create an assignment or class note.

If you use Git, you can instead run:

git clone https://github.com/Galixty318/obsidian-student-vault.git

How the system works

Each assignment is a Markdown file with a small property block:

---
type: assignment
course: BIO101
status: not started
bucket: week
due: 2026-09-04
---

The dashboard files in Dashboards/ automatically collect those properties into sortable views. Change status to in progress or done, and use bucket: week to place something on the weekly focus board.

Folder map

Courses/
  BIO101/
    Assignments/
    Notes/
  HIST210/
    Assignments/
    Notes/
Dashboards/
Templates/
Inbox/
Attachments/

Customize it

• Add a course by copying one of the example course folders.
• Copy its course dashboard and replace the example course code in the filters.
• Adjust colors in .obsidian/snippets/astral-glass.css.
• Disable the visual style under Settings → Appearance → CSS snippets.
• Put images and PDFs you have permission to store in Attachments/.

Privacy and copyright

Before syncing or publishing your own vault, check for names, grades, schedules, account details, private reflections, institutional files, and copyrighted course materials. This template intentionally excludes all of those.

License

The vault structure, original examples, documentation, and CSS in this repository are available under the MIT License. Obsidian is a product of Dynalist Inc. and is not affiliated with this project.