Notion inbox datacore Feed

Description

A live activity feed for your Obsidian vault styled like a social inbox, showing recently created or modified notes grouped by recency. Built with Datacore JSX.

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What it does

• Scans a configurable list of source folders for Markdown notes
• Groups them into Recent (Last 3 Days), Past 7 Days, and Monthly buckets
• Shows each note with:
  • A letter avatar derived from its folder (customisable)
  • The note name and relative timestamp ("2 days ago", "last week", etc.)
  • The folder path as breadcrumb subtext
• Each group is a collapsible <details> element; open/closed state persists across sessions via localStorage
• Clicking any row opens the note in a new tab
• Reactively re-renders on vault changes (create / delete / rename / modify)

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Requirements

Dependency	Notes
Datacore plugin	Core renderer enable in Community Plugins
inbox-datacore-feed.css snippet	Included in snippets/ copy to .obsidian/snippets/

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Installation

1. Install Datacore from Community Plugins (search "Datacore").
2. Copy snippets/inbox-datacore-feed.css ? your vault's .obsidian/snippets/ folder.
3. In Obsidian ? Settings ? Appearance ? CSS Snippets, enable inbox-datacore-feed.
4. Copy Inbox Datacore Feed.md anywhere in your vault (e.g. a Dashboards/ folder).
5. Open the note the feed renders immediately.

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Configuration

All settings live at the top of the datacorejsx block:

// Folders to scan for activity. Any note whose path starts with
// one of these prefixes appears in the feed.
const SOURCE_FOLDERS = [
  "Inbox/",
  "Projects/",
  "Notes/",
];

Change these to match your vault's structure. For example:

const SOURCE_FOLDERS = [
  "Journal/",
  "Areas/",
  "Resources/",
];

Avatar labels

The getLabel(folder) function maps folder names to the single-letter initials shown in each row's avatar. Customise it to match your folders:

const getLabel = (folder) => {
  const lower = folder.toLowerCase();
  if (lower.includes("project")) return "P";
  if (lower.includes("journal")) return "J";
  if (lower.includes("inbox"))   return "I";
  return folder.charAt(0).toUpperCase() || "N";
};

Date priority

The view picks the "date" of each note by trying frontmatter fields in this order, then falling back to file system timestamps:

published ? date ? created ? received ? modified ? updated ?
last_modified ? lastUpdated ? file.mtime ? file.ctime

If none of these exist, the note is excluded from the feed.

Group time buckets

Change the cutoffs by editing the grouping logic in the InboxFeed component:

if (diffDays <= 3) grouped["Recent (Last 3 Days)"].push(entry);
else if (diffDays <= 7) grouped["Past 7 Days"].push(entry);
else grouped["Monthly"].push(entry);

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CSS snippet

snippets/inbox-datacore-feed.css styles the feed layout. All selectors are scoped to .inbox-feed so they will not affect other notes. Theme variables (--text-accent, --background-modifier-hover, etc.) are used throughout, so the feed adapts automatically to light/dark themes and custom themes.

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License

MIT use freely, modify, share.

Attached Snippets

• snippets/inbox-datacore-feed.css - inbox-datacore-feed

Screenshots

Installation

1. Download the .md file(s) from this repo
2. Place them in your vault
3. Copy the attached CSS snippet files into your vault's CSS snippets folder
4. Enable them in Settings > Appearance > CSS Snippets

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