Obsidian Dashboard

High-end web dashboard for your local Obsidian vault. Inspired by Rowboat.

Features

• Dashboard — vault stats, recent notes, folder breakdown
• Projects — card view of all notes in Projects/ folder
• Knowledge — browse and read notes with rendered markdown + backlinks
• Graph View — interactive galaxy/constellation force graph with glowing nodes
• Search — full-text search across all notes
• Dark / Light theme toggle
• Live reload — vault changes in Obsidian reflect in the dashboard automatically (WebSocket)

Tech Stack

Layer	Tech
API	Golang + Gin + gorilla/websocket
File watch	fsnotify
Markdown	goldmark
Frontend	Next.js 16 + shadcn/ui + Tailwind
Graph	react-force-graph-2d
Theme	next-themes

Setup

Prerequisites

• Go 1.21+
• Node.js 18+
• An Obsidian vault at ~/Documents/Obsidian Vault/ (configurable via VAULT_PATH env)

Run

Terminal 1 — API:

cd api
go run main.go
# Running on http://localhost:8080

Terminal 2 — UI:

cd web
npm install
npm run dev
# Running on http://localhost:3000

Open localhost:3000.

Custom vault path

VAULT_PATH=/path/to/your/vault go run main.go

API Endpoints

Method	Path	Description
GET	/api/notes	All notes with metadata
GET	/api/note/*path	Single note (rendered HTML)
GET	/api/projects	Notes in Projects/ folder
GET	/api/graph	Graph nodes + edges
GET	/api/search?q=	Full-text search
GET	/api/stats	Vault statistics
WS	/ws	Live vault change events