life-template

A minimal Obsidian vault template for personal and work life management — goals, daily habits, todos, and a knowledge layer (notes, references, projects). Inspired by kepano's vault structure.

This repo is a template, not a vault. It contains no personal data. Your data lives in your own private copy.

Getting started

• Click Use this template → create a new private repo (e.g. my-life)
• Clone it: git clone git@github.com:YOU/my-life.git && cd my-life
• Run bash scaffold.sh — creates your todo files, reference indexes, today's daily note, and sets git up to track your personal data
• Open the folder as an Obsidian vault
• Replace the placeholder habits in _templates/daily.md with your own

Daily use

• Morning — run bash next.sh: today's habits and todos, plus your goal focus before 10:00
• Capture — meetings → meetings/, ideas → notes/, people and books → references/, multi-week initiatives → projects/
• Evening — tick habits in daily/YYYYMMDD.md, archive completed todos, move unfinished ones to todo/2-soon.md or drop them
• Friday — next.sh creates your weekly review in notes/
• Monday — next.sh reminds you to groom the backlog and review active projects

Structure

goals/        half-year direction
daily/        one file per day — habits + reflection
todo/         all tasks (work + personal)
projects/     ongoing multi-week initiatives
meetings/     meeting notes (work + personal)
notes/        ideas, decisions, evergreen thoughts
references/   people, books, movies, articles
HOME.md       navigation index
_templates/   all templates

Plugins

Recommended: QuickAdd (one-keystroke capture), Templater (auto-fills dates — optional), Shell Commands (run next.sh from Obsidian). Obsidian Bases is built-in.

License

MIT

For the full design (naming conventions, frontmatter schema, Bases wiring, .gitignore behavior), see ARCHITECTURE.md.