Atelier Lab

A cinematic, dashboard-first Obsidian vault for students and builders — glass bento panels, a live reading tracker with Open Library search, a career pipeline, and a full-screen lo-fi workspace with rain, focus timer, and music.

Highlights

• Command-center Home — editable greeting + daily focus, task pipeline with real checkboxes, project cards, weekly rhythm
• 9 domain studios — Academics, Programming, Projects, Library, Jobs, Research, Life, People, Culture
• Library — search Open Library by title/author/ISBN, one-click import with cover art, page-level progress, ratings, statuses
• Career studio — application funnel with inline stage changes, interview room
• Lo-fi workspace — three.js rain & dust over an original pixel-city night scene, persisted focus timer, session logging, local-audio playlist
• Universal capture — Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Space from anywhere; typed Create menu with tags + related-note linking
• Auto-skeletons — new notes in domain folders get metadata applied automatically (empty-body, zero intrusion)
• Vault Health — unknown statuses, malformed progress, orphan notes

Setup (5 minutes)

1. git clone this repo, then open the folder as an Obsidian vault
2. Trust the vault → enable community plugins → install the suggested list (all free)
3. Settings → Dataview → enable JavaScript Queries → reload
4. Confirm both snippets (atelier, lofi-scene) are on under Appearance → CSS snippets
5. Open Home. Delete anything tagged #demo whenever you're ready.

Requires desktop Obsidian ≥ 1.5. Internet needed once (plugin install) and for Open Library search; everything else works offline.

Required plugins

Plugin	Why
Dataview	Powers every dashboard — enable JavaScript Queries in its settings
Templater	Auto-applies metadata to new notes in domain folders
Tasks	Task pipelines across dashboards
Homepage	Opens Home on startup
Periodic Notes + Calendar	Daily/weekly/monthly journaling
Style Settings	Snippet toggles
Atelier Tools	Bundled — quick capture (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Space) + typed note creation

Folder map

Folder	Purpose
00 dashboards	Home + one command center per life area
_core/	Shared dashboard runtime (helpers.js) + vendored three.js
_templates/	Rich templates (explicit creation) + light/ auto-skeletons
Domain folders	Books, Projects, Courses, Concepts, People…
Sessions/	Auto-logged Lo-fi focus sessions

Customize

What	Where
Your name / daily focus	Click them on Home
Accent color	Settings → Appearance → accent (#c8895b default)
Reading goal	Library → "Set goal"
Focus music	Drop .mp3/.ogg files anywhere; select on the Lo-fi page

Docs: novel-byte.github.io/atelier-lab

Credits

Built with Dataview, Tasks, Templater, Homepage — and vendored three.js. Layout inspiration from the Obsidian dashboard community.