Obsidian dashboard (minimal)

A small Obsidian vault centered on one DataviewJS dashboard:

1. Banner + live date/time
2. Daily todos (dated tasks in daily notes)
3. Month calendar (dots for days with notes)
4. Habits + heatmap (#habit/... checkboxes)
5. My Note (scratch pad synced to each daily note’s Notes section)

Notes stay the source of truth. The dashboard mostly reads; writes go back to today’s note.

Quick start

1. In Obsidian: Open folder as vault → choose the Vault folder.
2. Open START HERE and follow the plugin/setup steps (~10 minutes).
3. Set Homepage to Dashboard (already configured if you keep the bundled Homepage settings).

Until Dataview JavaScript queries are enabled, the dashboard shows a code block. That is expected.

Layout

Vault/
├── Dashboard.md
├── START HERE.md
├── Daily/                         # daily notes land here
├── Habits/Habit Tracker.md
├── Images/Banner/                 # drop your own banner here
├── Images/System Images/          # default banner fallback
├── _templates/Daily Note Template.md
└── .obsidian/                     # snippets + plugin enable list + settings

Required plugins

Install from Obsidian’s community browser (binaries are not shipped):

• Dataview, Tasks, Templater, Calendar, Heatmap Calendar, Homepage

Enable the CSS snippet dashboard.

Bundled .obsidian/plugins/*/data.json files pre-enable Dataview JS, Templater’s _templates folder, and Homepage → Dashboard.

License

Unlicense — public domain. Do what you want with it.