Bastion for Obsidian

Bastion turns your Obsidian vault into a full command center — AI search, tasks, projects, a calendar, and dashboards — without asking you to restructure a single note. Everything reads from and writes back to plain Markdown files already in your vault.

Learn more, and start a 14-day free trial, at getbastion.app.

This plugin is closed source. This repository distributes compiled releases only — see LICENSE.

Features

• Dashboard — customizable widget grid (drag/resize/hide), per-widget backgrounds, chart-type switching
• Today / Planning Surface — daily planning view, task scheduling
• Vault Explorer — browse, read, and edit notes, plus an Inbox / Health / Rules workflow for capturing new material into a searchable, AI-organized Knowledge Base and keeping it tidy
• AI Assistant — chat against your vault's own content, 7 providers
• Calendar — month/week/day views, synced from Google, Apple, or Microsoft/Exchange
• Task Tracker — synced from 12 sources (Todoist, Apple Reminders, Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Linear, Monday.com, Trello, GitHub Issues, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, TickTick)
• Projects — kanban boards, gantt timelines, progress tracking
• Pomodoro — timers with real Flowtime (open-ended) mode, idle detection, task linking
• CRM (Pro) — contacts, companies, and a deals pipeline in one dashboard, synced from Google/Apple/Exchange contacts, with email thread history and AI-assisted create/update
• Finance (Pro) — wallets, budgets with rollover, savings goals, cash-flow forecasting, net worth tracking, a bill-triage view, and PDF/receipt import with AI-read transactions
• Commerce Dashboards (Pro) — multi-instance store analytics (Etsy, Stripe, Shopify, Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy), each with its own layout
• Invoices — 20 built-in layouts with a theme editor, e-signatures, and print-to-PDF, right from the vault
• Social Media Analytics (Pro) — engagement/follower tracking across YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, Dribbble
• News — a personalized industry feed from sources you configure, AI-ranked, with thumbs-down feedback and save-for-later
• Journal — guided writing templates, mood tracking, streaks, and "on this day" memories
• Web Browser — an in-app browser tab that can clip pages straight into your Knowledge Base
• Terminal — a real PTY-backed terminal panel, not a fake console (Windows Terminal now bundles its own Node runtime — no separate install needed)

Multiple panels can be docked side-by-side (desktop), with saved workspace presets (Focus Mode, custom layouts) and full light/dark theming.

Installing

Option 1 — Community Plugins (recommended)

1. In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins → Browse, and search for Bastion.
2. Click Install, then Enable.

Option 2 — Manual install

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
2. Create a folder named bastion inside your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ folder.
3. Copy the three downloaded files into that folder.
4. In Obsidian, go to Settings → Community plugins, reload, and enable Bastion.

Getting a subscription

Bastion needs a Bastion account to unlock Plus/Pro features. Sign up or start your trial at getbastion.app/pricing, then use Settings → Bastion → Sign in to Bastion inside the plugin to connect it.

Support

Help Center: getbastion.app/help