Brain Growth

Brain Growth tracks how your Obsidian vault grows over time. It scans Markdown notes in your vault, keeps daily local snapshots, and shows growth trends in a dashboard and compact side panel.

Features

• Track Markdown note count, body count, tags, and internal links.
• View daily growth snapshots in a dedicated dashboard.
• Compare recent ranges with trend cards and charts.
• Open a resident mini panel in the right sidebar.
• Initialize historical growth from existing vault file metadata.
• Switch dashboard background mode between dark and light.

Screenshots

Dashboard, light mode

Dashboard, dark mode

Mini panel

Usage

After enabling Brain Growth, use the ribbon icon or the command palette command Open Brain Growth Mini Panel.

The plugin refreshes stats when Obsidian starts and when vault changes are detected. Snapshots are stored with the plugin's local data through Obsidian's plugin data API.

Privacy

Brain Growth works locally inside your vault.

• It does not send vault data to remote services.
• It does not include client-side telemetry or analytics.
• It does not require an account.
• It does not access files outside your Obsidian vault.

Installation

From Obsidian community plugins

Once published, install Brain Growth from Settings -> Community plugins -> Browse.

Manual installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest GitHub release.
2. Place them in:

<vault>/.obsidian/plugins/brain-growth/

3. Enable Brain Growth from Obsidian's Community plugins settings.

Development

Install dependencies:

npm install

Build the plugin:

npm run build

Run tests:

npm test

Release

1. Update version in manifest.json and package.json.
2. Run npm run build.
3. Create a GitHub release whose tag exactly matches the manifest version, for example 0.2.4.
4. Upload main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css as release assets.

License

MIT