Life Journal

Record your moods, moments, thoughts, and plans — make every day meaningful.

Life Journal is a beautifully designed Obsidian plugin that turns your vault into a personal journal. With multiple UI styles, 8 color themes, smart date recognition, and image support, it makes recording your life effortless and enjoyable.

Features

📝 Four Recording Tabs

• Mood ✨ — Pick a mood, add a note, and save
• Record 📝 — Capture what happened right now
• Thoughts 💭 — Quick-capture fleeting ideas
• Plans 🗓 — Add to-dos with smart date recognition

📖 Review Mode

• Browse all entries in a beautiful waterfall card layout
• Filter by type: All / Mood / Record / Thoughts / Plans
• Inline tag (#tag) click-to-filter
• Two-way todo sync: check/uncheck tasks directly in review

🎨 Three UI Styles + 8 Color Themes

• Minimal Ink — Clean black & white, paper texture
• Neon Night — Dark immersive, gradient glow
• Soft Blur — Frosted glass, warm gradient (default)

8 color themes: Forest 🌿 / Ocean 🌊 / Desert 🏜️ / Cherry 🌸 / Dusk 🌅 / Midnight 🌙 / Lavender 💜 / Matcha 🍵

🧠 Smart Features

• Natural language date extraction — Type "finish report by this Friday" and the date is auto-detected
• Image support — Paste or upload images directly (Ctrl+V / 📷 button)
• Inline tags — Type #work #study and tags are auto-recognized
• Markdown rendering — Review cards render markdown properly

📱 Mobile Friendly

• Responsive layout adapts to phone screens
• Condensed mood pills (4 moods on mobile)
• Visual viewport keyboard handling

How It Works

Life Journal writes to daily markdown files in your vault (e.g., Daily/2026-05-22.md). Each entry is timestamped and organized under section headings:

# 🌿 心情

- 22:30 😄 开心 — Had a great day today!

# 📝 记录

- 22:35 Finished the Life Journal plugin

# 💭 想法

- 22:40 What if I could track habits too?

# 🗓 计划

**22:45 计划**
- [ ] Finish documentation 📅 2026-05-23
- [x] Write plugin code

All data lives in your vault — no cloud, no lock-in.

Installation

From Obsidian Community Plugins (Recommended)

1. Open Settings → Community Plugins
2. Click Browse to open the community plugin browser
3. Search for "Life Journal"
4. Click Install, then click Enable

Manual Installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Create a folder named life-journal in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory
3. Copy the three files into that folder
4. Restart Obsidian, then go to Settings → Community Plugins and enable Life Journal

Usage

1. After enabling the plugin, click the Life Journal icon in the left sidebar to open the journal panel
2. Choose a tab: Mood ✨ / Record 📝 / Thoughts 💭 / Plans 🗓
3. Type your content and click the Save button — entries are written to daily markdown files in your vault
4. Switch to Review mode (top toggle) to browse past entries in a waterfall card layout
5. In Review mode, click #tags to filter entries, or check/uncheck tasks directly

Configuration

After enabling the plugin, open its settings to configure:

• Diary Folder — Where your daily journal files are stored (default: Daily)
• UI Style — Minimal Ink / Neon Night / Soft Blur
• Color Theme — Choose from 8 beautiful themes
• Section Headings — Customize the heading text for each tab

Plugin Settings

Setting	Default	Description
Diary Folder	Daily	Vault folder for daily markdown files
UI Style	Soft Blur	Visual style of the plugin interface
Color Theme	Forest	Color scheme applied to all UI elements
Mood Heading	🌿 心情	Markdown heading for the Mood section
Record Heading	📝 记录	Markdown heading for the Record section
Thoughts Heading	💭 想法	Markdown heading for the Thoughts section
Plans Heading	🗓 计划	Markdown heading for the Plans section

Compatibility

• Obsidian version: 0.15.0+
• Platforms: Desktop & Mobile
• No internet required: All data is stored locally in your vault

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.

Author

Natural Growth Notes — GitHub

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Life Journal · 中文说明

记录即意义 · 随时记录心情、当下、想法与计划，让生命留有痕迹。

Life Journal 是一款精心设计的 Obsidian 日记插件，多种 UI 风格、8 套配色、智能日期识别、图片上传，让记录生活变得轻松愉悦。

核心功能

📝 四个记录 Tab

• 心情 ✨ — 选心情 + 写备注，一键记录
• 记录 📝 — 记下此刻发生了什么
• 想法 💭 — 捕捉脑中闪过的念头
• 计划 🗓 — 添加待办，智能识别日期

📖 回顾模式

• 瀑布流卡片浏览所有记录
• 按类型筛选：全部 / 心情 / 记录 / 想法 / 计划
• 点击 #标签 快速筛选
• 任务双向同步：回顾中勾选/取消待办

🎨 三套 UI 风格 + 8 套配色

• 极简墨白 — 纸质质感，克制留白
• 霓光深夜 — 暗色沉浸，渐变光晕
• 柔光卡片 — 磨砂玻璃，暖橙紫渐变（默认）

8 套配色：晨林🌿 / 海浪🌊 / 暮沙🏜️ / 樱落🌸 / 暮霞🌅 / 极夜🌙 / 薰衣草💜 / 抹茶🍵

🧠 智能功能

• 自然语义日期 — 输入"本周五完成报告"自动提取截止日期
• 图片支持 — 粘贴或上传图片（Ctrl+V / 📷按钮）
• 行内标签 — 输入 #工作 #学习 自动识别
• Markdown 渲染 — 回顾卡片正确渲染 markdown

📱 移动端适配

• 响应式布局适配手机屏幕
• 移动端心情精简为 4 个
• 视口高度自动适配键盘弹起

安装

从 Obsidian 社区插件市场安装（推荐）

1. 打开 设置 → 第三方插件
2. 搜索 "Life Journal"
3. 点击安装，然后启用

手动安装

1. 从 最新发布 下载 main.js、manifest.json 和 styles.css
2. 在 vault 的 .obsidian/plugins/ 目录下创建 life-journal 文件夹
3. 将三个文件复制到该文件夹
4. 在 设置 → 第三方插件 中启用插件

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