Cognitive Glow

Cognitive Glow is an Obsidian plugin that shows a sidebar list of notes ranked by a computed glow score.

What it currently does

• Tracks note opens (hitCount, lastOpened) from Obsidian file-open events.
• Computes glowScore from recency + frequency (+ manual gravity only if present in saved note stats).
• Shows a Normal mode (all scored notes) and Focus mode (top N notes).
• Saves stats/settings with Obsidian loadData / saveData.
• Updates tracked paths on rename and removes stats on delete.

Installation (manual)

1. npm install
2. npm run build
3. Copy these files from the repo root into .obsidian/plugins/cognitive-glow/:
   • manifest.json
   • main.js
   • styles.css
4. Enable Cognitive glow in Community Plugins.

Usage

1. Open notes normally in Obsidian.
2. Open the Cognitive glow sidebar view (it auto-opens once on layout ready if no glow view exists).
3. Switch between Normal and Focus.
4. Click a row to open that note.

Command examples

• Dump glow scores to console
  • Logs up to 20 notes sorted by glow score:

[
  { path: "Notes/Project.md", glowScore: 0.73 },
  { path: "Daily/2024-06-01.md", glowScore: 0.51 }
]

• Show persisted data (JSON)
  • Opens a modal with the exact saved payload (version, stats, settings).

Settings

Setting	Default
Focus mode top N	5
Show low-glow notes	true
Recency decay (ms)	259200000 (3 days)
Hit count max scale	20
Max records	3000 (0 disables cap)
Recency weight	0.6
Frequency weight	0.4
Gravity weight	0.0

Data location

• .obsidian/plugins/cognitive-glow/data.json

For implementation details, see 00_SPEC_COGNITIVE_GLOW.md.