Prism Dashboard

A context-adaptive dashboard for Obsidian that reconfigures itself by time of day, active project, and live priority.

The dashboard reads your vault and reshapes itself across four modes — Morning briefing, Working mode, Evening review, and Night desk — surfacing what matters most right now instead of a static panel.

Features

• Adaptive by time of day — modes shift automatically through morning, day, evening, and night, with a toolbar to override anytime.
• Adaptive by project — "Today's focus" derives the active project from your most recently opened note: its folder, or its frontmatter project: value (falling back to its first tag) when the tag setting is on.
• Live priority ranking — widgets re-rank by urgency (overdue tasks jump to the top), so the most important thing is always at the top of the grid.
• Complete tasks in place — task rows carry a completion ring: click it and Prism checks the task off in the note itself.
• Quick capture — type a thought, press Enter, and it's appended to Capture.md at your vault root.
• Manual refresh — a toolbar button forces a fresh read of the vault, next to a "last updated" timestamp.
• Aurora styling — glass cards, gradient hero, and per-mode color themes, matching light and dark Obsidian themes.

Screenshots

Morning	Day

Evening	Night

Widgets

Widget	Shows	Modes
Open loops	Open tasks, overdue ones first	morning · day · night
Deadlines	Tasks due within ~3 days	morning · day · evening
Work queue	Open tasks by note freshness	day · night
Today's focus	Active project + recent notes in it	morning · day
Quick capture	Inline capture box	all
Touched today	Notes edited today	evening · night
Notes to revisit	Notes untouched 7+ days, still linked	evening · night
Tomorrow's prep	What lands tomorrow	evening · night

Task rows with a ring (Open loops, Work queue, and task deadlines) can be completed in place — click the ring to check the task off in its note.

How the data works

The dashboard reads ordinary Markdown — no separate setup needed.

Tasks feed Open loops, Work queue, and Deadlines. Each open task row shows a completion ring — click it to mark the task done in its note:

- [ ] Call the dentist                       <!-- open task -->
- [x] Book venue for demo                    <!-- done, ignored -->
- [ ] Ship signup flow fix 📅 2026-08-17    <!-- open task with due date -->

Due dates come from the inline 📅 YYYY-MM-DD emoji, or from frontmatter on the note (inherited by its tasks):

---
due: 2026-08-17
---

- [ ] Draft Monday sync agenda

Today's focus tracks your most recent file-open. In Folder mode the active project is that file's parent folder; in Tag mode it's the file's frontmatter project: value, or its first tag when no project is set — and "Today's focus" then shows recent notes carrying the same project or tag.

Notes to revisit is automatic: notes untouched for 7+ days that still have at least one outgoing [[link]].

Quick capture writes each capture as a bullet under Capture.md.

Installation

1. Download the latest release from the releases page.
2. Unzip main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into YourVault/.obsidian/plugins/prism-dashboard/.
3. Reload Obsidian, then enable Prism Dashboard under Settings → Community plugins.
4. Open it via the ribbon icon (dashboard) or the command palette: Open dashboard.

Development

npm install        # install dependencies
npm run dev        # watch mode — rebuilds main.js on change
npm run build      # type-check + production build

The plugin is built with esbuild from TypeScript sources in src/.

License

MIT © 2026 Kerekes Stefan