Project Cockpit

An Obsidian plugin that replaces the new tab with a project dashboard — all your active work at a glance.

Documentation & changelog

Features

• Stats bar — active projects, open TODOs, journal entries this week, current streak
• Projects — cards with status badges (Active / Paused / Done), TODO count, and last-modified time; filter by status
• Open TODOs — all unchecked - [ ] items across your projects, grouped by project; click to check off inline or jump to the line
• Recently edited — last files you touched, with project label and relative time; optionally point at a dedicated sessions folder
• Pinned notes — quick access to any vault files you pin; configure paths in settings
• Tags overview — top tags across your vault as clickable chips; click to search
• Journal heatmap — GitHub-style activity grid for the last 52 weeks with streak counter
• Graph — force-directed graph of links between project files; drag, zoom, pan, double-click to reset
• Most linked — the 7 most-referenced files in your projects folder
• Quick actions — fully configurable buttons to create files from templates
• All sections are individually togglable and reorderable from settings; collapse state is persisted per section

Installation

Community Plugin Store

Search for Project Cockpit in Settings → Community Plugins.

Manual

1. Download main.js, styles.css, and manifest.json from the latest release.
2. Copy them into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/project-cockpit/.
3. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community Plugins.

Configuration

Open Settings → Project Cockpit:

Setting	Default	Description
Projects folder	01_Projekte/	Root folder scanned for project subfolders and hub files
Sessions folder	(empty)	Override folder for "Recently edited" — leave empty to scan projects folder
Journal folder	04_Journal/	Folder of daily notes for the heatmap
Quick actions	3 defaults	Configurable label, template path, and filename prefix per button
Pinned notes	(empty)	List of vault-relative paths to always-accessible notes
Sections	all on	Toggle and reorder each section independently
Open on new tab	on	Replace empty new tabs with the cockpit view

Project structure

Each project is a subfolder inside your projects folder. The hub file is a sibling .md with the same name as the folder:

01_Projekte/
  My-Project/             ← session and note files
    Session-2026-04-17.md
    notes.md
  My-Project.md           ← hub file (frontmatter: status: active)

Supported status values: active / aktiv, paused / pause, done / abgeschlossen.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm dev        # watch mode
pnpm build      # production build
pnpm typecheck  # TypeScript
pnpm lint       # ESLint

The plugin folder is symlinked into a local Obsidian vault for live testing.

License

MIT