Supernovae Tab — Obsidian Plugin

A galaxy-themed new tab experience for Obsidian. Every new tab opens an animated starfield with your time, greeting, search, recent files, and more — all floating in deep space.

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Features

New Tab — Galaxy View

Every new empty tab is replaced by the galaxy view:

• Animated starfield — twinkling stars, a shooting star, and color nebulae (violet + blue)
• Constellation lines — stars connected to their nearest neighbors, softly pulsing
• Ringed planet — a blue gas giant with a perspective ring in the corner
• Live clock — large Orbitron display, 12h or 24h format
• Date — displayed below the clock
• Greeting — personalized message with time-of-day and your name
• Search bar — opens your preferred search plugin
• Recent files — your 5 most recently edited notes
• Bookmarks — from all bookmarks or a specific group
• Quote — a random quote from the built-in list or your own custom quotes

Home Dashboard

Create a note named Home.md in your vault. Whenever you open it, Supernovae Tab intercepts the navigation and displays a dedicated Home Dashboard instead:

• Same galaxy background as the new tab
• Navigation buttons — configurable links to your key notes and folders
• Recent files — your 5 most recently edited notes
• Active projects — automatically lists notes with Type: Project and status: active in their frontmatter
• Tab protection — clicking any file from the Home Dashboard opens it in a new tab, preserving the Home view

Tip: Use {{today}} as a navigation link path to automatically open today's daily note (format YYYY-MM-DD).

A pencil button (✏️) in the view header lets you edit Home.md directly without leaving the dashboard workflow.

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Mobile support

⚠️ Supernovae Tab is not stable on phones and tablets yet (iOS and Android): the animated view can exhaust the mobile app's memory.

Since 1.2.0 the plugin is disabled on mobile by default: it only keeps its settings tab there, and new tabs stay Obsidian's default. You can turn Settings → Supernovae Tab → Disable on mobile off at your own risk (restart the app to apply). Desktop is unaffected.

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Installation

Via Community Plugins (recommended)

1. Open Obsidian Settings → Community Plugins
2. Search for Supernovae Tab
3. Click Install, then Enable

Manual

1. Download the latest release from GitHub Releases
2. Copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into your vault at .obsidian/plugins/supernovae-tab/
3. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community Plugins

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Settings

All settings are available under Settings → Supernovae Tab.

Section	Options
Mobile	Disable the plugin on phones and tablets (on by default)
Search	Show/hide top-left search button and inline search bar; choose the search provider plugin
Time	Show/hide the clock; 12-hour or 24-hour format
Greeting	Your name (used via {{name}}); show/hide greeting; custom greeting text
Recent files	Show/hide the recent files section
Bookmarks	Show/hide bookmarks; display all bookmarks or a specific group
Home Dashboard	Edit the navigation links list
Quotes	Show/hide quotes; choose between built-in quotes, your own, or both

Greeting placeholders

Placeholder	Value
{{greeting}}	Time-of-day greeting (e.g. Good morning)
{{name}}	Your name from settings (fallback: explorer)

Supported search providers

• Obsidian Core Quick Switcher
• Omnisearch
• Another Quick Switcher
• Quick Switcher++

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Home Dashboard — Active Projects

Supernovae Tab automatically surfaces your active projects without any manual configuration. Just add this frontmatter to a note:

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Type: Project
status: active
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It will appear in the Active projects section of your Home Dashboard.

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Credits

• Inspired by Beautitab by Andrew McGivery (MIT License) — architecture and plugin structure
• Font: Orbitron via Google Fonts
• Part of the Nebulux visual ecosystem

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Reporting Issues

Open an issue on GitHub with as much detail as possible — Obsidian version, plugin version, and a screenshot if relevant.

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License

MIT