Easy Dashboard

Easy Dashboard is an Obsidian plugin that generates a polished home dashboard with quick actions, recent notes, folders, tags, and supporting views.

It packages the workflow into something people can install without manually copying long dataviewjs snippets.

Features

• Generates a home dashboard note
• Opens the dashboard automatically on startup
• Shows a time-based greeting
• Adds a search shortcut
• Adds quick action buttons for new notes, inbox, and map
• Shows recent notes as cards
• Shows folder shortcuts as cards
• Hides system folders from the folder list
• Shortens Sort/... folders to their final folder name in the UI
• Shows tag shortcuts
• Generates separate folder and tag browser pages
• Adds commands for opening and regenerating the dashboard
• Can still connect to the Homepage community plugin if someone wants that setup

Requirements

• Dataview is required
• Templater is optional
• Homepage is optional and no longer required for startup behavior

Installation

Manual install

1. Download manifest.json, main.js, and versions.json
2. Create a folder named easy-dashboard inside your vault's .obsidian/plugins/
3. Put the files into that folder
4. Enable the plugin in Obsidian community plugins

GitHub release install

1. Download the latest release assets
2. Extract the plugin files
3. Put manifest.json, main.js, and versions.json into .obsidian/plugins/easy-dashboard/
4. Enable the plugin in Obsidian

Setup

1. Enable Dataview
2. Open Settings -> Easy Dashboard
3. Set your preferred note paths, inbox folder, template, and optional map note
4. Make sure Open on startup is enabled if you want the dashboard to replace Homepage
5. Click Generate

Commands

• Generate or update dashboard files
• Open dashboard
• Connect dashboard to Homepage plugin

Notes

• The plugin generates markdown notes that contain dataviewjs, so users can still tweak the layout after installation.
• The default paths in this repo reflect Anna's personal vault structure. Other users should review the settings after installation and change paths to match their own vault.

License

MIT