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Dashboard Hub puts Obsidian Bases, files, Kanban boards, Calendars, Timelines, web pages, reading memos, and encrypted secrets in one responsive dashboard. Supported actions such as moving a Kanban card or saving a memo can also be recorded in a dated Markdown Timeline.
It works without an AI account, API key, or external database.
Activity Timeline
You can post directly to a Timeline with tags, wikilinks, pinned posts, filters, and image attachments. Dashboard Hub can also add entries for these actions:
| When you… | The Timeline records |
|---|---|
| Drag a Kanban card to a new column | The board, a link to the note, and old status → new status |
| Reschedule a Calendar event | The event summary and old date → new date |
| Create, edit, or delete a reading memo | The action, a link to the source document, and the memo with its quote |
| Write a post yourself | Whatever you wrote — a note to self, what you're working on, why you changed your mind |
Entries are stored as Obsidian callouts in
<Base directory>/Timeline/<name>/YYYY-MM-DD.md, one file per day. Calendar
shows events and posts from a selected Timeline in a monthly view. Automatic
memo, Kanban, and Calendar activity uses the global Activity Timeline name,
which defaults to Timeline.
Secret Manager
Secret Manager stores API keys, tokens, and other values as .encrypted files
under Secrets/ by default. Secrets can be searched by name and public metadata,
copied, and edited in place. The password is cached in memory for the session.
It uses hybrid encryption: the public key can encrypt a value without a password, but the password-protected private key is required to decrypt it. Secret Manager is intended for convenient access inside a vault, not as a replacement for a dedicated password manager.
Reading memos
Open a PDF, EPUB, or Markdown note in the File widget, select text, and save a memo with its quote context. Saved ranges are highlighted while the memo panel is open, and selecting a memo jumps back to the source. MemoList provides a searchable index, and memo changes are recorded in the activity Timeline.
Dashboards and layout
Widgets can be moved, resized, maximized, and configured. Layout changes support undo and redo, and widgets can be arranged into equal rows or columns. A small-screen layout is generated automatically. Changes are saved as you edit.
Each dashboard is stored as a readable YAML .dashboard file with a documented
schema. It can be inspected, versioned, searched, and backed up like other vault
files.
Widgets
| Widget | What it brings to your dashboard |
|---|---|
| Timeline | Your activity log: automatic entries from other widgets plus your own posts, with tags, wikilinks, pinned posts, filters, and image attachments. |
| Calendar | Events and activity from a Timeline, collected into a monthly view with day details. Rescheduling logs back to the Timeline. |
| Kanban | Notes grouped by a frontmatter status field. Dragging a card updates the source note and records the change. Board definitions are reusable across dashboards. |
| Secret Manager | Password-protected .encrypted files: search, unlock, copy, edit in place, and per-secret metadata. |
| File | Markdown, text, HTML, images, PDF, EPUB, code, CSV, and more. Plain-text formats can be edited inline; PDF, EPUB, and Markdown support quote-linked memos. |
| MemoList | A searchable index of reading memos stored under the configured Base directory. |
| Base | Obsidian's native Bases tables, cards, and lists, with an editor for the first view. |
| Web Embed | Any embeddable HTTP or HTTPS page, with a quick link to open it in the browser. |
| Workflow | Run a connected Hub workflow and keep its Markdown or HTML output on the dashboard. |
The launcher opens Dashboard, Workflow, Timeline, Calendar, MemoList, Kanban, and Secret Manager directly.
Get started
- Install and enable Dashboard Hub. It requires Obsidian 1.10.0 or later.
- Open the rocket launcher in the ribbon, or run Dashboard Hub: Create dashboard from the command palette.
- Choose Add widget, configure it, and drag or resize it into place.
The default Base directory is Dashboards and can be changed in the plugin
settings. New dashboards and supporting files use these locations:
Dashboards/
├── *.dashboard # YAML dashboard definitions
├── Bases/ # Obsidian .base files
├── Kanbans/ # Reusable .kanban definitions
├── Memos/ # Reading memos
└── Timeline/<name>/ # Activity log and attachments, one file per day
Secret Manager uses .encrypted files under Secrets/ by default. Changing the
Base directory does not move existing files.
The interface is available in English, Japanese, Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, and German.
Optional: add AI
AI features are optional. Install one of these compatible plugins from Obsidian's Community plugins: Gemini Helper, Local LLM Hub, or LLM Hub.
Connected plugins provide the models and can answer questions about selected text or reading memos, generate or edit a Base, rewrite Timeline posts, and create, edit, or run Workflows.
Dashboard Hub shares its Base directory and activity Timeline name with the connected plugin. Date-based questions can therefore read the requested day's Markdown file without scanning the full history.
Install from source
npm install
npm run build
Copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into:
<your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/dashboard-hub/
Reload Obsidian and enable Dashboard Hub under Community plugins.
Development
npm test # vitest
npm run build
License
MIT