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A beautiful, panoramic dashboard for Obsidian that gives you a bird's-eye view of your vault's storage composition, file distribution, and health — helping you identify large files and orphan attachments at a glance.
Features
Storage Overview
- Hero KPIs — Total indexed size, file count, and folder count displayed as prominent headline metrics with a category breakdown progress bar.
- Category Breakdown — Files are classified into Markdown, Images, Attachments, and Other, each with size totals and visual proportion bars.
- Disk Estimate (Desktop) — Optional recursive disk scan that includes unindexed files (e.g.,
.obsidian/config) for a true folder-level size estimate.
Space Usage Analysis
- Squarified Treemap — Visualize your vault's storage as a hierarchical treemap where rectangle area represents file/folder size.
- Drill-down Navigation — Click any folder to drill into it; breadcrumbs at the top let you jump back to any ancestor level.
- Smart Aggregation — When a folder has more than 80 children, small items are merged into an "Others (N items)" block to prevent DOM explosion.
- Multiple Chart Modes — Switch between Treemap, Sunburst, Donut, and Bar views.
- Type Filter — Filter by file type (All, Markdown, Images, Attachments, Other) to focus on specific content.
Insight Panels
- Growth Trend — 12-month cumulative size trend of current files with delta metrics.
- Activity Heatmap — Edit frequency over the last 13 weeks, plus today/this-week edit and create counts.
- Recent Activity — Recently modified and created notes at a glance.
- Vault Health — Health summary in the sidebar, including broken-link hints when applicable.
Largest Files
- Ranked list with configurable count (10 / 20 / 50), sort by size or modification time, category filter, and search.
- Inline actions: open in Obsidian, copy vault-relative path, and reveal in system file manager (desktop only).
Orphan Attachment Scanner
- Detects files not referenced by any note using Obsidian's
resolvedLinksmetadata. - Deep Scan (optional) — Also parses each note's metadata links, embeds, and frontmatter links for more accurate detection.
- Body Link Scan (optional) — Regex-based fallback that reads note content to catch inline Markdown links not captured by metadata. High performance cost; enable only when needed.
- Real-time progress indicator with cancel support.
- Each orphan result supports: copy path, reveal in file manager, open in Obsidian.
Identity Badge
- A subtle vault identity card pinned to the bottom of the right sidebar, showing the vault name and optional custom text.
- Dynamically tracks the sidebar width and stays above the status bar.
- Fully customizable: toggle visibility, set custom label, pick accent color, adjust opacity.
- Toggle via command palette: Toggle vault identity badge.
General
- Bilingual UI — Automatically switches between Chinese and English based on Obsidian's language setting (
getLanguage()API, requires Obsidian ≥ 1.8.7). - Session Cache — Scan results are cached in memory during the session. Use the Refresh button to re-scan.
- Dark / Light Theme — All colors use Obsidian CSS variables (
--color-accent,--text-normal, etc.) for seamless theme adaptation. - Mobile Compatible — Works on both desktop and mobile (
isDesktopOnly: false). Desktop-only features (disk estimate, file manager reveal) are gracefully hidden on mobile.
Installation
From Community Plugins (Recommended)
- Open Settings → Community plugins → Browse.
- Search for Vault Dashboard.
- Click Install, then Enable.
Manual Installation
- Download
main.js,manifest.json, andstyles.cssfrom the latest release. - Create a folder:
<your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/vault-dashboard/ - Place all three files into that folder.
- Reload Obsidian, then enable Vault Dashboard in Settings → Community plugins.
Usage
- Click the pie-chart icon in the left ribbon, or run Open info panel from the command palette.
- A new tab opens with the full dashboard view.
- Click Refresh in the header to re-scan your vault.
- Click Scan Orphans in the sidebar to detect unreferenced attachments.
- Click any folder in the space usage chart to drill down; use breadcrumbs to navigate back.
- Switch chart modes and type filters in the analysis panel header.
Settings
Dashboard
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Ignore path prefixes | One vault-relative prefix per line to exclude from indexed scans (e.g., large-videos) |
(empty) |
| Show disk folder total (desktop) | Enable recursive disk size estimation | Off |
| Indexed scan yield interval | Yield to the main thread after this many indexed files (0–100; 0 = off) | 25 |
| Orphan scan: deep Markdown metadata pass | Parse metadata links/embeds for more accurate orphan detection | On |
| Orphan scan: deep body text fallback | Regex-based fallback scan of note content for link detection | Off |
Identity Badge
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Show vault identity badge | Toggle the identity badge in the right sidebar | On |
| Custom vault name | Additional label on the badge; empty uses the vault folder name | (empty) |
| Badge theme color | Accent color for the badge border | Theme default |
| Badge opacity | Badge transparency (0.1–1.0) | 0.8 |
Development
npm install
npm run dev # watch mode
npm run build # type check + production build
npm run lint # ESLint
Build output is written to main.js at the project root (not dist/).
Manual Testing
Copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css to:
<vault>/.obsidian/plugins/vault-dashboard/
Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin.
License
This project is licensed under GPL-3.0-only.