Second Brain — Obsidian PARA Template

A production-ready Obsidian vault template using the PARA method (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive) with daily notes, three community plugins, and a custom HTML dashboard.

What's included

Path	Purpose
Templates/Daily.md	Daily note — auto-renames to YYYY-MM-DD, Focus / Log / Tomorrow
Templates/Meeting.md	Meeting note — auto-dates, Attendees / Agenda / Notes / Actions
Templates/Project.md	Project index — Goals / Code Location / Key Decisions
Templates/Resource.md	Reference note — Summary / Source / Key Points
Templates/Home.md	Landing page with live Dataview queries for projects, inbox, meetings
Templates/Weekly Review.md	Weekly review — auto-renames to YYYY-WWW, inbox + project sweep
dashboard.html	HTML dashboard — open in browser or via Obsidian
.obsidian/	Vault config: core plugins, community plugins, daily notes

Folder structure

Second Brain/
├── Projects/     # One subfolder per active project
├── Areas/        # Ongoing responsibilities (no deadline)
├── Resources/    # Reference material, links, attachments
├── Archive/      # Completed or paused work
├── Inbox/        # Quick capture — process weekly
├── Daily/        # Daily notes (YYYY-MM-DD.md)
└── Templates/    # Reusable templates (this folder is tracked)

Plugins

Three community plugins are configured (install via Obsidian → Settings → Community Plugins):

• Dataview (0.5.68) — query notes like a database
• Templater (2.19.1) — template variables like {{date}} and {{title}}
• Calendar (1.5.10) — sidebar calendar linked to Daily notes

Setup

1. Clone this repo into a folder on your machine
2. Open Obsidian → Open folder as vault → select the cloned folder
3. Install the three community plugins listed above
4. Drop new ideas into Inbox/, create structured notes with Templates/

Conventions

• Frontmatter: tags, status (active/paused/done), started date
• Internal links: [[wikilinks]]
• Tags: project, area, resource, meeting, daily
• New files default to Inbox/ (configured in .obsidian/app.json)

License

MIT — see LICENSE