Hey r/ObsidianMD. I've been using Obsidian for about a year and a half now for a project, but got completely sidetracked by the versatility of Obsidian itself. I've always been an avid journaler, but over the years I've strayed away from pen and paper journaling to online journaling, mainly because I can type faster than I can write. I'd like to share my homepage and general layout of my Journal vault.

I designed this particular journal as a way for me to look inward and work through things, as well as talk about my day-to-day life. The morbid idea is that someone will read it if something happens to me.

I want to preface this by saying a lot of it is spaghetti code used with dataviewjs. I relied heavily on Googling and using ChatGPT to help me write the code for all of this. That said, if anyone is interested in some elements, I'll be happy to share. Some elements, such as the clock and games library, were inspired by or pulled from other vaults displayed on here.

Theme: Typewriter
Plugins: Dataview, Homepage, Image Toolkit, Journals, Meta Bind, Pixel Banner, Style Settings, Templater

Homepage

Top of my Homepage

Bottom of my Homepage

This is the Homepage in general. It's designed to have a lot of information you can read at a glance. Everything is designed to have a popup if you hover over it, which I'll show later.

The top buttons are designed to create templates, which is still a WIP. I have a few more to add. The "How Does This Work?" button takes the reader to a page that explains my reason for making this vault and some basic instructions for navigating it.

Mood Calendar

Overview of the Mood Calendar

Popup that displays on hover

I wasn't happy with the mood tracker/heatmap plugins that were available, so I designed my own. It's meant to track the moods from the mood frontmatter, using a value of 1-5. Depending on the value, it will color and label that day's box accordingly. On hover, it will list the date of the entry, the title of the entry, the mood of that day, and whatever I was listening to when I wrote the entry. Again, this is all pulled from frontmatter.

Content Consumption and Libraries

The \"Now Playing\" section with popup

Full library of games played

If you click on the "Full Library" link in the homepage, it will navigate to the corresponding table for books/shows and movies/video games. I've always been a backlogger. I have an account on Infinite Backlog that I contribute to regularly, but this is a good way for me to localize that information. This information is generally the same for shows/movies/books, but the images are video games. The only difference is some of the frontmatter.

Vault Stats

Vault stats on hover

Lastly is my general vault stats section. I don't know why, but seeing my vault age and grow makes it feel like something living to me. The Top Tags sections pulls from the frontmatter of my journal entries. I list whatever the subject(s) I'm talking about in that particular entry, and it lists the top 5 used in this popup.

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Thanks for taking the time to check out my vault! It's always a WIP, so I'm open to suggestions on how to better streamline the information.