A dark red-on-black terminal-style dashboard showing RECENT, PINNED and TASKS panels over a set of markdown notes

A Read-Only Dashboard for My Obsidian Vault

My Obsidian vault has 61 notes in it — study notes, homelab runbooks, session logs — and it syncs between this box and my laptop. The only way to see what I’d touched recently was to open Obsidian and read Home.md, a hand-maintained index that goes stale the moment I forget to update it. So I wanted a small dashboard: recent notes, pinned notes, what’s still unticked. Local only. I didn’t write this code. I gave Claude Code the prompt and reviewed, tested and corrected what came back. That’s how most things on this blog get built now, and it seems worth being plain about. The prompt was: ...

3 August 2026 · 6 min