Memory Room for Obsidian (beta)

Your vault as a cozy 3D room. Every note becomes an object on one of 11 spots, and you walk the spots in a fixed order, like a memory palace. Built with Three.js; it runs inside Obsidian, beside your normal editor.

Try the live demo in your browser, with a made-up sample vault. Nothing to install, and nothing leaves your browser.

Objective: another way into the same notes

Obsidian shows a vault as a file tree, a list of tabs and a graph. Memory Room is an alternative front end for that same vault: a place you can look at. Projects sit on the desk, reading notes fill the bookshelf, daily notes grow on the plant and old things go in the box at the foot of the bed.

Nothing is copied or converted. The room reads your Markdown files where they are, refreshes when they change, and hands every note back to Obsidian to open, preview and edit. Close the room and your vault is exactly as it was.

Theme: a memory palace you can walk

The idea comes from the method of loci: you remember things better when they have a place, and you visit the places in the same order every time. Memory Room is a small lived-in bedroom-study, seen as a cut-away diorama on a soft gradient backdrop. The light follows your computer's clock, a wall clock and a tear-off calendar keep the date, and a ginger tabby in headphones wanders the floor.

Folders decide where a note goes. The walk order is fixed, so the room always reads the same way:

#	Spot	Default source
1	Wall calendar	reviews/
2	Mirror	identity/USER.md
3	Corkboard	missions/, open-questions.md
4	Box at the foot of the bed	archive/
5	Window	keep/ (things you keep an eye on)
6	Desk	projects/<name>/STATUS.md, one per project
7	Filing cabinet	decisions/
8	Bookshelf	notes/
9	Plant	daily/, logs/
10	Photo table	Meant for your picture folder (people, pets). For now it holds notes with room-spot: photo_table or a person/photo folder rule, shown as blank frames
11	Music player	Songs from your Music folder

These are the default folder rules. Change them in the plugin settings to fit your vault, or give one note a room-spot property to put it on any spot.

Light: the room follows your day

By default the light follows your computer's clock, fading from night to morning, afternoon, sunset and back. You can also hold one light (morning, afternoon, sunset or night, with neon, LED and lamp glow). The choice is remembered.

Morning	Sunset

Features

• Memories from your vault: notes are placed by folder rule, newest first. Anything untouched for 5 days fades, so you can see what needs attention. The room updates live when you create, move or delete notes.
• Open a spot, then a note: click a spot in the room or the top bar. The side panel lists its memories; click one for a rendered preview and Open note.
• Native Obsidian behaviour: Ctrl-click, Ctrl-Alt-click and middle-click open notes like any link. Ctrl-hover shows Obsidian's page preview. Right-click gives the normal file menu.
• Move around: drag to rotate and scroll to zoom. The arrow pad (bottom left) slides, zooms, turns and tilts the view, and its middle button resets; hold a button to keep going. In the room, ← and → walk the spots, Esc resets and / finds.
• Music player: plays mp3, m4a, aac, flac, wav, ogg and opus from your Music folder (or any folder you set) and its sub-folders. Play, pause, skip, seek, volume, mute, filter and Change folder. It keeps playing when you leave the room, with the song in the status bar. Desktop only.
• DJ Whiskers, the pet cat: a rigged ginger tabby in headphones who wanders the open floor, sits, and every few walks goes to her dish by the door to eat. Click her and she turns to face you and waves, with a heart, then carries on where she was going. She can be switched off in settings.
• Calendar and clock: a tear-off page shows today's year, month, day, weekday, day of the year, days left and any holiday, with review notes hanging in a row under it. The wall clock keeps your computer's time, second hand included.
• Review fading memories: a daily tidy. Go through notes past the fade window and Open, Touch (sets last-touched) or Archive each one. Archiving moves it to archive/ and updates links. STATUS files are open-only.
• Small touches: the door swings shut when you click it, and again to open it. The room only draws while it is on screen, so it does not drain a laptop in a background tab.

Screenshots

Desk at night. Older projects in the panel are faded because nobody has touched them for 5 days.	A note preview from the bookshelf, with Open note.
The music player spot: controls, volume, folder and a filterable song list.	Click DJ Whiskers: she turns, waves with a heart, then carries on. (Taken inside Obsidian.)

The tear-off calendar: 299 is the day of the year and 066 the days left. Review notes hang in a row below it.

Room screenshots use a small sample vault and were rendered with the plugin's own room and panel code. The cat and calendar shots were taken inside Obsidian.

Install the beta with BRAT

Memory Room is in beta and not yet in Obsidian's community plugin list. BRAT installs it straight from GitHub and keeps it updated.

This is the beginning of the README. Read the rest at the original. Read the full README ↗