Starter Vault
Set up PARA folders, a Home note, a daily note and project notes in the vault you already have — in English, Deutsch, Español, Português or 日本語. Nothing is overwritten: setup lists every folder and note first and skips what already exists.
Recorded by this repo's end-to-end test in the real Obsidian 1.14.5 app, on a vault that already had notes.
What it does (free)
| Command | What happens |
|---|
| Set up my vault | Shows the list first — 0 Inbox · 1 Projects · 2 Areas · 3 Resources · 4 Archive · 5 Journal/Daily · 5 Journal/Reviews · 6 Templates, a Home note, a "Start here" project, the daily-note and project templates — and marks what is already there as skipped. One click creates the rest. |
| Open today's daily note | 5 Journal/Daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md with Top 3 today · Tasks · Notes · End of day (calendar icon in the ribbon). |
| New project | A project note with Outcome · Next actions · Notes · Log. |
| Preview this week | This week's numbers from your notes: tasks done, notes created and changed, open tasks in projects, projects with no next action, stalled projects (14+ days untouched), overdue tasks, notes in the inbox, daily notes written. |
Folder names, headings, prompts and dates are in your language; pick it in setup or in the settings.
Pro and Packs club (paid)
Payment is required for full access to the features in this section. Pro is a one-time purchase; the Packs club is a monthly or yearly subscription. Both are sold at https://getreadystack.com/apps/obsidian-starter-vault-plugin/ and unlock with a licence key (Settings → Starter Vault → Enter licence key).
- Write this week's / month's / quarter's review — a note in
5 Journal/Reviews/ with the numbers above, what you finished, open tasks per project, projects that need a next action, stalled and overdue items, then your reflection prompts. Run it again and the part you wrote below "Your review" is kept.
- Roll-over — when today's daily note is created, yesterday's open tasks move to Tasks; the old lines become
- [>].
- Move finished projects to the archive — projects with
status: done (or erledigt, terminado, concluído, 完了 …) move to 4 Archive/<year>/; Obsidian updates the links.
- 10 more templates in 5 languages: weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly review, meeting, person, book, area, decision, goal.
- Packs club: a new template pack every month in 5 languages, installed from Template packs (the 2026-11 pack: year in review 2026, plan 2027, December close-out). Files you installed stay in your vault if you stop.
Network use
The plugin works offline. It connects to getreadystack.com only for:
- Licence check — when you enter a key, and again at most once every 7 days:
GET https://getreadystack.com/api/lic?key=<your key>&slug=<product>. Only the key is sent.
- Template packs — when you open Template packs: the public list
https://getreadystack.com/apps/obsidian-starter-vault-plugin/packs-index.json, and, when you install a pack, https://getreadystack.com/api/dl/<product>?key=<your key>.
No note content, file names or usage data leave your vault. No telemetry, no ads. The plugin never installs or updates code; packs are Markdown templates.
How tasks are counted
A - [x] task is counted as done in a period if it has a ✅ YYYY-MM-DD date in that period (the Tasks plugin format), if it is in a daily note dated in that period, or — for ticks without a date — on the day this plugin first saw it ticked (kept in the plugin's own data file; ticks that existed before you installed it have no day and are not counted).
Install
- Community plugins: search for "Starter Vault" (once listed).
- BRAT: Add beta plugin →
jmshinhwa/readystack-starter-vault.
- Manual: copy
main.js, manifest.json, styles.css from the latest release to <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/starter-vault/ and enable it.
Works on desktop and mobile with Obsidian 1.4.0 or newer; no other plugin needed.
Develop
npm install
npm run build # main.js (+ the same engine for the web page)
npm test # 13 unit tests on a fixture vault with hand-counted numbers
test/ in the product folder also runs an end-to-end test in the real Obsidian app (Xvfb + Playwright over CDP).
License
MIT — © 2026 ReadyStack. Starter Vault is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Obsidian.
