Obsidian Dashboard Gallery: six home dashboards, two files each

Six dashboards, and the whole install is two files

The pitch in the readme is unusually concrete. There are six home dashboards for Obsidian, and copying two files into your vault, a note and a CSS snippet, makes your home note look like the screenshots. There is no build step, and no theme lock-in, which is the phrase that tells you what kind of project this is: not a plugin that reimplements your dashboard, but a set of files you own.

The install section spells out the four steps. You install the Dataview plugin from the community plugins and turn on its JavaScript queries setting. You copy the dashboard note for the dashboard you want into your vault. You copy the matching CSS snippet into the snippets folder of your vault's configuration. And you enable the snippet in the appearance settings, then open the note in reading view.

The last detail is the elegant part. Both files share the same name, so picking a dashboard means taking its pair, and there is no mapping between a note and a stylesheet to get wrong.

The fuller material lives on the project website, which the readme says carries screenshots, video previews and a full breakdown of every dashboard. The repository itself holds the dashboard notes, the stylesheets, the images used by the gallery and a documentation directory with the readme translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese.

The licence is MIT, and the readme states the attitude in five words: use them, change them, ship them.

Atlas and Haven are the calm and the cosy

Two of the six dashboards are the restrained ones, and they are worth describing together because they use the same ideas for different moods.

Atlas is described as calm and theme-aware. Its elements are a greeting, quick capture, tag filtering, an activity heatmap, a calendar and a focus timer. Theme-aware is the interesting word: it means the dashboard follows whatever Obsidian theme you are using rather than imposing its own colours, which is why the readme says there is no theme lock-in.

Haven is the cosy one, a Notion-style home. It has a cover and page icon, callouts, a task database with board, table and calendar views, a gallery of your notes, navigation, a clock and a daily check-in. The Notion comparison is the honest description of the layout, and the task database with three different views is the feature that makes it more than a landing page.

Both are marked as using the Dataview plugin, which is how the live elements work. A greeting that knows the time, a heatmap that counts your activity, a task database that queries your notes: none of that is in the note, it is all in the queries.

So the first question for anyone choosing between these six is not which one looks nicest in a screenshot but whether they want their dashboard to be a query engine or a static arrangement.

Brutalist, Komorebi and Pixel are the loud ones

The other three dashboards take positions, and the readme is honest about what each one is doing.

Brutalist is loud blocks of colour, live weather, a big clock and photo cards for every area of your vault. Live weather means a second dependency, an API key for a weather service, entered from inside the dashboard itself.

Komorebi is terminal ricing with a soft edge, which is a nice phrase for a dashboard that borrows the visual language of a terminal emulator while staying calm. It has collections, a habit grid, weather, a pomodoro timer and music. It is also the one that lists quick capture as an optional extra, which suggests it is the dashboard that reaches furthest outside Obsidian's own data.

Pixel is the one that has moved furthest into current design language. It is described as an agenda in Material 3 Expressive style with dynamic colour, shape morphing and spring motion, and it has tasks that write back to your notes, quick capture, a wavy progress meter and a picture taken from your vault, in light and dark. Tasks that write back is the feature to notice, because it turns the home screen from a read-only view into something you interact with.

All three are marked as using Dataview, and the two with weather also carry the weather service badge. So the dependency map across the gallery is: Dataview everywhere, a weather key for two of them, and an optional capture plugin for a third.

Zen is the minimal one, and the gallery is a menu of moods

Zen is the last of the six, and it is the most restrained of the set. Minimal glass surfaces, habit tracking and a scrolling task pipeline, using the Dataview plugin.

That leaves the gallery as a set of moods rather than a set of features. Calm and theme-aware, cosy and Notion-like, loud and blocky, terminal-flavoured, expressive and modern, minimal and glassy. Each one takes a position about what a vault home screen should feel like, which is a more useful axis of choice than a feature matrix, because the two dashboards you would use every day are the ones whose style you will not tire of.

The visual presentation in the readme is a grid of preview images, with each cell linking to a full-size shot and to the dashboard note in the repository. The cells carry badges for the plugins and keys each dashboard needs, so the dependency information is visible in the gallery itself rather than hidden on a page you have to visit for each item.

One more detail is easy to miss and helpful in practice. A line under the gallery notes that Dataview needs its JavaScript queries option enabled, and that the weather service needs a free API key entered from inside the dashboard. The readme is telling you, in one sentence, the two things that most often make a copy-and-paste dashboard fail.

The repository is templates plus a translation layer

The directory listing is short and explains the shape of the project. There is a dashboards directory holding the notes, an .obsidian directory holding the stylesheets, which is an unusual and slightly surprising thing to find committed to a repository, an images directory for the gallery, and a docs directory holding the translated readmes.

Committing the .obsidian folder is the decision that makes this work as a template repository. The snippets are not distributed through a release or a package manager, they are copied from the repository, so the stylesheets have to live somewhere versioned and browsable, and the vault configuration directory is the only place Obsidian looks for them.

The translations are the other unusual part. The readme itself is published in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese, with the translated versions kept in the documentation directory, and a link to the website alongside them. For a template collection aimed at a large international user base, that is more localisation effort than most repositories of this kind attempt.

The contribution rules are brief and conventional. Ideas, fixes and new dashboards are welcome, the contributing guide should be read before a pull request is opened, and there is a code of conduct alongside it.

The project is MIT licensed, which the readme spells out in the informal way that says what the author means: use them, change them, ship them. The last push was on 2026-10-12, and the repository records no releases, so the dashboards are tracked by commits and the gallery page is the place to see the current set.

Editorial conclusion

Adopt these dashboards if you want a vault home screen today without building one, since each is a finished note and stylesheet pair that you can copy and then edit. Do not adopt them if your vault does not use the Dataview plugin, because the live elements in every dashboard depend on it, and note that the two dashboards with live weather need an OpenWeatherMap key entered from inside the dashboard. Before you copy anything, pick the one whose design matches what you will actually use daily, and check whether the other dependencies in play, such as the optional quick capture plugin, are ones you already have.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources

1. InlitX/Obsidian-Dashboard-Gallery on GitHub
2. Issues
3. License: MIT
4. Project website
5. README