Obsidian Periodic PARA

• This is a plugin for LifeOS, which assist in practicing the PARA system with periodic notes.
• You can download the LifeOS-example to experience it.

Screenshots

Views

Create Periodic Notes & PARA Notes

See Youtube Demo

It is recommended to work with Templater so that you can use the template variables and functions provided by Templater.

Installation

Dataview is required, please install it first.

Recommended

Periodic PARA is available in the Obsidian community plugin browser!

1. Search for "Periodic PARA" in Obsidian's community plugins browser
2. Enable the plugin in your Obsidian settings (find "Periodic PARA" under "Community plugins").
3. Check the settings. You can customize the directory of periodic notes and PARA notes.

Manual

Go to the releases and download the latest main.js and manifest.json files. Create a folder called periodic-para inside .obsidian/plugins and place both files in it.

Settings

Setting	Description
Periodic Notes Folder	Default is 'PeriodicNotes', Set a folder for periodic notes. The format of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes in the directory must meet the following requirements: YYYY-MM-DD、YYYY-Www、YYYY-MM、YYYY-Qq
Projects Folder	Default is '1. Projects', Set a folder where the PARA project is located, each subdirectory is a project, and each project must have a [XXX.]README.md file as the project index
Areas Folder	Default is '2. Areas', Set a folder where the PARA area is located, each subdirectory is a area, and each area must have a [XXX.]README.md file as the area index
Resources Folder	Default is '3. Resources', Set a folder where the PARA resource is located, each subdirectory is a resource, and each resource must have a [XXX.]README.md file as the resource index
Archives Folder	Default is '4. Archives', Set a folder where the PARA archive is located, each subdirectory is a archive, and each archive must have a [XXX.]README.md file as the archive index
Project List Header	Default is 'Project List', Set the title of the module in which the project snapshots are located in daily notes to collect the projects experienced in the current period in the weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes
Area List Header	Default is 'First Things Dimension', Set the title of the module in which the area snapshots are located in quarterly notes to collect the areas experienced in the current period in the yearly notes
Habit List Header	Default is 'Habit', Set the title of the module in daily notes where the habit is located, and the task query view will ignore tasks under that title

Usage

query code block

Periodic PARA works by writing markdown code block, which query project, area, task list according to the date parsed from current filename, and query task, bullet, project, area, resource, archive list according to the tags parsed from frontmatter.

query by time

Time scope is parsed from current file name, for example:

• 2023-01-01.md // Only 1 January is included
• 2023-W21.md // Every day of week 21
• 2023-06.md // Every day and every week of June
• 2023-Q3.md // Every day, every week, every month of Quarter 3
• 2023.md // Every day, every week, every month, every quarter of 2023

```PeriodicPARA
TaskDoneListByTime
```

```PeriodicPARA
TaskRecordListByTime
```

```PeriodicPARA
ProjectListByTime
```

```PeriodicPARA
AreaListByTime
```

query by tag

Tags is parsed from the frontmatter of current file, for example:

---
tags: 
- x-project
---

The following code block would use x-project as the tag for the query.

```PeriodicPARA
TaskListByTag
```

```PeriodicPARA
BulletListByTag
```

```PeriodicPARA
ProjectListByTag
```

```PeriodicPARA
AreaListByTag
```

```PeriodicPARA
ResourceListByTag
```

```PeriodicPARA
ArchiveListByTag
```

query para by folder

```PeriodicPARA
ProjectListByFolder
```

```PeriodicPARA
AreaListByFolder
```

```PeriodicPARA
ResourceListByFolder
```

```PeriodicPARA
ArchiveListByFolder
```

templater helpers

Generate list

Generate a list of README.md snapshots in the specified directory.

<% PeriodicPARA.Project.snapshot() %>
<% PeriodicPARA.Area.snapshot() %>
<% PeriodicPARA.Resource.snapshot() %>
<% PeriodicPARA.Archive.snapshot() %>

For example:

<% PeriodicPARA.Project.snapshot() %>

to

1. [[1. Projects/x-project/README|x-project]]
2. [[1. Projects/y-project/README|y-project]]

Support

• Twitter
• Discord

Acknowledgements

Also, I relied on the code from these excellent plugins:

• PARA. Thanks to Tiago Forte for inventing such a great organizational method.
• obsidian-periodic-notes. Gave me the inspiration to develop this plugin.
• obsidian-dataview. The underlying plugin uses dataview's query interface.
• Templater. Provides decoupled template creation, allowing a very large number of plugins to create files with the help of it.

Donations

If this plugin do help you, please buy me a cup of coffee on buymeacoffee.