PLATINUM

PLATINUM is a comprehensive Obsidian vault template designed for productivity, knowledge management, and personal organization. It provides a pre-configured workspace with carefully selected plugins, structured folder hierarchies, and AI-powered workflows to help you build and maintain your second brain.

What is PLATINUM?

PLATINUM is an opinionated Obsidian vault structure that combines best practices from personal knowledge management (PKM) methodologies with powerful automation tools. It's designed to minimize setup time and maximize productivity from day one.

What Does It Offer?

Organized Structure

• Area: Core life management (Home, Meetings, Notes, People, Projects, Resources, Spaces, Tasks)
• Journal: Daily journaling and time-based entries
• Projects: Project-specific workspaces
• Spaces: Contextual work environments with dedicated notes, people, topics, and references
• System: Vault configuration, AI prompts, templates, and automation scripts
• Uploads: Centralized media and attachment storage

Pre-configured Plugins

• Templater: Dynamic template system with custom scripts
• QuickAdd: Rapid note creation with customizable macros
• Dataview: Powerful query language for dynamic data views
• Copilot: AI assistant for enhanced note-taking and content generation
• Style Settings: Visual customization without CSS editing

AI Integration

• Custom AI prompts for development, note processing, and text manipulation
• GitHub Copilot integration for intelligent assistance
• Pre-built prompt library for common workflows

Template System

• Ready-to-use templates for journals, meetings, notes, projects, tasks, and more
• JavaScript automation scripts for dynamic path generation
• Standardized frontmatter for consistent metadata

What Does It Do?

PLATINUM transforms Obsidian into a complete productivity system that:

Organizes Information: Structured folders and templates keep your knowledge organized and accessible
Automates Workflows: Quick capture, template insertion, and AI assistance reduce manual work
Connects Ideas: Dataview queries and bidirectional links reveal relationships in your knowledge
Enhances Thinking: AI-powered refinement and summarization improve note quality
Scales Effortlessly: Designed to grow with your needs without becoming unwieldy

Getting Started

Prerequisites:

• Obsidian installed
• Roboto Condensed font (recommended)
• Obsidian Copilot API key (for AI features)

Quick Setup:

1. Clone this repository
2. Open the folder in Obsidian
3. Configure your Copilot API key in plugin settings
4. Review and customize the pre-installed plugins
5. Start creating!

For detailed plugin documentation, see Spaces/Default/Notes/PLATINUM.md

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Repository Setup

After Cloning the Repository, follow these steps to detach the original remote and link the upstream repository.

1. Remove the original origin remote

git remote rm origin

2. Add the upstream repository

git remote add upstream https://github.com/vulovix/platinum.git

3. Fetch the upstream branches

git fetch upstream

4. Pull the latest changes from the upstream main branch

git pull upstream main

Your local repository is now connected to the upstream source and up to date.

5. To resolve the conflict, follow these steps.

git stash push -- .obsidian/workspace.json
git stash push -- .obsidian/workspace-mobile.json
# stashes your local workspace files so the index becomes clean

git pull upstream main
# pulls and merges upstream changes

git stash pop
# restores your local workspace.json (Git will now ignore it)

Gitignore (Recommended)

Add these rules to .gitignore to avoid committing machine-local Obsidian and Copilot state:

# macOS
.DS_Store
**/.DS_Store

# Obsidian user-local UI state
.obsidian/workspace.json
.obsidian/workspace-mobile.json

# Obsidian transient/local data
.obsidian/cache/
.obsidian/.trash/

# Copilot local index + machine/user specific plugin data
.obsidian/copilot-index-*.json
.obsidian/plugins/copilot/data.json

If these files were tracked before, untrack them once:

git rm --cached .obsidian/workspace.json .obsidian/workspace-mobile.json .obsidian/plugins/copilot/data.json
git rm --cached .obsidian/copilot-index-*.json
git commit -m "chore: ignore local obsidian and copilot state"