My Obsidian Setup (Part 29) — Home Dashboard Update

Something was missing from my dashboard, and I finally found what it was: a calendar. So, I just did an update to my Home Dashboard and also to my Projects Dashboard.

Here’s what it looks like now:

So I now have the following areas:

Shortcuts

Tasks Info and Shortcuts

Projects Status and Progress

PKM Activity History

Last Files Created or Changed

I’ve already shown how to create these areas here:

Now I’ve added a Tasks Calendar view:

Setup

This calendar view is using Obsidian-Tasks-Calendar. The views available with the Tasks plugin are great, but adding a quick visual of our tasks on a weekly or monthly calendar makes our Dashboard even better.

To use this plugin, download from the plugin's GitHub view.jsand view.css, and copy them to a folder on your vault. Next, add the following to your note:

```dataviewjs
await dv.view("tasksCalendar", {pages: "", view: "month", firstDayOfWeek: 1, options: "style1"})
```

If you copied the files into another folder then the default tasksCalendar, you have to replace:

await dv.view("Resources/tasks-calendar", {pages:...

You can also set a specific location for the tasks:

pages: '"Task Management/Work"'

Or use dv.pages:

pages: "dv.pages().file.tasks.where(t => t.tags.includes('#Pierre'))"
pages: "dv.pages().file.tasks.where(t=>!t.checked && t.header.subpath != 'Log')"

To set the default month or week view (the plugin has a button to switch between week and month):

view: "month"
view: "week"

Set the first day of the week (0=Sunday, 1=Monday):

firstDayOfWeek: 1
firstDayOfWeek: 0

Style Options:

You can select between different style options (style1, style2, …) to change the look of the weekly calendar view.

options: "style1"

These are the main settings. You can check the complete documentation on the GitHub page.

My current Dashboard:

```dataviewjs
await dv.view("05 Resources/00-scripts/tasksCalendar", {pages: "", view: "month", firstDayOfWeek: 1, options: "style3"})
```

And for each project page I have the same setup, but:

{pages: "path-to-the-project-folder"

You can read the previous parts of My Obsidian Setup series here:

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