This is the dashboard layer — the part you actually look at every day.
WHAT BOB WORKSPACE IS
BOB Workspace is an Obsidian plugin. It turns a wall of notes into a workspace: dashboards, navigation, task boards, and live views of your data, all on one screen.
The plugin is free and public on GitHub. You can install it into any Obsidian vault, today, without buying anything from us.
USING THE PLUGIN ON ITS OWN (no BOB vault)
Grabbed just the plugin? Great — you're in the right place.
On its own, BOB Workspace is a flexible shell you point at your own notes:
• Build dashboards and navigation for whatever you already track
• Add lists, boards, charts, and embedded table views
• Shape it with one config file (workspace.json)
It's a generic, tweakable UI over plain markdown. Bring your own structure and it'll display it.
USING IT WITH THE FULL BOB VAULT
Inside the Starter Vault, the plugin arrives pre-wired:
✅ Dashboards already mapped to the data model — clients, deals, content, finance, tasks
✅ Workspace layout tuned so you SEE your business the moment you open it
✅ Updates itself as your skills drop new files into the right folders
Same plugin. The difference is everything it's plugged into.
THE HONEST PART
The plugin isn't the magic — it's the window. The real value is the structure, the data model, and the skills underneath it. That's exactly why we give the plugin away: it costs you nothing and it's a fair preview of how the whole thing feels.
POST HERE WHEN YOU WANT TO:
• Ask about installing the plugin (BRAT) or getting it running
• Customize your workspace.json — widgets, dashboards, layout
• Share a workspace layout you built
• Report something that looks off in the UI
New here? "What Is BOB? The Complete Picture" in the Classroom shows how the plugin fits with the skills and the vault.
— Carine