AgriciDaniel/compass

Compass: run your whole life out of Obsidian. Daily questions, quarterly retreats, planning, habits, tasks, writing, and an AI assistant in the vault.

What it solves

Compass is a comprehensive "Life OS" template for Obsidian, designed to help users organize their entire life—from daily journaling and habit tracking to long-term planning and project management—within a single, structured vault. It eliminates the need to build a complex personal knowledge management system from scratch by providing a pre-configured environment with integrated workflows and AI assistance.

How it works

The system is built as an Obsidian vault template that uses plain Markdown and properties. It integrates ten community plugins (such as Dataview, Templater, and Kanban) and a first-party "Life OS" application for navigation and dashboards.

Key components include:

  • Structured Workflows: Pre-defined paths for journaling, quarterly retreats, multi-scale planning, habit tracking, and task management.
  • AI Integration: An AI assistant that follows rules in AGENTS.md and utilizes a library of 16 specific prompts for recurring jobs (e.g., weekly reviews, task triage).
  • Connectivity: An Obsidian MCP bridge via the Local REST API, allowing external AI agents (like Claude Code) to interact with the vault using a set of tools to read, search, and patch notes.
  • Centralized Configuration: A single config file (Meta/Compass Config.md) that controls habits, questions, and folder structures across the entire vault.

Who it’s for

It is for Obsidian users who want a professional, highly structured system for personal productivity and life management, particularly those who follow the productivity philosophies of Mike Schmitz, Cal Newport, and Marshall Goldsmith.

Highlights

  • AI-Powered Coaching: Includes a prompt library for specific life-management tasks and an agent client for approved AI edits.
  • MCP Support: Enables external AI agents to operate on the vault as a tool-using system.
  • Integrated Dashboards: Uses DataviewJS to create live views of habits, tasks, and projects.
  • Turnkey Setup: Bundles all necessary plugins and provides a guided onboarding process to ensure workflows are adopted incrementally.

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