PARA Workflower

PARA Workflower is an Obsidian plugin to make managing your Vault using the PARA Method, by Tiago Forte, a lot easier.
This plugin offers you a handful of very useful commands to

Initialize your Vault and prepare it to use PARA method with this plugin
Create a new Project, Area or Resource
Easily archive your PARA items (Project, Area, Resource) using the plugin commands
Restore projects, areas and resources directly or via the plugin's handy fuzzy search function

Changelog v0.1.5

[!warning] THIS VERSION MAY CONTAINS BREAKING CHANGES

added input validation in modal when creating a project, area or resource
added command Move to archive
This command will move the currently open project / area / resource to the archive.
If the file is an area, the companion folder (if exists) is also moved. The area note and companion folder are then placed within a subfolder named after the area in your archive folder.
If the file is a project and within a project folder the whole project folder will be moved to the archive
added command Restore from archive
Restores the currently open PARA item or opens a modal in which you can search for an archived project, area or resource that you want to restore.
This change is for a more convenient use of the plugin and is now the only command for restoring archived elements.
If you call the command without a file being open or not archived, the search modal is opened.
If you call the command with a currently open and archived PARA item, this will be restored immediately.
command Create new project now checks whether a project with the same name (case insensitive) already exists in the projects or archive folder
removed command Archive current project
removed command Restore open project from archive
removed command Restore project from archive
add support for project folder structure
You can enable folder structure for projects under the plugin settings Use folder structure for projects.
All corresponding commands can now handle both flat and folder structures for projects.

All projects created w/o a project folder (flat) will still be handled as flat projects (single file). This might be changed in the future.

To see all changes to the plugin, go to https://github.com/trucke/para-workflower/releases.

What is the PARA Method?

A full article on the PARA method and its benefits can be found on this blog post by Tiago Forte.

Installation

Dataview is required, please install it first.

Enable core plugin Templates and configure the templates folder to Templates

Manual

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

Commands

Open command palette (default): CTRL+p or CMD+p

Command	Description
`Initialize vault`	Initialize your vault by creating PARA folder structure and generate Templates for project, area, resource
`Create new project`	Opens a modal to speed up creating a new Project, puts the new project under your Projects folder and sets the status of the project to `draft`
`Create new area`	Opens a modal to speed up creating a new Area, puts the new area under your Areas folder and also creates an companion folder for the new area
`Create new resource`	Opens a modal to speed up creating a new Resource, puts the new resource under your Resources folder
`Move to archive`	Moves the current PARA item (Project, Area, Resource) to your archive. If current item is a project the status will be changed to `aborted`
`Restore from archive`	Restores the currently opened and archived PARA item or opens a search modal
`Complete project`	Set current open and active project as completed, set `completed` to `true`, set status to `done` and move to archive

Tips

For a better UX consider to configure the following settings:

Editor -> 'Default view for new tabs' --> Reading view
Editor -> 'Default editing mode' --> Source mode
Editor -> 'Properties in document' --> Source

Tags i use for project status

Status	Description
`draft`	Project created or initialized; has to be defined or needs some more specification
`pending`	Project is specified and ready to go
`in_process`	Project is currently under development
`postprocessing`	Project is mostly done but needs some additional documentation or other post processing (this step is optional)
`done`	Project is done and documented

Acknowledgements

Big shout out, to the following amazing projects i relied on:

Further Improvements & Support

Feel free to contribute.

Contributors are very welcome and I appreciate every input.

You can create an issue to report a bug, suggest an improvement for this plugin, ask a question, etc.

You can make a pull request to contribute to this plugin development.

trucke / para-workflower

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