# kepano/kepano-obsidian

My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.

Repository: https://github.com/kepano/kepano-obsidian
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kepano-obsidian
Homepage: https://stephango.com/vault
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: markdown, obsidian, obsidian-md, obsidian-vault
Last push: 2026-01-09T00:01:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 61/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 61, release rhythm 51, longevity 77
- inputs: {"age_days": 1086, "days_push": 237, "days_rel": 331, "gap_med": 9, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4433, forks 355 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:49.151591+00:00)

## What it is
A personal Obsidian vault template by Steph Ango (kepano), demonstrating a bottom-up approach to note-taking with minimal folders and consistent conventions. It serves as an example structure users can download and adapt for their own knowledge management.

## Use cases
- set up an obsidian vault with a proven structure
- learn bottom-up note-taking workflows
- organize notes without folders using links and tags
- start a personal knowledge management system
- adopt consistent markdown conventions for notes
- see how the obsidian ceo organizes his notes

## When to choose
- you are new to Obsidian and want a starting vault structure
- you prefer link-based, folder-light note organization
- you want plain standard Markdown files you fully control

## When to avoid
- you need hierarchical folder-based organization
- you want a ready-made plugin-heavy productivity system
- you use a different note-taking app than Obsidian

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: markdown, documentation, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, text-editors, tutorials
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: obsidian, vault-template, note-taking, personal-knowledge-management, pkm

## Member repositories
- kepano/kepano-obsidian (main) score 61

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:49.151591+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:22:06.781551+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kepano/kepano-obsidian (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:49.151591+00:00, sha f37bd24b7f0e)
  - homepage: https://stephango.com/vault (fetched 2026-08-29T09:08:39.117791+00:00, sha 2e0f5afdf48b)
  - site_page: https://stephango.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:08:39.127178+00:00, sha c92b85c2528c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.