Obsidian Starter Kit v5.0.0 is here 🎉

Hey everyone 👋


v5 is live! It’s the release I’ve been working on all summer: the kit now matches my own vault, the one I run my business from.


What changes for you:


  • ⚙️ Finished work files itself: statuses stamp their dates, and done actions move to the archive seven days later

  • ⚡ One click for your daily routines: buttons and captures on the daily note, previous/next and a capture button on the weekly and higher notes

  • 🎯 Every commitment gets a home: Activities and Ideas join goals, plans, projects and tasks, all linked (dependencies included), all on Kanban boards

  • 🗓️ Plan the week you want: the Activities board opens on an ideal week where every activity gets its recurring time blocks, next to its weekly target

  • 🤖 A lighter AI assistant: new AI skills, agents that remember what they learn, and Claude Code finds skills on demand, so sessions start much lighter (and there’s a new guide if you’d rather use OSK without AI)

  • 🛠️ A much more capable OSK plugin, plus nine new plugins, including K-Plex and the Knowii Community plugin, so you can read and post here without leaving Obsidian


Before you upgrade:


  1. Back up or commit your vault. On its first launch, v5 archives your old finished actions (the migration guide shows how to hold that off).

  2. Update Obsidian to 1.13.7 or newer.

  3. Download v5 from the Obsidian Starter Kit space here, or from your Gumroad library if you bought it there. https://learn.knowii.net explains both.

  4. Follow the migration guide in order: https://notes.dsebastien.net/30+Areas/33+Permanent+notes/33.04+Creations/Products/Obsidian+Starter+Kit/Migration+Guides/Obsidian+Starter+Kit+-+Migration+Guide+-+v4.x+to+v5.0.0


Everything that changed is in the release notes: https://notes.dsebastien.net/30+Areas/33+Permanent+notes/33.04+Creations/Products/Obsidian+Starter+Kit/Release+Notes/Obsidian+Starter+Kit+-+Release+Notes+-+v5.0.0


And what’s next? Updates keep coming, and everyone who bought the kit keeps getting them at no extra cost. Some parts, like pieces of the AI layer, might move here to Knowii in the future; whatever stays in the kit keeps shipping to you.


If a step of the guide doesn’t match what you see, post it in the comments and I’ll fix the guide too. Now go break things and tell me about it 💪