obsidian-tarot

Simple setup guide and asset files from https://daily-tarot.squarespace.com for adding a random tarot pull to your Obsidian daily note :)

All content except the tarot card descriptions is licensed under the CC0 license as given in the LICENSE file. Tarot card descriptions are used without license from https://daily-tarot.squarespace.com.

Setup

To add this to your Obsidian vault, do the following:

1. Download the files

Go to the GitHub repo, then click the bright green <> Code button, and select Download ZIP in the popup menu.

2. Unzip the files and copy them over

Unzip the downloaded ZIP archive in your ZIP reader of choice, then copy the following files into your Obsidian vault:

1. Copy the Daily Notes/_attachments and Daily Notes/Tarot folders under your own daily notes folder, or a new Daily Notes folder if you haven't already set one up.
2. If you've already set up another daily notes template, copy and paste the contents of Daily Notes/template.md into it. If you don't already have a daily notes template, copy the template.md file into your daily notes folder.
3. Optional: copy .obsidian/snippets/clean-embeds.css file under your .obsidian/snippets folder.
   1. You might need to enable your computer's "view hidden files" setting to see the .obsidian folder in your file browser.
   2. You might need to make your vault's .obsidian/snippets folder if it doesn't already exist.
   3. This step is optional, but it makes the embeds look better.

3. Configure your daily notes plugin

If you already have your daily notes set up with templates and you've already copied the template.md content from this vault to your own template file, you can skip this section.

However, if you haven't already done so, set up your daily notes template now. At the very least, you'll need to set up the template, and it's a good idea to set a folder too (I like to further break my folders down by year and month).

Go into your settings menu, click on the Daily notes tab in the sidebar, then update your date format, new file location, and template file location settings:

It's cut off in the screenshot, but the Date format value I'm using is YYYY/MM - MMMM/YYYY-MMM-DD. This'll organize them into folders by year and month. I don't know if it's intentional to be able to put folder names in here, though, so that functionality might stop working in the future.

4. Install and configure Templater

4.1. Installing Templater

If you haven't already enabled any community plugins, you'll have to do that now. Go into your settings, click on the Community plugins tab in the sidebar, then click the Turn on community plugins button.

Once that's done, or if you've already enabled community plugins in the past, click the Browse button in your Community plugins tab and install Templater.

When Obsidian asks you to enable to the plugin, do so now. If you accidentally cancel out of that screen, you can still do it from the Community plugins tab in the settings window:

4.2. Configuring Templater

In order for Templater to inject the embed in your daily note when you create it, it has to be enabled for triggering on new file creation. Click on the Templater tab in the settings sidebar, then toggle Trigger Templater on new file creation to on.

5. Enable the optional CSS snippet

Open your Obsidian settings from inside the app, click on the Appearance tab in the sidebar, then scroll to the bottom and toggle the clean-embeds CSS snippet on:

This will hide the page name from the embed, making it look a little cleaner.

6. You're done!

Let's make a new daily note to test:

Nice.