Working Notes: 9 Obsidian Templates for Meetings, Projects and Reviews

You write the same meeting note from scratch every week, and the action items still leak.

Nine markdown templates for the notes a working person re-types, plus a start-here note that explains them. Made for Obsidian, and it needs no community plugin: the plugin config file in the pack is literally an empty array.

• Meeting notes — agenda written beforehand, decisions, your action items, their action items with a chase date, and a parking lot for what nobody owned.
• Project note — carries a decision log table: date, what you chose, the option you rejected, the one-line why, and when to revisit.
• Weekly review — a template you insert into a fresh note each week, so your reviews stack up instead of overwriting each other.
• Source note — the claim in one sentence, how they know it, limits, quotes with locations, your verdict, where you cited it.
• 1:1 note — two agendas, actions both ways, and a career-thread table you never clear.
• Book note, daily journal with a five-prompt set, area dashboard, reference note — the other four shapes, each with the section that makes you finish the thought.

Plain markdown throughout. Every template is a UTF-8 text file you can open in any editor or copy into a vault you already use. No build step, no database to migrate, no plugin to install. The nine templates hold ten wiki-links between them and every one points at a file that ships inside this folder, so nothing links to a note you have to write first.

What ships for Obsidian: a settings folder that points the built-in Templates plugin at the template folder, seeds the daily note from the journal template, and leaves sync and publish switched off. It also ships the honest version of the instructions: Obsidian was not installed on the machine that prepared this pack, so README.md lists every behaviour claim as expected-but-unverified rather than promising you what the app will do. The settings folder is optional — no note in the pack needs it to be readable, and the ten markdown files sit there whether it exists or not.

Deliberately absent: no YAML front matter, no Dataview, no Templater, no auto-rolling dashboards. Anything that only works with a community plugin was left out on purpose, because a pack that depends on a plugin breaks when the plugin updates.

$6, one-time. Instant download, unlimited personal devices and vaults, free updates, 30-day money-back guarantee. Obsidian itself is free to use, including at work — the commercial licence requirement was dropped in February 2025 — and the only things you pay for there are the optional Sync and Publish services, neither of which this pack needs.

Not who this is for: if you want a filing system that decides where notes go, that is the shop's Second Brain PARA product, not this one. If you want plugin-powered queries, scheduled daily notes or dashboards that compute themselves, this pack will disappoint you. And if you have never opened Obsidian, the free guide on the way this author takes notes is the earlier purchase — this is the set of shapes you write afterwards.