ICOR for Life - Focus

A gravity map with you at the center. Open it and the question "what am I actually working on?" answers itself in one look: everything you touched today orbits close, older work ripples outward ring by ring, and your Key Elements, Projects, Topics, Habits, Goals and Contacts each keep their own color and shape while everything else renders neutral.

Most graph views show you the structure of your vault. ICOR for Life - Focus shows you your attention. Distance here is not decoration: it is computed deterministically from concrete signals (edits, mentions, backlinks, opens), so the same day always draws the same map, and a project drifting toward the outer rings is real information, not layout noise. The canvas only renders what the signals say.

Beta release. This plugin works and is in daily use in a real vault, but you will find rough edges. If something looks off, open an issue on this repo and it gets fixed fast.

Signals

An item's ring is its most recent interaction; its size is a decayed intensity score. Four signals feed both:

• File edits - the file's modification day (covers you and the AI team)
• Daily-note mentions - [[wikilinks]] in daily notes, dated by the note's day (weight 3)
• Backlinks anywhere - a note edited on day X that links to Y counts for Y on day X
• Opens - every note you open is logged locally, on this device only (pruned after 35 days), and merged with the map's older opens history when the page renders

The page

• FOCUS button under the ICOR for Life banner in the file tree, or the command ICOR for Life - Focus: Open the Focus map
• Ring widths are dynamic: busy days wide, empty days thin
• ALL | ENTITIES toggle on the page; range selector 7 / 14 / 30 days
• Drag nodes, pan the canvas, mousewheel zoom; click a node to open the note
• Faint lines connect items that link to each other (can be turned off)

Privacy: no network use at all

ICOR for Life - Focus makes no network requests, and there is no telemetry. Every signal it uses is computed from your own vault. The log of which notes you opened stays in this device's own local storage (never Obsidian Sync), pruned after 35 days; on a vault with more than one device, each device keeps its own opens log rather than fighting another device over one shared copy in data.json. Nothing leaves your machine.

Install

Requires Obsidian 1.8.7 or newer (the per-device local storage the opens log now lives in).

• From Obsidian: Settings, Community plugins, Browse, search "ICOR Focus", install, enable.
• Manually: copy main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release into .obsidian/plugins/icor-for-life-focus/ and enable the plugin.

No build step: main.js is hand-written CommonJS. Works on desktop and mobile: on a touch screen, drag with one finger, pinch with two to zoom, tap a node to open the note.

ICOR for Life Obsidian Edition

ICOR for Life - Focus is the review surface of the ICOR for Life Obsidian Edition: ICOR (Input, Control, Output, Refine), the productivity methodology by Paperless Movement / myICOR, implemented as a ready-to-use Obsidian vault. Best to be used in combination with:

• ICOR for Life - Planner, the weekly planning board: Todoist, ClickUp, starred email and Google Calendar synced into the vault, planned by drag and drop. Focus shows you what is drifting to the outer rings; the Planner is where you drag it back into the week.
• ICOR for Life - INKLINE theme, the hand-drawn ICOR look every surface of the Edition is designed against. The Focus canvas rides the same token grammar, so the map matches your vault in ink and paper mode alike.
• ICOR for Life - Connect, your app.myicor.com account inside the vault. The reviewing habit this map is built for is taught in the ICOR Journey on myicor.com; Connect brings those courses next to your notes.
• ICOR for Life - Diagrams, a fullscreen viewer with zoom and pan for the mermaid diagrams in your notes. Same instinct as this map: see the shape of a thing instead of scrolling through it.
• ICOR for Life - Chat, your AI team in a tab beside your notes, working from your vault's own instructions. When the map shows something drifting to the outer rings, the team is one tab away to work out why.

The complete, preconfigured experience (theme, all plugins, the seven-room vault structure and the AI team) ships free as the ICOR for Life vault: https://myicor.com

License

Please note that while the source can be read and modified for your personal use, this plugin is not open source. It is licensed under the ICOR for Life Source-Available License (Code) - see the LICENSE file for the full terms. Third-party notices live in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.