Vault Plus

A single sidebar dashboard that finds the messy parts of your vault and lets you fix them in one click. No setup, no learning curve — install it, open the dashboard, clean your vault.

What it finds

• Orphan notes — notes no other note links to (strict mode also requires zero outgoing links)
• Broken links — wikilinks and markdown links pointing at missing notes or attachments
• Empty notes — notes with no real content, only frontmatter, or near-zero bytes
• Oversized notes — notes over a configurable word threshold (default 3000) that are good candidates for splitting
• Fuzzy duplicates — notes with nearly identical titles (case-insensitive, edit-distance based)
• Unused tags — tags that only appear in a single note
• Unreferenced attachments — images and other files in your vault that no note links to

Every check can be toggled individually in the plugin settings.

Why

Vault rot is universal once you pass ~200 notes. There's a scattered ecosystem of single-purpose plugins for orphans, broken links, and duplicate-finding — Vault Plus unifies them into one dashboard with one-click fixes, zero configuration, and 100% offline operation.

Installation

From the Obsidian community plugins directory (once approved)

1. Open Obsidian → Settings → Community plugins
2. Search for Vault Plus
3. Click Install, then Enable

Manual install

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Copy them into your vault at .obsidian/plugins/vault-plus/
3. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin under Settings → Community plugins

Usage

• Ribbon icon (broom) → opens the Vault Plus dashboard in the right sidebar
• Command palette → "Vault Plus: Open Vault Plus dashboard" or "Vault Plus: Run full vault scan now"
• Categories are collapsible — click any category header to expand or collapse
• Each row has quick actions:
  • Open — opens the note in a new tab (for broken links, jumps to the link)
  • Open both — opens a duplicate pair side-by-side in split panes
  • Delete — moves a file to the system trash (with confirmation by default)

The dashboard auto-refreshes a couple of seconds after you edit a note so counts stay current while you clean up.

Settings

Open Settings → Community plugins → Vault Plus. You can:

• Toggle each of the seven checks independently
• Choose orphan strictness (strict: no links either way · relaxed: no backlinks)
• Adjust the empty-note byte threshold, oversized-note word threshold, and fuzzy duplicate edit distance
• Disable auto-rescan on vault changes
• Disable delete confirmations
• Open the dashboard automatically on startup

How it works

Vault Plus reads Obsidian's metadata cache — it never re-parses your notes. All work is local and offline, no network calls, no cloud services, no telemetry. Scans are debounced so editing doesn't thrash the dashboard, and re-scans only run while the dashboard is open.

Performance notes

The fuzzy-duplicate check scales roughly with the square of your note count. It's fast enough up to about 5,000 notes; if your vault is larger than that and you notice a delay, disable Find fuzzy duplicates in settings.

Plus Plugin Family

Vault Plus is part of the Plus Plugin Family for Obsidian:

• Paste Plus — Smart paste: URLs become titled links, images get clean filenames, HTML converts to markdown, YouTube and Twitter links resolve to titles.
• Vault Plus — Vault health dashboard: find and fix orphans, broken links, empty notes, duplicates, and more.
• Link Plus — Unlinked mention scanner: find and convert unlinked mentions vault-wide with one-click or batch operations.

Support

If Vault Plus saves you time, you can support development here:

License

0BSD — copy, paste, ship. The license matches the plugin.