PARA-ZK

PARA-ZK is a native Obsidian plugin for people who keep a private, local “second brain” with PARA, Zettelkasten, and an LLM-maintained wiki layer.

It turns a hand-built PARA + ZK vault into repeatable, plugin-owned workflows. The same workflow logic is exposed through three surfaces: the Obsidian GUI, a native CLI, and a thin MCP server. That means a person, a script, or an LLM can create and maintain the same vault without drifting into different rules.

Why Use It

• Create projects, areas, resources, journal entries, retrospectives, and ZK notes from Obsidian commands or ribbon shortcuts.
• Keep frontmatter, references, tasks, backlinks, citations, and folder-style notes coherent without hand-editing YAML.
• Maintain LLM-Wiki/ as a derived synthesis layer that cites canonical PARA/ZK/resource notes without making those notes depend on the wiki.
• Let automation and LLM clients discover the live vault surface through para-zk:describe instead of guessing file shapes.

Quick Install

Install PARA-ZK from Obsidian’s community plugin browser (Settings -> Community plugins -> Browse), then enable it and run setup:

optsidian para-zk:setup deps=required

For manual installs, download manifest.json, main.js, and styles.css from the latest GitHub release. Local development checkouts should build first and install the generated build/ folder.

Note

PARA-ZK is designed for one user’s local Obsidian vault. It is not a publishing system or a collaborative workspace.

Start Here

• Install and set up the vault
• Learn the mental model
• Use PARA workflows
• Use Zettelkasten workflows
• Maintain the LLM-Wiki
• Browse a generated LLM-Wiki example
• Capture daily notes and memos
• Drive PARA-ZK from the CLI
• Connect MCP clients