One vault, many small tools

I keep everything in one Obsidian vault, encrypted at rest with Cryptomator. Instead of chasing the perfect all-in-one app, I write small plugins that each do one job well — a daily journal, a dashboard, a lab inventory, a mail importer — and let the vault tie them together.

The upside of building your own: when a workflow changes, the tool changes the same afternoon. The full list is on the Obsidian Toolkit page.