01 · Templates
Voice memo + daily note
A Voice Memo template with frontmatter for date, topic, source app, and auto-linked backlinks. A Daily Note that gives spoken captures a home instead of a graveyard.
Free · Obsidian · works with Logseq & any .md folder
The voice-first Obsidian vault.
Most starter vaults assume you type. This one assumes you talk. Voice-memo template, daily-note scaffolding, a tag taxonomy that survives the messy way you actually think out loud, and the folder structure we wish someone had handed us two years ago. Drop it in and go.
One email with the download link. No newsletter. Unsubscribe any time.
What's in the vault.
Five things, no filler. Designed so you can start using it in under 60 seconds without reading a manual.
02 · Folder structure
Four folders, not forty
Inbox, Notes, Daily, Archive. No PARA, no Zettelkasten purity tests. Voice notes land in Inbox; you promote the ones that earn it. Everything else stays out of your way.
03 · Tag taxonomy
Tags that survive dictation
A flat taxonomy that doesn't collapse the moment you capture a messy thought at 11pm. Includes the tags we actually use — and the ones we deleted so you don't have to learn the hard way.
04 · Processing rituals
The 7-minute Friday review
A template and a queries.md file that turn the week's voice captures into reviewed, tagged, linked notes. Short enough that you'll actually do it.
05 · Dataview queries
Views that earn their keep
Three Dataview queries we rely on daily — voice captures this week, unprocessed inbox, and orphaned notes that never got linked. Nothing clever; everything useful.
Who this is for — and who it isn't.
We'd rather you skip the download than fight against a system that's wrong for you.
You'll get value if
- You already use Obsidian, Logseq, or a plain .md folder, and want a cleaner starting point.
- You've tried dictating into your vault and it came out as a wall of unreadable transcript.
- You think best out loud — on walks, in the car, between meetings — and your notes don't reflect that.
- You want structure, but not a system that requires a weekend to learn.
Probably skip if
- You're deep in PARA, Zettelkasten, or a custom system that already works. This won't improve on it.
- You want templates for project management, CRM, or non-note use cases. Wrong tool.
- You dislike plain Markdown. Everything in the vault is human-readable .md files, on purpose.
Grab the vault.
Free forever. No account, no follow-up sequence — one email with the download link, and we'll leave you alone unless you want to hear from us.
Who made this
We're the team behind ThoughtMic, a local voice layer for your Markdown knowledge graph — press ⌥ Space anywhere on your Mac, speak, and your thoughts land in your vault as titled, tagged, linked notes. Your voice and your vault never leave your Mac. The starter vault is free whether or not you ever look at the app.