Works with Obsidian

Make your second brain feel like home.

Your Obsidian vault as a pixel room. One glance shows today's goal, your tasks, your calendar and the weather.

Download Casa · freeSee the room ▸

Free plugin for Obsidian desktop · Mac, Windows, Linux
From the maker of YourOS, 5k downloads

On your phone? Email yourself the link and install it on your computer.

Your room · free

This is your room.

Every object shows something from your notes. Tap one to open it. The agenda with your tasks is free; the chair and the backpack come with Focus.

The Casa room at 2 in the afternoon: today's goal, Plan the trip to Kyoto, on a sign under a string of flags, a tear-off calendar with the next event, an arched window with an autumn tree, a round cork board with post-its, a desk with the agenda, a typewriter, headphones on a stand and a small red TV, a chair, a backpack on the floor, a power strip, a penguin buddy on the bookcase and a dog asleep on its rug.

Today's goalThe banner shows the goal you wrote in today's note.

Will it work with my notes?

It reads your vault as it is.

Daily notes, tasks and your calendar, in any language.
Casa writes only when you tick a task or add a note.

See what it reads

Daily notes

Obsidian Daily notes, Periodic Notes, Journals plugin.

No daily notes? Pin any line or any note in one click.

Tasks

Checkboxes in today's note. Tasks plugin items due or scheduled today, anywhere in the vault.

Tick one in Casa and it's ticked in your note.

Calendar

Google, Outlook, iCloud and others: paste your calendar's private address once.

Google: Settings › your calendar › Secret address in iCal format. The link stays in Casa's settings in your vault and is only used to read your events.

People

One note per person, linked from meetings or daily notes.

Orbit builds its map from those links. Needs the Orbit pack.

Not a task person?

Journal, research or a wiki: the room still shows the weather, your calendar, the season, your post-its and the quotes from your quotes note.

Pin any line or any note in one click.

Language

Notes in any language.

Casa reads them as they are.

Not yet

Things, Todoist, Apple Reminders, Sunsama, Kanban boards, Notion, Logseq, Obsidian mobile.

Casa writes only when you do. New and ticked tasks go into today's note. Post-its and quick notes go into a folder you choose. Everything else stays read-only.

Make it yours

Anything you own can move in.

The library you loved on a trip, your desk, a small detail you don't want to forget. Bring them into your room, and each one shows something from your notes.

A real black rural mailbox with a red flag, on a wooden post by a road.
The real thing. Photo: “Mailboxnc.jpg” by SimonMorrison, CC BY 2.5, cropped.
The same mailbox in Casa, drawn in pixels: a letter flies in, the red flag goes up, the label reads Inbox, 3 to sort.
In Casa. It holds your Inbox folder: new notes arrive as letters and the flag goes up.

EXAMPLE · WHAT YOU COULD ASK CLAUDE

my-mailbox.jpgyour photo

Turn this into a Casa object that shows my Inbox folder

✓ Drawn by Casa's pixel engine. It's by the garden gate.

Want a new object?

  1. Take a photo of something you love.
  2. Send it to your own Claude: it describes the object.
  3. Casa's pixel engine draws it in the room's style, on your computer.

Optional, with your own Claude account. Casa itself needs no AI.

Focus · pack

Your day, hour by hour.

The agenda with today's tasks is free, in your room. Focus is for working days: your day hour by hour, a chair that tells you to stand up, and a backpack with every file in your vault.

08:00

  1. Morning. Today's goal on the sign, the first meeting on the calendar.
  2. Late morning. The agenda on the desk counts today's tasks.
  3. Afternoon. What's next is one glance away.
  4. Late afternoon. Done events fade. The next one waits at the top.
  5. Evening. Plans with friends come forward.
  6. Night. The lamp comes on. The notebook closes.
  7. Focus · €8 · coming soon · join the waitlist ›
The desk wall at 8 in the morning: the lamp is on, the clock says eight, the calendar shows the 09:30 stand-up. The desk wall at 11 in daylight: the calendar shows the next event, 16:00 dentist. The desk wall at 2 in the afternoon, in full daylight. The desk wall at 5 in the afternoon: the light fades, no more events today. The desk wall at 6 in the evening: the desk lamp comes on. The desk wall at 9 at night: a dark room and the warm circle of the lamp.

Orbit · personal & professional CRM

Everyone you know, on one map.

Friends, family and clients, straight from your notes: one note per person, linked from your meetings and daily notes. Before you meet someone, Orbit hands you the card.

  • Never miss a promise.Every card shows the next step you promised, with its date. Plan it, put it in your calendar, log the follow-up.
  • See who you haven't talked to in a while.A bar on each card shows how long since they last came up in your notes.
  • Work and personal, apart.One switch: clients and colleagues, or friends and family. Search anyone in a second.

Orbit · €12coming soon · join the waitlist ›

Orbit: the people from your notes in orbit around your home, with a desk and a telescope.

More rooms · packs

Walk around the house.

Living adds the kitchen and the garden. Lighthouse helps on stressful days.

The lighthouse at dusk: its beam sweeps over a calm sea while the buddy sits on the jetty.

The lighthouse

For stressful days. Say what's going on and it shows only what helps now: self-help exercises based on CBT and ACT, a daily journal, a breathing light. Hang the do-not-disturb sign and the room goes quiet. Not therapy.

Coming soon · join the waitlist ›

Private by design

Casa stays home.

Your vault stays yours.

Casa reads it on your computer. Remove Casa and your notes are exactly as they were.

Online only if you want.

Weather (via Open-Meteo), webcam, music and calendar each have a switch. All off: no network request at all.

Read the code.

Every line is public on GitHub, so you or your IT team can check what Casa does.

Pricing

Start free. Add packs later.

Casa

Free

  • The room, with four seasons and a pixel buddy
  • Today's goal and the agenda with your tasks
  • Real weather and your calendar
  • Reads your Obsidian vault
Download Casa

Install it from Obsidian's community plugins. The free room is yours forever: packs only add to it, they never take anything away.

Coming soon · tick the packs you want

One email when your packs are out. Confirm your address from the first email. No spam, unsubscribe in one click. Privacy

The packs aren't on sale yet. When they are: one price, paid once, no subscription. A pack keeps working offline, even if development stops.

Made by one person in Italy.

Questions.

Does it work on Windows and Linux?

Yes, anywhere Obsidian desktop runs.

Obsidian mobile?

Not yet. Casa runs on Obsidian desktop: Mac, Windows and Linux.

What's free and what's paid?

The room is free: today's goal, the agenda with your tasks, the seasons, the buddy, the weather and your calendar. Focus (the chair, the backpack, your day hour by hour), Orbit, Living and Lighthouse are packs, coming soon.

When can I get the packs?

Not yet. Join the waitlist under Pricing: tick the packs you want and you get one email when they're out.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Casa reads your vault on your computer, so the room, your tasks and your notes work without internet. Weather and calendar refresh when you are online.

Will it see my tasks and my calendar?

Tasks: checkboxes in today's note and Tasks plugin items due or scheduled today, anywhere in the vault. Calendar: paste a private calendar link (ICS) from Google, Outlook, iCloud or others.

Does Casa change my notes?

Only when you do something in it: tick a task, add a post-it or a quick note. Nothing else is touched.

Do I need AI?

No. Casa works without AI. If you want a new object, you can ask your own Claude to make one; that needs your own Claude account and is optional.

Can I use it on a work computer?

Casa is listed in Obsidian's community plugins, which Obsidian reviews before listing, and its code is in a public GitHub repository your IT team can read. The licence allows use at work. With the online features off (weather, air quality, webcam, music, calendar), the free room makes no network request.

Is Casa open source?

Not quite: it's source-available, under the PolyForm Noncommercial licence with an added permission for use at work. Every line is on GitHub. You can use Casa for free at home and at work, change it and share it for free, as long as you credit its author. Selling it, or putting it in a paid product, needs a commercial licence: ask the author.

I already have a Dataview homepage. Why Casa?

Casa is something to glance at, not a query to maintain: today's goal, the next meeting and the weather in one picture you keep open next to your notes. If your homepage already gives you that, you may not need Casa.

Several vaults, or a synced vault?

Casa is installed per vault, like every Obsidian plugin, so each vault gets its own room. Its settings live in the vault's .obsidian folder, so they sync if you sync that folder.

Is Lighthouse therapy?

No. It offers self-help exercises based on CBT and ACT, a journal and a breathing light. It doesn't replace a doctor or a therapist.

Will it slow my computer down?

The room pauses when its tab is not in view. Turn animations off and it stays still.

Can it be calm and plain?

Yes. Calm mode in Settings stops every animation, one switch hides the buddy, and you keep only the objects you use. Try the Calm mode button on the room above.

Is Casa made by Obsidian?

No. Casa is an independent plugin, made by one person in Italy. It reads the vault you already keep in Obsidian.

The manifesto

Why Casa exists.

We spend more time in front of a laptop than in most rooms of our home. Yet the experience we have is far from a cozy environment that makes us feel at home.

The next job of design is meaning: products that make users feel at home.

From On designing meaningful products in the AI Era, by Adriano Fontanari, November 2026.

Read the essay ↗On adrianofontanari.com

Five principles from the essay

  1. Protect the coreA handful of features that address the core needs. Privacy and safety are part of the core.
  2. Respect the utility ratioDesign for the activity. Past the optimum, more time is waste.
  3. Make it malleableLet users adapt the tool to their needs with minimal friction.
  4. Design for meaningMake users feel at home.
  5. Earn trust, never exploit itSatisfy the needs of the user without abusing their trust.
Adriano Fontanari, a pixel-art portrait.

The author

Made by Adriano Fontanari.

A product manager in Italy who builds products to protect people, making them feel at home. adrianofontanari.com

Your notes are ready to move in.

Free, for your Obsidian vault. Your notes stay exactly as they are.

Already use Obsidian?

  1. Open Settings, then Community plugins
  2. Select Browse, search “Casa”, Install
  3. Select Enable. Your room opens in a new tab
Download Casa · free

No account. Remove it and your vault is exactly as it was. Read the code.

New to Obsidian? Download it here first.

On a phone? Casa runs in Obsidian on your computer. Email yourself the link and install it there.

Free plugin for Obsidian desktop · Mac, Windows, Linux