# How to read the user guide off-line The Tasks user guide is an **Obsidian vault**. The online documentation is a published version of that vault, and you can also open a released copy locally in Obsidian. ## Open a released copy of the user guide in Obsidian If you want an off-line copy of the Tasks user guide, the safest (and easiest) approach is to use a **released snapshot**. 1. Open the [Tasks releases page](https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks/releases). 2. Open the most recent release. 3. In the **Assets** section, download either: - **Source code (zip)**, or - **Source code (tar.gz)** 4. Expand the downloaded file. 5. In Obsidian, [open](https://obsidian.md/help/manage-vaults#Create+vault+from+an+existing+folder) the extracted `docs` folder as a vault. 6. Start reading from **Introduction**. You can then read the user guide locally in Obsidian. > [!note] > You do **not** need to enable any plugins in that vault in order to read the documentation. > > For the best reading experience, keep the included CSS snippet enabled, so that the local vault looks closer to the published documentation.