diff --git a/lua/options.lua b/lua/options.lua
index 57880df..c0ed8d3 100644
--- a/lua/options.lua
+++ b/lua/options.lua
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ vim.opt.mouse = 'a'               -- allow the mouse to be used in Nvim
 vim.opt.tabstop = 2      -- number of visual spaces per TAB
 vim.opt.softtabstop = 2  -- number of spaces in tab when editing
 vim.opt.shiftwidth = 2   -- insert 4 spaces on a tab
-vim.opt.expandtab = true -- tabs are spaces, mainly because of python
+vim.opt.expandtab = true -- tabs are spaces, mainly because of python and because it is consistent
 
 -- UI config
 vim.opt.number = true          -- show absolute number
diff --git a/lua/plugins.lua b/lua/plugins.lua
index 347285e..ec8ea42 100644
--- a/lua/plugins.lua
+++ b/lua/plugins.lua
@@ -270,4 +270,119 @@ require("lazy").setup({
   {
     "itchyny/calendar.vim"
   },
+
+  -- treesitter asciidoc support
+  { "cpkio/nvim-treesitter-asciidoc" },
+
+
+  {
+
+    'goolord/alpha-nvim',
+    dependencies = {
+      'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons',
+    },
+    config = function()
+      local alpha = require 'alpha'
+      local dashboard = require 'alpha.themes.dashboard'
+
+      _Gopts = {
+        position = 'center',
+        hl = 'Type',
+        wrap = 'overflow',
+      }
+
+      -- DASHBOARD HEADER
+
+      local function getGreeting()
+        local tableTime = os.date '*t'
+        local datetime = os.date ' %Y-%m-%d-%A   %H:%M:%S '
+        local hour = tableTime.hour
+        local greetingsTable = {
+          [1] = '  Sleep well',
+          [2] = '  Good morning',
+          [3] = '  Good afternoon',
+          [4] = '  Good evening',
+          [5] = '󰖔  Good night',
+        }
+        local greetingIndex = 0
+        if hour == 23 or hour < 7 then
+          greetingIndex = 1
+        elseif hour < 12 then
+          greetingIndex = 2
+        elseif hour >= 12 and hour < 18 then
+          greetingIndex = 3
+        elseif hour >= 18 and hour < 21 then
+          greetingIndex = 4
+        elseif hour >= 21 then
+          greetingIndex = 5
+        end
+        return datetime .. '  ' .. greetingsTable[greetingIndex]
+      end
+
+      local logo = [[
+
+                                              
+       ████ ██████           █████      ██
+      ███████████             █████ 
+      █████████ ███████████████████ ███   ███████████
+     █████████  ███    █████████████ █████ ██████████████
+    █████████ ██████████ █████████ █████ █████ ████ █████
+  ███████████ ███    ███ █████████ █████ █████ ████ █████
+ ██████  █████████████████████ ████ █████ █████ ████ ██████
+
+      ]]
+
+      local greeting = getGreeting()
+      local marginBottom = 0
+
+      -- Split logo into lines
+      local logoWidth = 0
+      for line in logo:gmatch '[^\n]+' do
+        logoWidth = math.max(logoWidth, #line / 2)
+      end
+      logoWidth = 75 -- code above does not work with utf8 strings in lua 5.1
+
+      -- Calculate padding for centering the greeting
+      local greetingWidth = #greeting - 3
+      local padding = math.floor((logoWidth - greetingWidth) / 2)
+
+      -- Generate spaces for padding
+      local paddedGreeting = string.rep(' ', padding) .. greeting
+
+      -- Add margin lines below the padded greeting
+      local margin = string.rep('\n', marginBottom * 5)
+
+      -- Concatenate logo, padded greeting, and margin
+      local adjustedLogo = logo .. '\n' .. paddedGreeting .. margin
+      dashboard.section.header.val = vim.split(adjustedLogo, '\n')
+
+      dashboard.section.buttons.val = {
+        dashboard.button('n', '  New file', ':ene <BAR> startinsert <CR>'),
+        dashboard.button('u', '󱐥  Update plugins', '<cmd>Lazy update<CR>'),
+        dashboard.button('s', '  Settings', '<cmd>WorkspacesOpen config-nvim<CR>'),
+        dashboard.button('w', '  Workspaces', '<cmd>WorkspacesOpen<CR>'),
+        dashboard.button('q', '󰤆  Quit', '<cmd>qa<CR>'),
+      }
+
+      -- dashboard.section.footer.val = greeting
+
+      vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('User', {
+        pattern = 'LazyVimStarted',
+        desc = 'Add Alpha dashboard footer',
+        once = true,
+        callback = function()
+          local stats = require('lazy').stats()
+          local ms = math.floor(stats.startuptime * 100 + 0.5) / 100
+          dashboard.section.footer.val = { ' ', ' ', ' ', ' Loaded ' .. stats.count .. ' plugins  in ' .. ms .. ' ms ' }
+          dashboard.section.header.opts.hl = 'DashboardFooter'
+          pcall(vim.cmd.AlphaRedraw)
+        end,
+      })
+
+      dashboard.opts.opts.noautocmd = true
+      alpha.setup(dashboard.opts)
+    end,
+  },
+
+
 })