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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.15 Mobile (Public)

  • Export notes to PDF on iOS and Android.

  • Quick Capture on iOS can record voice notes and transcribe them as you speak, including from the Lock Screen, with recordings saved to your vault (requires iOS 26).

  • Quick Capture added to Spotlight actions and Siri, e.g. “Open Quick Capture in Obsidian”.

  • Setting Note Title to ‘Automatic’ in Quick Capture uses the first 80 characters of the capture as the note title.

  • Manage vaults uses the same design as the welcome screens and can create a new Obsidian Sync vault.

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.15 Desktop (Public)

  • Mermaid diagrams and charts now render with the new Pele library, compatible with Mermaid 12.1.0 syntax, appearing faster and using your theme’s colors and fonts.

  • Diagrams are responsive to note width and can be zoomed and panned when scaled down, and are shown without asking first.

  • URI/CLI commands added to append or prepend content to a heading, with control over line breaks around the added content.

  • Suggestions now ignore diacritics so cafe matches café in link suggestions, Quick switcher, Command palette, and Bases search.

  • Bases: filters can be dragged to reorder, and search now indicates when a result limit hides matches, e.g. “Showing 10 of 40”.

• Changelog: Obsidian 2026.10.27 Publish (Public)

  • Added support for highlight colors (🔴, 🟠, 🟡, 🟢, 🔵, 🟣) by placing a color emoji at the start of a highlight, e.g. ==🔴red highlight==.

  • Mermaid diagrams and charts now render using Pele, loading faster, using your site’s colors and fonts, and supporting zooming and panning.

  • Fixed missing padding around embedded notes.

💎 Gem of the Week

K-Plex — Large vault graphs can make it hard to see how individual notes relate. K-Plex centers one note and places parents, children, friends, and challengers in consistent directions, making connected ideas easier to explore.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• File Tree Alternative, An alternative file tree view with separate folder and file panes.

• MathLive, Visual LaTeX math editor with formula OCR.

• Better Manager, Make plugin management more intuitive and efficient.

• OZ Calendar, View your notes in Calendar using any YAML key with a date.

• WeSight, Run Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode as local AI collaborators inside your vault.

• Portals, A file browser that lets users add folders & tags as customizable tabs with icons, colors, and folder notes for easier navigation.

• Hotkeys for Bookmarks, Set an individual hotkey for the first 9 bookmarked files and open them just with your keyboard.

• Emoji Autocomplete, Smart suggestions when typing emoji shortcodes & more!

• Qiaomu Reader, Read and discover books with linked highlights and notes, optional AI with custom prompts, vocabulary review and read-aloud controls.

• Advanced Debug Mode, Enhances debugging experience.

• File Explorer Reload, Reloads file explorer pane.

• GraphFrontier, Build interactive graphs with saved layouts, gravity nodes, flexible filters and HTML export.

• Shiki Highlighter, Highlight code blocks with Shiki.

• Journals, Manage your journals.

• Enhanced Canvas, Syncs Canvas node connections with properties in note, automating document relationship management.

• Bases Charts, Bases views for scatter, line, and bar charts.

• Neural Composer, Local Graph RAG powered by LightRAG.

• ZotLit, Integrate with Zotero, create literature notes, and insert citations from a Zotero library.

• Mapsmith, Generate seeded tabletop maps inside notes, with linked location notes and building floor plans.

• Synclo, Turn notes into designed presentations and export PowerPoint or PDF; generation uses cloud credits.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] How Do You Actually Write a Novel in Obsidian Beyond Planning?

• [Ask] Can Backlinks Core Plugin Render Markdown Links as Clickable Links?

• [Ask] Reminders Plugin Seeks Closed Beta Testers

• [Show] Obsidian + AI as a Cognitive Prosthetic for Severe Cognitive Impairment

• [Show] My Obsidian Dashboard Built with Tags and Light JS

• [Show] Open Map of Ideaverse Plugin: Visualizing Notes With Bookshelf View

• [Show] Lifeline: Back Up YouTube Subscriptions and Playlists to Markdown

• [Show] Skyrim Legacy of the Dragonborn Vault: 3000+ Item Checklist

• [Show] Obsidian Home Page Built as a Bloomberg-Style Terminal Dashboard

• [Show] Nothing: A Joke Plugin With 0 Dependencies, 0 Settings, 187 Bytes

• [Show] Just Simple Planner: Timeline Plugin Where Each Card Is a Markdown Note

• [Show] Kairos: Obsidian Plugin Turns Intentions Into Scheduled Tasks

• [Show] Replacing Mermaid With Pele on a Blog: ~20x Faster Renders

• [Show] Gallery View Plugin Adds Image Galleries from Vault, URLs, Immich, Nextcloud

• [Show] Minimalistic Homepage With Dataview, Rainbow Sidebar, and AMOLED Theme

• [Show] 1.5 Years Using Obsidian for Personal and Work: Vault Tour and 30 Plugins

• [Show] My Tolkien Vault: Importing and Linking All of Tolkien’s Writings

• [Show] Obsidian Graph After 4+ Years of Dungeons & Dragons Notes

• [Show] Plugin-Heavy Home Dashboard Setup That Replaced Messy Notes

• [Show] 3D Library Plugin Concept: Walk Into a Vault of Notes as Books

• [Show] Book Shelf, Paper Pinboard, and Litmaps-Style Constellation in Obsidian

• [Show] Coffer: Astro Theme to Publish an Obsidian Vault as a Digital Garden

• [Show] Series Tracker: TV and Movie Dashboards Backed by Plain Markdown Notes

• [Show] Solo Oracle: Play Tabletop RPGs Alone and Log Every Roll in Markdown

• [Guide] Caret Navigation Principles in Hybrid Markdown Editors Like Obsidian

• [Guide] Seven Practical Bases Guides With Copyable Formulas and Downloadable Practice Vaults

• [Release] Notebook Navigator 3.5 Adds Manual Sorting for Folders, Tags, and Properties

• [Release] Doomscroll 1.0 Adds Multiple Feeds, Feed Renaming, and Frontmatter Image Previews

• [Release] Fast Find 10K: Rust-WASM Search Plugin with Fzf, Telescope, and Smart Connections

• [Release] Starlight PDF 2.0.0 Adds Image Annotation and Better Compatibility

• [Release] create-obsidian-plugin: CLI Scaffolds and Updates Obsidian Plugin Projects

• [Release] Task Trellis: Kanban Boards for Tasks Already in Your Notes

• [Release] Harmony 0.2.11: Todoist-Style Task Manager Adds NLP Input and Localization

• [Release] Jupyter Notebook 0.7.2 Adds Native Properties and Better Obsidian Integration

• [Release] TaskLoops Adds Repeating Tasks With Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Schedules

• [Release] Keep Sorted: Plugin Auto-Sorts Marked Lists and Tables

• [Release] Tagged Sync 1.9.0 Makes reMarkable Handwriting Searchable Inside PDFs on Mac

• [Workflow] Studying Chess Positions with Claude-Generated Notes and a Chess Plugin

• [Discussion] How Much Time Do You Spend Maintaining Obsidian vs. Actually Using It?

• [Discussion] TaskNotes Review Score Dropped to 3 with 28 Network Calls

• [Discussion] Lost a 2-Year Vault: Lessons on Backing Up Obsidian

• [Discussion] Obsidian Works Better When You Stop Chasing Every New Plugin

• [Bug] Tab Outline Glitches With Translucent Window: Cause and CSS Fix

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Using AI to Discover Connections in My Obsidian Notes

• Giving Hermes an Obsidian Second Brain That Learns Weekly

• How I Use Obsidian to Study Physics and Read PDF Books

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.15.0 Mobile (Early access)

  • Added voice capture on iOS: Quick Capture can record voice notes and transcribe them as you speak, including from the Lock Screen.

  • Added Quick Capture to Spotlight actions and Siri, e.g. “Open Quick Capture in Obsidian”.

  • Added PDF export for notes on mobile.

  • Manage vaults now uses the same design as the welcome screens and can create a new Obsidian Sync vault.

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.15.0 Desktop (Early access)

  • Mermaid diagrams and charts are now rendered using the new Pele library, compatible with Mermaid 12.1.0 syntax, and appear faster while matching your theme’s colors and fonts.

  • Diagrams are now responsive to note width and can be zoomed and panned when scaled down.

  • Bases: Added dragging to reorder filters, and a menu on each filter row to add filters or move them between All views and This view.

  • URI/CLI: Added commands to append or prepend to a heading, with control for line breaks around appended/prepended content.

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.14.5 Desktop (Public)

  • Updated Electron from 43.7.5 to 43.8.3, which includes several important security fixes.

💎 Gem of the Week

Meld Encrypt

Sensitive details in ordinary Markdown notes remain readable to anyone with access to the files. Meld Encrypt lets you encrypt whole notes or selected passages with a password, while keeping saved notes encrypted as you read and edit them.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Meld Encrypt, Hide secrets in your notes.

• Paste image rename, Rename image after pasting, support name pattern and auto renaming.

• MCP Connector, Connect MCP-compatible clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cline) to your vault with semantic search, templates, file management and gated command execution.

• LanguageTool, Unofficial integration of the LanguageTool spell and grammar checker.

• Personal Assistant, AI-powered workflows to streamline the management of records, callouts, frontmatter, graph view, themes, and plugins.

• Atlas VTT, Run TTRPG battle maps with tokens, fog of war, grids, dice and a separate player view.

• Bases Chart Views, Interactive chart views and AI charts for Bases, powered by Apache ECharts.

• Canvas2Document, Convert a complete Canvas to a long form document, integrating all cards, notes, images and other media content into a single markdown file.

• Next TOC, Floating panel displaying the current document’s reading progress, table of contents, and navigation aids.

• Discourse Graph, Add semantic structure to your notes with the Discourse Graph protocol.

• Explorer, A file explorer view with card and list views.

• Peerdraft, Real-time, instant collaboration on documents or folders via Peerdraft.

• Abyss Tasks, A task management interface for Markdown tasks.

• Advanced Rename and Delete Handler, Handles renames and deletes for the whole vault in one place: updates links, moves attachment files and folders, and cleans up what a deletion leaves behind.

• aDHL, Create pretty static highlighters from search or regEx.

• Better Markdown Links, Adds support for angle bracket links and manages relative links properly

• Better MathJax, Math autocompletion and customizable snippets.

• WebNovel Assistant, An all-in-one writing studio for novel and story writers.

• Inkidian, Apple Pencil Handwriting and PDF Annotation for Your Obsidian Vault.

• Video Notes, Take Timestamped YouTube Notes and Export Them to Markdown

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] How to Link Parent and Child Notes with Templater?

• [Show] Garmin Connect Dashboard Plugin Syncs Health Data into Obsidian

• [Show] Home Cards Plugin Adds Customizable Home Screen to Obsidian

• [Show] A 30-Second Video Tour of 7 Obsidian Plugins

• [Show] Using Obsidian for Software Requirements and Specifications Documentation

• [Show] I Made a Color Manager App as an Obsidian Companion Tool

• [Show] Moonpetal: A Soft Pastel Theme for Obsidian

• [Show] GTD Tasks: Gather tasks across your vault into a sidebar organized by Today, This Week, and Someday.

• [Release] Obsidian 1.15.0 (Early Access) with Pele Mermaid Rendering, iOS Voice Capture, and Mobile PDF Export

• [Release] Pele: Obsidian Team’s New Mermaid-to-SVG Rendering Library

• [Release] OpenTodo: Two-Way Sync for Self-Hosted Tasks in Obsidian Tasks Syntax

• [Release] Anatomed: Render 3D Anatomy Models in Obsidian Notes

• [Release] FCR 0.13.7 Adds Calendar Cockpit, Private AI Agent, and CalDAV Auto-Discovery

• [Release] Inkpad: Low-Latency Infinite Canvas Plugin for Apple Pencil and iPad

• [Release] Obsidian Plugin Stats: Weekly Plugin Updates (Oct 18 to Oct 24, 2026)

• [Release] Media Hub Plugin: Gallery for Images, Videos, Audio, and PDFs

• [Release] Feature Request: Instant Back/Forward with Still Page Copy

• [Release] Explorer Multi-Select Plugin Adds Checkbox Selection to File Explorer

• [Release] GTD Tasks Plugin: Gather Tasks into a GTD Sidebar

• [Release] Nav Dock: Access Notes in a Pop-up Panel from the Ribbon

• [Release] D&D 5e Character Sheet Plugin for Obsidian Enters Beta

• [Release] Theme Autoupdater Plugin Keeps Community Themes Updated with Rollback

• [Release] TextFold: Add Semantic Zoom to Text in Obsidian

• [Release] Obsidian 1.14.5 (Public) for Desktop with Electron Security Fixes

• [Release] Seeking Testers for a Rendering Plugin for Sheet Music, Maps, and Charts

• [Release] Xyl’s Starmap 2.0 Adds PlanetView Maps

• [Release] New Plugin: Relate Creates Durable Two-Way Note Relationships

• [Release] Portals 1.5.0 Adds Auto-Collapse, Reminders, and Multi-Property Sorting

• [Release] Stretchtext Plugin: Expandable Text Using Callouts and Nested Bullets

• [Release] S-Charts: Create Charts from Markdown Tables in Obsidian

• [Release] Birthday Reminder Plugin v1.6.1 Adds Daily Reminders and Search

• [Release] New Plugin: Reading List for Read-Later Workflows

• [Release] Zen UI: A Plugin to Hide UI Elements and Customize Obsidian’s Interface

• [Release] Lifein: A New Customizable Obsidian Theme

• [Release] Trouble Tags Plugin v2 Manages Tags, Flags, and Tasks per File or Vault

• [Discussion] Obsidian Gets More Useful When You Stop Trying to Turn It Into an App for Everything

• [Discussion] What Are You Still Using Dataview For Now That Bases Is Available?

• [Discussion] Overoptimization Isn’t the Problem

• [Discussion] The File Is the Interface: Why Plain Text Notes Outlast Apps and Suit AI

• [Bug] CLI obsidian eval Prints Result Then Never Exits

• [Bug] Wikilink Syntax Inside Link Text Renders Incorrectly in Editor

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Claude Obsidian v3: Free AI Second Brain Gets Major Upgrade

• How Hermes Agent + Obsidian Can Change Everything

• Voice Briefing: Turn Obsidian Notes into Audio Summaries

• Obsidian Masterclass: Build an AI Second Brain (Tamil)

• Build a Second Brain with Obsidian and Codex: A Step-by-Step Guide

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💎 Gem of the Week

Paste Image Rename

Pasted images often end up with filenames that tell you little about their contents. Paste Image Rename prompts you to name them as you paste, or automatically generates filenames from the current note’s title.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Grill, Chat with your notes and review them through AI quizzes and spaced repetition.

• Vault Pet, Raise a pixel cat that levels up as you write, with daily quests and collectible rewards.

• Vault Todos, Collect all outstanding TODOs from your vault and presents them in lists Today, Scheduled, Inbox and Someday/Maybe.

• CSV Table, Render CSV data as a table within your notes.

• Abyss Tasks, A task management interface for Markdown tasks.

• Paste image rename, Rename image after pasting, support name pattern and auto renaming.

• File Cooker, Deal batch notes from search results,current file, or Dataview query string.

• Personal Assistant, AI-powered workflows to streamline the management of records, callouts, frontmatter, graph view, themes, and plugins.

• OCR-AI, Convert PDFs to rich Markdown, including images and ocr using the marker api

• Nextcloud Sync, Bidirectional sync between Obsidian and Nextcloud using hash-based change detection.

• Advanced Exclude, Enhances the Excluded files setting bringing gitignore syntax.

• Core Search Assistant, Enhance built-in search: keyboard interface, card preview, bigger preview.

• Hide Sidebars on Window Resize, Automatically hides the sidebars when your window is narrow on window resize.

• Surfing, Surf the net like a web browser.

• Weave EPUB Reader, Standalone EPUB reader with bookshelf, deep links, and reading state persistence.

• Better Markdown Links, Adds support for angle bracket links and manages relative links properly

• Word-Smith, The Ultimate Writing Suite - Write.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] Is There a Proper Way to Write Note Properties?

• [Ask] Is There a Vault API for Symlink-Safe Operations Within a Managed Path?

• [Ask] How to Structure a Civil Engineering Knowledge Base Vault?

• [Show] Markpin: Save Web Highlights and Annotations Directly into Your Vault

• [Show] Vault Orrery: Explore Your Vault as a 3D Galaxy

• [Show] LearnNote Assistant: Import Video Study Notes into Obsidian from a Local Backend

• [Show] Drawing Natively Inside Obsidian with a Digital Pen Plugin

• [Show] I Moved 10,000+ Movies, Shows, and Games into My Vault as Markdown Notes

• [Show] How a Chronological Game Backlog in Obsidian Got Me Playing Again

• [Show] Free GM Campaign Vault: Sessions, NPCs, Locations, and Quests

• [Guide] How to Capture to Daily Notes from a MacBook Shortcut

• [Release] Pele: New Mermaid Renderer Coming in Obsidian 1.15

• [Release] Spaceforge v1.1.0 Adds Anki Support, Adaptive AI Tutor, and Improved Spaced Repetition

• [Release] Just Simple Slides: A Visual Editor for Markdown Presentations

• [Release] mdmap: Edit Obsidian Notes as Mind Maps

• [Release] Visual Math Editor Plugin: Visual, LaTeX, and Hybrid Equation Editing

• [Release] Tomedown 1.0.0: Kindle Highlights Export Now Preserves Manual Edits

• [Release] Cool Bases Plugin Customizes Card Views in Obsidian Bases

• [Release] D&D Character Sheet and Builder for Obsidian v2.0.0

• [Release] GPT Pages Importer Plugin Brings ChatGPT Pages Charts and HTML into Obsidian

• [Release] MDFriday Releases Creator Digital Garden Theme with Obsidian Bases Support

• [Release] 5e Character Sheet Plugin for D&D 5e (2014 Rules)

• [Release] S-Color-Inline: See CSS Colors in Inline Code as a Swatch or Badge

• [Release] Home Cards: Customizable Start Page for Your Vault

• [Release] Flashcard Bank Plugin Lets You Explore Anki Cards as a Knowledge Graph

• [Release] Pixkit (ImageMagick) Plugin: Optimize Images in Notes, Bulk Edits, and Link Updates

• [Release] Excalidraw PR Adds Syntax-Highlighted Code Block Element

• [Release] S-Calc 0.8.0: Calculator Labels Now Work in Any Language

• [Release] Obsidian Jupyter Notebook Plugin: Create, Edit, and Run Notebooks Natively

• [Release] CarbonWire: A Lightweight Open-Source API Client Plugin for Obsidian

• [Release] Word-Smith v1.8.3 Adds 21 Languages, Deadlines, and Citations

• [Release] Chat Notes: A Messenger Inside Your Vault

• [Release] Video Embed Plugin Embeds YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok Videos in Notes

• [Release] Static Aurora: An Obsidian Theme That Changes Color with Your Music

• [Release] Random Theme Plugin Rotates Community Themes Daily

• [Release] Signal to Markdown Tool Updated for New JSONL Export

• [Release] Bookmarks Sync: New Plugin to Sync Browser Bookmarks into Obsidian

• [Release] Taskloop: A Simple Task and Project Manager Plugin

• [Workflow] Using Voice Dictation on Morning Walks to Build a Knowledge OS

• [Discussion] What Do You Use for Charts in Obsidian Notes?

• [Discussion] How Do You Balance Vault Maintenance with Actual Work?

• [Discussion] Dreaming of an Official Obsidian Cloud MCP for 24/7 Vault Access

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Building a Second Brain with Obsidian and AI: A Tutorial

• Spot Gaps in Your Vault in 3 Minutes with InfraNodus Graph View

• Obsidian + Claude Second Brain: My Honest 30-Day Review

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💎 Gem of the Week

Advanced Multi Column

Editing one column can collapse an entire layout into raw markup in Live Preview. Advanced Multi Column keeps neighboring columns visible while you edit, so you can work on a note without losing its visual context.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Local Images Plus, A reincarnation of Local Images to download images in Markdown notes to local storage.

• Excalidraw Extras, Companion plugin for Excalidraw high-privilege and large components.

• Jira Issue, Track the progress of Atlassian Jira issues from your notes.

• Vault Changelog, Maintain a changelog of recently edited notes.

• Advanced Multi Column, Allows to create interactive multi-columns.

• Confluence Integration, Publish Markdown content to Atlassian Confluence.

• MCP Connector, Connect MCP-compatible clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cline) to your vault with semantic search, templates, file management and gated command execution.

• Personal Assistant, AI-powered workflows to streamline the management of records, callouts, frontmatter, graph view, themes, and plugins.

• Zoomdrag, Make any image or diagram interactive with zoom, drag, and control panels

• Book Reader, Read EPUB, FB2 and PDF books with highlights, notes and vault-synced reading progress.

• Abyss Tasks, A task management interface for Markdown tasks.

• TTRPG UI Toolkit, Build interactive character sheets for D&D and other TTRPGs with health trackers, ability scores, skills, and spell slots.

• Always Color Text, Automatically colors and highlights texts across the vault.

• Word-Smith, The Ultimate Writing Suite - Write.

• Colorful Folders, Automatically adds color-code folders, tags, and your Graph View with premium palettes, and auto-assign smart icons to visualize your structures instantly.

• Base Board, Organize notes into Kanban boards using frontmatter properties.

• OneDrive Sync, Sync your Obsidian vault with OneDrive Personal/Consumer.

• Emacs text editor, Partial emulation of Emacs text editor.

• CE Credit Tracker, Track continuing education hours and export records for license renewal.

• Caldera, Build a public profile from selected vault content and share notes with friends.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] How Do You Structure a Fractal Journal to Surface Past Reviews?

• [Ask] How Do You Revisit and Reread Your Old Notes?

• [Ask] Share Interesting Vaults Not Made by Productivity Gurus

• [Show] Tagged Sync: Bring reMarkable Notes into Obsidian with Local Handwriting Transcription

• [Show] Split Groups: Show a Note in Every Matching Bases Group

• [Show] Prism Plugin: Live Visualizations in Notes with Chart.js, D3, and Mermaid

• [Show] Notion-Style Home Page Dashboard for Obsidian Using Dataview

• [Show] Dishonored-Inspired Dark Theme with Menu Effects for Obsidian

• [Show] How I’ve Written Half a Novel with Handwriting Recognition in Obsidian

• [Show] Operon Tasks Meet Excalidraw: Visual Planning with Real Tasks

• [Show] Lore by Lamplight: A TTRPG Theme with Dynamic Weather and Immersive Art

• [Guide] An Obsidian Meeting Notes Template for Decisions and Follow-ups

• [Guide] Fix Linter Modifying External Files in Obsidian 1.14 Using ^file: Regex

• [Guide] Turning a 2007 WordPress Backup into an Obsidian Archive

• [Guide] Atlas VTT Setup Guide and Tutorial for Obsidian

• [Release] Folder Git: One Git Repository per Folder with GitHub and Forgejo Support

• [Release] Tela: A New Obsidian Theme Audited for WCAG AA Contrast on 346 Screens

• [Release] TaskForge 3.0 Adds Windows App, Note Editing, and Bulk Task Editing

• [Release] Lemma: Flashcards, Active Recall & FSRS Spaced Repetition in Your Notes

• [Release] Abyss Tasks: A New Task Manager Plugin for Obsidian

• [Release] Android Widget for Markdown Notes Now on Google Play

• [Release] Property Reminders Plugin Turns Note Properties into Reminders

• [Release] Grill 8.0: Chat with Your Vault and Test Your Notes

• [Release] LCARS for Obsidian Plugin: Picard-Era Theme with Trek Additions

• [Release] Activity Timeline Plugin Shows Daily Note History with Previews

• [Release] Age Writer: Generate Worlds from Code Blocks in Obsidian

• [Release] Bliss for Obsidian: A Y2K, Windows-XP Inspired Desktop Theme

• [Release] Neovim View Plugin Embeds Neovim in Obsidian

• [Release] Unified Tag Links: Syncs Tags and Notes in Obsidian

• [Release] Window Spaces: Sidebars and Saved Layouts for Popout Windows

• [Release] Blendcards: Free Visual Cards and Starmaps for Sci-Fi TTRPGs

• [Release] Integrated Task Manager Plugin Adds Three-Pane Mode and Improved Mobile Experience

• [Release] Gallery: New Plugin for Browsing Images and Videos in Obsidian

• [Release] Dark Reader Plugin for Obsidian Web Viewer Matches Theme Colors

• [Release] TaskFlow 1.2.0 Adds Compact Mode for Sidebar and Narrow Views

• [Release] Cursor-Smith Update Adds Typewriter Sounds, Randomizer, and Anvil Sparks

• [Release] Google Docs Now Natively Supports Markdown (.md) Files

• [Workflow] My System Around Obsidian to Ingest Info, Sync, and Backup Notes

• [Discussion] ZotFlow Adding Zotero Local API Support: How Do You Sync Your Vault?

• [Discussion] Does Anyone Else Use the Graph View as Their Primary Navigation?

• [Discussion] What Visualizations Would Be Useful in the Journal View Plugin?

• [Discussion] Dataview vs. Bases Code Blocks for MOCs and Indexes

• [Discussion] Obsidian 1.14 Kanban View Lacks Vertical Card Positioning

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Escape the Collector Trap: Full Web Clipper Guide

• Build a Second Brain: Atomic Notes, MOCs & Dataview

• My 2026 Obsidian Workflow: A Complete Organization Guide

• My Free Plugin Reads Your Notes Aloud Like a Human

• From AI Research to Actionable Notes: NotebookLM to Obsidian

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.14 Mobile (Public)

  • Added Quick Capture on iOS 26 for instantly creating notes from the Lock Screen, Control Center, widgets, or Shortcuts without waiting for the vault to load.

  • Text and interface elements now scale with the system’s preferred text size, including larger accessibility sizes.

  • Settings now open in a sheet over the app and can be dismissed by swiping anywhere.

  • Added support for extra large widgets in iOS 27 for View Note and Quick Capture.

  • Fixed ‘Setup Obsidian Sync’ loading forever after login expiration.

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.14 Desktop (Public)

  • Added support for opening individual Markdown files from outside your vault, including Quick Look previews on macOS.

  • Added a kanban view for Bases with drag-and-drop cards between columns.

  • Added six highlight colors, selectable via color emoji or the formatting menu.

  • Improved fuzzy search in the quick switcher and suggestions, with faster performance in large vaults.

  • Fixed periodic input lag in large vaults caused by properties recomputing in the background.

• Blog: Obsidian October 2026

  • Launched the State of Obsidian survey to gather community data on plugins, themes, and usage.

  • Announced Obsidian October 2026, a community event for finishing and sharing plugins, themes, vaults, guides, or videos.

  • Highlighted the new Settings API in Obsidian 1.13 that makes plugin settings searchable.

  • Introduced SecretStorage and SecretComponent for plugins to use secrets managed in the Obsidian Keychain.

💎 Gem of the Week

Excalidraw Extras

Working with equations and Mermaid diagrams in Excalidraw requires extra rendering tools. This companion plugin adds LaTeX rendering and Mermaid conversion when installed alongside the main Excalidraw plugin, keeping those heavier dependencies optional.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Fantasy Content Generator, A fantasy content generator for all your TTRPG and world-building needs.

• MCP Connector, Connect MCP-compatible clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cline) to your vault with semantic search, templates, file management and gated command execution.

• Karpathy LLM Wiki, Karpathy’s LLM Wiki implementation plugin for Obsidian - turns notes and PDFs into a linked, LLM-powered knowledge base with entity pages, concept pages, graph-powered Q&A, and local-first privacy.

• Excalidraw Extras, Companion plugin for Excalidraw high-privilege and large components.

• Jump to link, Quickly navigate between links, or jump to any word on the page using hotkeys.

• Core Search Assistant, Enhance built-in search: keyboard interface, card preview, bigger preview.

• Weave EPUB Reader, Standalone EPUB reader with bookshelf, deep links, and reading state persistence.

• Add links to current note, A command to add a link to the current note at the bottom of selected notes.

• Korean Book Info, Crawl Yes24 to get book information.

• Side-Notes, Adds ability to create Tufte-style sidenotes in Obsidian with incrementing numbers.

• WeChat Inbox Sync, Sync text, webpages, audio, and files from a WeChat mini program inbox into your vault.

• EasySync, Two-way OneDrive sync for Obsidian, with conflict safeguards, mobile support, and optional settings/plugin sync.

• Callout Studio, Callout Studio is the only callout plugin you’ll ever need to download.

• Projects Plus, Turn your notes into projects with dashboards, tables, boards, calendars and galleries built from note properties, relations, rollups and formulas.

• Card View Switcher, Quick switcher with card view.

• Automatic Linker, automatically converts plain text file references into wiki links

• Cursor-Smith, Forge your cursor with the most advanced cursor engine there is!

• Advanced PDF Export, Export notes as pixel-perfect PDFs with live preview, style presets, manual page breaks, tables, and full layout control.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] How to Filter Parent and Child Tasks in Obsidian Bases Without Duplication?

• [Ask] Can the Graph View Show Links Between Headers?

• [Ask] Looking for Examples of Wiki-Style TTRPG Vaults

• [Show] A Single Template for Every Concept in My Vault: Portrait, Definition, Nine-Part Outline, LaTeX

• [Show] Daily Journal Setup for Block References in Obsidian

• [Show] Word-Smith Writing Studio for Obsidian Gets a Narrated Video by Actor Max Shippee

• [Show] LCARS Interface Theme for Obsidian Inspired by Star Trek: Picard

• [Show] Update: “Degrees of Separation” Collaboration Network Graph in Obsidian

• [Show] NosyGraph Intro 1: Simple Node Manipulation

• [Show] TypeFire 6: Search and read notes over MCP without an Obsidian plugin or keeping Obsidian open.

• [Show] Citation Capture saves academic references from Chrome to Obsidia

• [Release] Airtable Sync Plugin Adds Two-Way Sync with SeaTable, Supabase, and Notion

• [Release] Tomedown 0.8.0: KOReader Highlights Export to Obsidian

• [Release] Obsidian 1.14.3 Early Access Adds Group Menu for Bases and macOS Quick Look

• [Release] Qard 0.5.0 Adds Flashcards, Practice Tests, and Course Maps

• [Release] Advanced Multi Column Plugin Adds Editable Side-by-Side Columns and Auto-Updating MOCs

• [Release] RSS Dashboard 2.7.1 Adds Starred Article Import and Image Lightbox

• [Release] TODOseq v0.21.0 Adds Dashboards and Auto-Archive

• [Release] New Plugin: Edit GitHub READMEs Directly in Obsidian

• [Release] InkDoc v1.1.0: Free, Open-Source Local Tool to Convert PDFs, Office Files, and EPUBs to Markdown

• [Release] Obsidian 1.14.4 Early Access Available for Desktop and Mobile

• [Release] MDFriday Publish Update: 10x Faster Builds and NavLinks Support

• [Release] Micropatches Plugin Fixes Editor Lag and Adds 19 Optional Tweaks

• [Release] Integrated Task Manager Plugin v0.10.0 Released with Breaking Changes

• [Release] Bases Multi-Group Plugin Lists Notes Under Every Value of a Grouped List Property

• [Release] Metamorpheme Plugin Animates Between Multiple Words in One

• [Release] Lanterwood Theme Updated with Departure Mono Font

• [Release] Table to Base Plugin Converts Markdown Tables to Notes and Bases

• [Release] AutoDater Plugin Automates Created and Updated Dates in Frontmatter

• [Release] Obsidian Spaces Plugin v0.8.0 Adds Tag Support and Docking Options

• [Release] Baseline Theme 4.0.0 Released with Dynamic Color and Marketplace Theming

• [Release] Bases Colors: Plugin to Color Bases Items by Due Date and Properties

• [Release] Just Simple NPC Plugin Adds a Pixel-Art Companion to the Status Bar

• [Release] Proton Drive Sync Plugin for Obsidian

• [Release] TaskFlow 1.1.0 Adds Project Switching to a Single Task View

• [Release] New Theme: AzulejoBrutalism

• [Release] Cursor-Smith Plugin Adds Typewriter Effects and Sounds

• [Release] Obsidian Base Hub v3 Beta Introduces Centralized Data File

• [Discussion] Obsidian October: Take the State of Obsidian 2026 Survey

• [Discussion] Syncthing for Obsidian: Free, Private, and Truly Annoying

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Obsidian Finally Gets Native Kanban Boards (No Plugins!)

• The Ultimate Markdown Novel Planner for Obsidian

• Free Quick Capture App: The Tool Obsidian Was Missing

• Put a Privacy-First AI in Charge of Your Obsidian Vault

• Build a Self-Hosted AI Second Brain with Obsidian & Telegram

• Build a Local AI Research Assistant with NotebookLM + Obsidian

• Why Local LLMs Fail at RAG (And How Obsidian Fixes It)

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💎 Gem of the Week

Callout Studio

A full callout block can feel excessive when you only want to highlight a phrase or heading. Callout Studio lets you use callouts inline or as headings, with custom styles managed in one settings tab.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Summarize Video To Text, Turn YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram videos into structured notes with summaries and clickable timestamps that seek within an embedded player.

• LaTeX Autofill, Find LaTeX templates by typing English or Chinese keywords inside math blocks, then jump between placeholders with Tab. Works entirely offline.

• Checklist, Consolidate checklists across all files into a single view.

• Markdown Formatting Assistant, A formatting sidebar for Markdown and a command line interface to facilitate a faster workflow.

• Snipd Official, Sync Snipd podcast highlights to your vault with transcript, notes, AI summaries and metadata.

• Smart Second Brain, Chat with an agent that knows your notes, search by meaning, and see your vault grouped into topics.

• Kanban Bases View, A kanban-style drag-and-drop custom view for Bases.

• Data Files Editor, Create and edit.

• Better Markdown Links, Adds support for angle bracket links and manages relative links properly

• EasySync, Two-way OneDrive sync for Obsidian, with conflict safeguards, mobile support, and optional settings/plugin sync.

• OneDrive Sync, Sync your Obsidian vault with OneDrive Personal/Consumer -

• Virtual Content, Display markdown text (including dataview queries or Bases) at the bottom, top or in the sidebar for all notes which match a specified rule, without modifying them.

• Custom Icons, Enhance your workspace with customizable icons for documents and folders.

• Callout Studio, Callout Studio is the only callout plugin you’ll ever need to download.

• Advanced Note Composer, Enhances Note composer core plugin.

• Time Machine, Browse, compare, and restore previous versions of your notes using built-in file-recovery snapshots.

• Vim Motions, Full Neovim experience inside Obsidian with Lua scripting, Flash/EasyMotion jumps, Telescope-style picker, Oil explorer, snippets, surround, animated cursor, undo tree, and Markdown text objects.

• Helix Keybindings, Use Helix key bindings when editing.

• TagMany, Add the same tag(s) to multiple notes in a folder (optionally including subfolders) at once.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] How to Disable Checkbox Rendering for [a] and [b] in Live Preview?

• [Ask] Can I Force Links to Subheadings to Include All Superheadings?

• [Ask] How to Access Frontmatter Lists in JS-Engine for D&D Character Automation?

• [Ask] Is There a Plugin for Vim-Style Word Completion (Ctrl-N)?

• [Ask] How Do You Manage Flashcards in Obsidian Without Extra Friction?

• [Ask] How Do You Best Integrate Python Scripts with Obsidian for Automated Note Creation?

• [Show] How My Handwritten reMarkable Notes End Up in My Vault Using Tagged Sync

• [Show] Atlas: A Free Virtual Tabletop for Obsidian

• [Show] Cardiac Arrest Code Reference Canvas for Hospitalists

• [Show] CSS Snippet for Cleaner Obsidian Tasks List Styling

• [Show] My Minimal Obsidian Dashboard for Journaling, Recipes, and Tasks

• [Show] Synthwave Pro Theme for Obsidian - Feedback Requested

• [Guide] How to Set Up Recurring Tasks in Obsidian Bases Without Daily Date Updates

• [Guide] Fix iCloud Drive for Windows Creating Duplicate Files with Autosave Control

• [Release] Radar Plugin Update Adds Backlinks and Image Export

• [Release] ZotLit v2.2.0-beta.1 Adds Zotero PDF Reader Integration for Obsidian

• [Release] Markport: Browser-Based Obsidian Experiment Now Supports Local Vaults

• [Release] Third Mind Reader 1.0: EPUB & PDF Reading with Highlights as Notes

• [Release] Homing Plugin Suggests Where Inbox Notes Belong

• [Release] Notebook Navigator Passes 1 Million Downloads, Releases v3.4.2

• [Release] Colsdown: A New Plugin for Resizable Columns and Layouts

• [Release] Collab: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Collaborative Editing for Obsidian Vaults

• [Release] MDFriday Publish Update: Publish a Single Folder with Three New Themes

• [Release] Solenoid Properties: New Plugin for Enhanced Frontmatter Data Entry and Theming

• [Release] Fakelink Plugin Update: Prevent Rendering Links on Specific Notes

• [Release] Just Simple Calendar: Lightweight Calendar View for Obsidian Bases

• [Release] TaskFlow: A New Frontend for Prioritizing Obsidian Tasks

• [Release] Oh My Claudian: Use Claude Code, Codex, Grok, and More Directly in Your Obsidian Vault

• [Release] BookOrbit Sync v1.2 Adds Deep Links, Color-to-Tag Mapping, and More

• [Release] Eye Hider Plugin: Mask Notes and Folders with Stars for Privacy

• [Release] SP-Tasker: Obsidian Plugin to Send Tasks to Super Productivity

• [Release] Visual Card Writer Update Adds Expand/Collapse for Text Blocks

• [Workflow] Fast Vault Searches Using Bases Plugin: Tag, Filename, and Folder Filters

• [Discussion] Should the Handwriting Plugin Prioritize Offline Recognition or More Features?

• [Discussion] Has Obsidian Made You More Conscious of Where You Share Information?

• [Discussion] Do You Wonder About Obsidian’s Longevity and File Compatibility?

• [Discussion] What Do You Put in Your Daily and Weekly Notes?

• [Discussion] Why Are Note Links Helpful to You and How Do You Use Them?

• [Bug] New Image Scaling Grip Makes Note Go Blank When Dragging

• [Bug] Android: 1,318ms of Plugin Startup Time Unattributed and 2.8s Pre-Plugin Delay

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• K-Plex Guide: Master Visual Linking in Obsidian

• Think Clearly: A Writing Method for Obsidian

• From Code to Release: Building an Obsidian Plugin with Codex

• Fix Claude Code’s Memory with Obsidian

• Free Obsidian Vault: The Ultimate Toolkit for Novel Writers

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.14.2 Mobile (Early access)

  • Added support for the new extra large Quick Capture and View Note widgets on iOS 27.

  • Quick Capture’s color scheme now matches the active vault’s color scheme on iOS.

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.14.2 Desktop (Early access)

  • You can now open files from outside your vault in Obsidian, and Obsidian appears in your operating system’s Open with menu.

  • Base font size is no longer synced with Obsidian Sync and is stored in local device storage instead.

  • Improved drag and drop in the kanban layout and File Explorer with smooth scrolling near edges.

  • Editor link suggestions and quick switcher now always use fuzzy matching, even in vaults with more than 10,000 files.

  • Kanban cards can now be moved between folder columns when grouped by file.folder.

💎 Gem of the Week

Codex Panel

Using Codex alongside your notes often means switching windows and copying text into prompts. Codex Panel brings the conversation into Obsidian’s sidebar, letting you reference notes and selections directly without pasting their contents.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• dotpm, Full-featured task and project management: stunning Gantt charts, Kanban boards, Table views, customizable fields, due date notifications, dependancies -

• PanGu, Add spaces between Chinese characters and English alphabet.

• Smart Second Brain, Chat with an agent that knows your notes, search by meaning, and see your vault grouped into topics.

• Iron Vault, Gameplay plugin/VTT for the Ironsworn/Starforged family of tabletop RPGs.

• Codex Panel, Codex in your sidebar.

• Cooklang Editor, Edit and display CookLang recipes.

• Weave EPUB Reader, Standalone EPUB reader with bookshelf, deep links, and reading state persistence.

• OpenCode, Use OpenCode CLI without leaving your vault.

• Cursor-Smith, Forge your cursor with the most advanced cursor engine there is!

• EasySync, Two-way OneDrive sync for Obsidian, with conflict safeguards, mobile support, and optional settings/plugin sync.

• Flashcards, Anki integration.

• Grimoire, Run Claude Code, Codex, Grok, AntiGravity, Qwen Code, and OpenCode as local AI agents in your vault, with chat, inline editing, and tools.

• Code Space, Professional code file management with visual dashboard, syntax highlighting editor, Markdown embedding, external folder mounts, and terminal integration.

• Todoist Board, A Todoist tasks board with sidebar and embedded views.

• ZotFlow, Keep your research in flow!

• Explorer, A file explorer view with card and list views.

• Jump to link, Quickly navigate between links, or jump to any word on the page using hotkeys.

• Mobile PDF Exporter, One-click selectable preview PDF(docx,pptx,png,html) export for Obsidian mobile and desktop.

• Word-Smith, The Ultimate Writing Suite - Typewriter.

• Fold Properties, Adds fold/unfold properties function to folder and file context menu.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] Best Way to Publish Obsidian Pages Without Using Git?

• [Ask] How to Use Obsidian at Work When Installing Files Is Forbidden?

• [Ask] How Do You Track Recurring Wikilinks to Identify Emerging Notes?

• [Ask] How to Log Jira Worklogs from Obsidian Without Duplicates?

• [Ask] How Do You Handle PDFs and Annotations Inside Obsidian?

• [Show] Python OneNote to Excalidraw Converter Preserves Ink and Layout

• [Show] Lanternwood: A Kingdom Two Crowns-Inspired Pixel-Art Theme for Obsidian

• [Show] Silverglass: A Winamp-Inspired Theme for Obsidian

• [Show] Lean Launcher with Obsidian Quick Capture: Demo and Tutorial

• [Show] My Cybersecurity and Self-Hosting Obsidian Vault on GitHub

• [Show] Calendar Heatmap with Todo Tracking and Periodic Journal Notes (Obsidian + JS Engine)

• [Show] Word-Like Live Equation Plugin for Obsidian (Under Development)

• [Show] Ariadne-Flow: An Open-Source Plugin to Streamline Obsidian Workflows

• [Show] Recreating the Look of Physical Notecards with Slipbox Desk and CSS

• [Show] CSS Snippet for Custom Callout Icons, Multi-Column Layouts, and Metadata

• [Guide] How I Cut Obsidian Cold Start Time from 41s to 4s with Lazy Loader and onLayoutReady()

• [Guide] The Process of Smart Note-Taking: A Personal Workflow Guide

• [Guide] How to Sync Android Vault in Background with Termux

• [Release] Atlas VTT: A Free, Open-Source Virtual Tabletop Plugin for Obsidian

• [Release] Voice to Vault: AI Skill for Transcribing Audio into Obsidian

• [Release] NosyGraph: An Obsidian Plugin for Exploring Structured Relationships Between Notes

• [Release] Obsidian 1.14.2 Early Access: Edit Files Outside Your Vault

• [Release] Story Map plugin for user story mapping and release planning

• [Release] Bear Style for Obsidian with All 38 Bear Themes

• [Release] Coming Soon: Obsidian Darjeeling Plugin for AI Agent Handoff

• [Release] Card Workspace Plugin: Visual Workspace for Organizing Notes

• [Release] Vault Coach plugin uses AI to generate exams and track mastery

• [Release] Word-Smith 1.5.5 Released with New Settings UI and Bulk Edit

• [Release] Knap Playground for Markdown Pro: Transform CSV/JSON to Markdown

• [Release] MDFriday Publish Plugin Now Live After Rebuild

• [Release] AURENYX 1.1 Theme Released: Cognitive Cartography for Obsidian

• [Release] Grounder CLI: Sync Cursor and Claude Code Sessions to Obsidian

• [Release] New Plugin: Task Overview Shows Tasks from Focused Note in Sidebar

• [Release] Lean Launcher: Free Windows Launcher with Obsidian Quick Capture

• [Release] Vault Shortcuts: A Plugin for Creating Obsidian Vault and Note Shortcuts

• [Release] Kambas Update: PureRef Style GIF Player

• [Discussion] Markdown Files for AI Agents Go Stale; Moved to Shared Memory

• [Discussion] Why Are Obsidian Callouts So Painful Compared to Quarto’s Fenced Syntax?

• [Discussion] What Are Your Current Strategies for Syncing Vaults Without Obsidian Sync?

• [Bug] Harper plugin missing from Community Plugins registry

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Obsidian’s New Features: Native Kanban & Colored Highlights

• Obsidian for Academic Research: Organizing Sources & Notes

• Supercharge Your AI with Jev + Claude + Obsidian

• 3 Real Use Cases for My Second Brain [Claude Code + Obsidian]

• Turn Obsidian Notes Into an AI-Powered Content Engine

• Obsidian for Thesis: My PhD Note-Taking System (Step by Step)

• Obsidian Quick Capture Just Became Real

• Design Your Ideal Week: New Obsidian Kanban Planner Features

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.14.1 Mobile (Early access)

  • Added a configurable Quick Capture Home Screen widget for iOS 26 with shortcuts to capture directly to different Locations.

  • Text and interface elements now scale with the system’s preferred text size, including larger accessibility sizes.

  • Quick Capture widgets on the Lock Screen and in Control Center can now be configured to open a specific Location.

  • Quick Capture templates now support {{openStreetMapLink}} to insert an OpenStreetMap link to your current position.

  • Fixed back and forward swipe gestures being reversed in right-to-left languages.

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.14.1 Desktop (Early access)

  • Math rendering now uses MathJax 4.1.3, replacing MathJax 3 and Temml.

  • Bases: Added right-to-left (RTL) support to table views, including keyboard navigation, selections, and horizontal scrolling.

  • Fixed default file to open option not working.

  • Fixed opening recent vault from OS menu not working.

  • Vim: Fixed deleting and pasting a numbered list item inserting blank lines and empty numbered items.

💎 Gem of the Week

ABC Music Notation

Keeping sheet music alongside your notes can mean juggling images or separate files. This issue has plenty of interesting plugins, but this one caught my eye: it turns ABC notation in code blocks into sheet music right inside Obsidian.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Custom File Explorer sorting, Manual or automatic config-driven reordering and sorting of files and folders in File Explorer.

• Footnote Shortcut, Makes creating footnotes more fun!

• Flashcards, Anki integration.

• MCP Connector, Connect MCP-compatible clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cline) to your vault with semantic search, templates, file management and gated command execution.

• Smart Second Brain, Chat with an agent that knows your notes, search by meaning, and see your vault grouped into topics.

• True Recall, Anki-like native system in obsidian.

• CardNote, Quickly extract your thoughts in the Canvas and Excalidraw.

• Sync Vault, Professional cloud sync & VFS for Obsidian.

• CMDS Eagle, Connect Eagle asset libraries to your vault.

• WebNovel Assistant, A comprehensive Obsidian plugin for web novel writers.

• ABC Music Notation, Render music sheets directly from code blocks using ABC music notation via abcjs.

• EasySync, Two-way OneDrive sync for Obsidian, with conflict safeguards, mobile support, and optional settings/plugin sync.

• Callout Studio, Callout Studio is the only callout plugin you’ll ever need to download.

• Send Email into Vault, Send an email and its attachments, get a fully formatted Obsidian note in your vault.

• Air Sync, Keep your vault in sync across devices without managing sync—sync only what changed, preserve conflicting edits, and use your own Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox.

• Journal Partner, Highlight timestamps in your Journal section, capture quick notes, images, and audio from a sidebar, dictate with real-time speech-to-text, and review your year with a heatmap.

• Telegram Inbox, Receive messages from Telegram bot and add them to daily note.

• Simple Citations, Add & update simple literature notes from Zotero.

• Kanban Bases View, A kanban-style drag-and-drop custom view for Bases.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Show] Visualizing 156,032 Internal Links from My Website in Obsidian’s Graph View

• [Show] A Packing List Template for Managing Trip Variations

• [Show] Kudos to Vaultbox for Dropbox Sync on iOS/iPadOS

• [Show] My Minimalist Cookbook Vault with Flexoki Warm Theme

• [Show] I Built an Automated Voice-to-Research-Note Pipeline with Index 01, n8n, and Obsidian

• [Show] Simple Streams: Two Living Document Patterns for Note Feeds

• [Show] Template Vault: Abyssal

• [Show] Create Inline Flipcards with a CSS Snippet

• [Show] Video: How I Implement David Allen’s GTD System in Obsidian

• [Guide] Recurring Task Notes with Native Bases: Tracking Completion History

• [Release] Stream Blocks Now Support Context-Aware Queries with ‘this’

• [Release] Rowbase: A New Plugin for Single-File Databases in Obsidian

• [Release] Self-Hosted E2EE Sync Server and Plugin for Obsidian

• [Release] Obsidian 1.14.1 Early Access Adds iOS Quick Capture Widget and MathJax 4.1

• [Release] Vaultman Initiative: A Component Library for Your Workspace

• [Release] Bookmarker: Raindrop-Style Bookmark Cards as Markdown Notes

• [Release] Merlay: A native visual overlay editor for Mermaid diagrams

• [Release] Evernote to Obsidian Migration Tool Seeks Beta Testers with Large Vaults

• [Release] Simple Journal and Simple Streams: Two New Plugins for Effortless Note Management

• [Release] Operon 3.8 Adds Canvas Task Cards and Embedded Views

• [Release] Sync Your Vault with Google Drive Using a New OAuth Plugin

• [Release] Obsidian Whisper Initializer: Auto-Start Local Whisper API Server on Boot

• [Release] Properties to Graph: A Plugin to Display Note Properties in Graph View

• [Release] FCR v0.13.6 Adds Journals Support, CalDAV Tasks, and Workspace Defaults

• [Release] Custom Views 0.5.0 Introduces View Editor and Performance Improvements

• [Release] Klomimory — Free SRS Flashcards Plugin for Language Learning

• [Release] New Plugin: ONO - Obsidian Native Opencode Client

• [Release] Kambas: An Obsidian Canvas Extension for Embedded Images

• [Release] Advanced Markdown Blocks: Customizable fenced blocks for boxing, shading, and highlighting

• [Release] Obsidian CEO Steph Ango Creates Knap, a Language That Turns Data into Markdown

• [Release] Compose Syncthing v2.1.5.1 Adds Folder & Device Grouping for Mobile Vaults

• [Release] Notes Widget for Markdown: Android Home Screen Vault Viewer with Git Sync Alerts

• [Workflow] Audio Note Transcription and Ingestion Workflow with Google Antigravity

• [Workflow] My Note Generation and Transformation Process Mapped in Canvas

• [Workflow] Lifelog First, Search Later: An Inline Note-Taking Workflow

• [Workflow] Using Obsidian as an ADHD Self-Compassion Tool with Automatic Daily Logs

• [Workflow] Setting Up a Wiki-Style Vault in Obsidian

• [Discussion] Has Anyone Tried the New Native Kanban View for Bases?

• [Discussion] What’s Your Approach to Handling Datetime and Timezones in Obsidian?

• [Bug] CLI colon-subcommand with key=value params fails with exit 255 in 1.13.7

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Nick Milo Reviews My Obsidian Vault: Full Session

• How I Run My Entire Life from an Obsidian Second Brain

• How I Simplified My Obsidian Vault Setup

• Obsidian Dataview: Simple Queries to Unlock Your Vault

• Teaching My AI to Read My Notes (Obsidian + Claude)

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.14.0 Mobile (Early access)

  • Added color highlights: add a color emoji to the start of a highlight or pick a color from the formatting submenu.

  • Typing == in the editor now suggests highlight colors, and an inline swatch appears when the cursor overlaps a highlight in Live Preview.

  • Added a new kanban layout to Bases for displaying files in ordered columns with drag-and-drop reordering.

  • Groups are now collapsible in Bases table, cards, and list layouts.

  • The entire workspace now flips when Obsidian is set to a right-to-left (RTL) language.

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.14.0 Desktop (Early access)

  • Settings are now shown in a dismissable sheet over the app; swipe anywhere to dismiss.

  • Added iOS Native Quick Capture on iOS 26: capture notes from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or Shortcuts without waiting for your vault to load.

  • Quick Capture now supports creating locations to capture to a new note, today’s daily note, a bookmarked note, or any chosen note.

  • Quick Capture templates now support variables such as {{latitude}} and {{longitude}} for your current position.

  • The “Insert attachment” mobile toolbar button now allows taking a photo directly.

💎 Gem of the Week

💎 Gem of the Week

Supercharged Links

When every link looks the same, notes that need attention are easy to miss. Supercharged Links colors links based on the target note’s tags or properties, so a note tagged #todo can stand out before you open it.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Supercharged Links, Add attributes to internal links with the values of target note’s frontmatter attributes.

• dotpm, Full-featured task and project management: stunning Gantt charts, Kanban boards, Table views, customizable fields, due date notifications, dependancies -

• Flashcards, Anki integration.

• MCP Connector, Connect MCP-compatible clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cline) to your vault with semantic search, templates, file management and gated command execution.

• Smart Second Brain, Chat with an agent that knows your notes, search by meaning, and see your vault grouped into topics.

• Note Definitions, Personal dictionary for your notes

• Karpathy LLM Wiki, Karpathy’s LLM Wiki implementation plugin for Obsidian - turns notes and PDFs into a linked, LLM-powered knowledge base with entity pages, concept pages, graph-powered Q&A, and local-first privacy.

• Excalidraw Extras, Companion plugin for Excalidraw high-privilege and large components.

• ZotFlow, Keep your research in flow!

• Wechat Converter, 将 Markdown 转换为微信公众号排版，并支持一键发送到微信公众号（支持自定义 CSS和公众号贴图）、飞书、小红书、知乎、微博、CSDN等20+平台。 -

• Confluence Integration, Publish Markdown content to Atlassian Confluence.

• Easy Copy, Easily copy the text within inline code, bold text (and many other formats), or quickly generate an elegant link to a heading or block.

• Publish with Flowershow, Publish your Obsidian vault as a beautiful website.

• Property Over File Name, Search, display, and insert notes using a specified note property instead of the file name.

• WebNovel Assistant, A comprehensive Obsidian plugin for web novel writers.

• Callout Studio, Callout Studio is the only callout plugin you’ll ever need to download.

• Style Manager, Provides advanced controls for managing themes, CSS snippets, and style settings.

• Note Chain, Thoughts as river, notes as chain.

• Simple Citations, Add & update simple literature notes from Zotero.

• TODOseq, Lightweight keyword-based task tracker using Logseq style keywords.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] Feature Request: Add Swimlanes to Bases Kanban View

• [Ask] Plugin Recommendations for a New Note Creation Wizard?

• [Ask] How to Embed PDF++ Selections in Advanced Slides Exports?

• [Show] Inbox Markdown Generator: Preview Timestamped Lists and Checkboxes for Obsidian

• [Show] Chief of Staff v2: An Obsidian Vault Template for a Personal AI Assistant

• [Show] Bases Formula to Group and Sort by Week Range

• [Show] Vehicle Maintenance Dashboard Using Dataview

• [Show] Templater Script for Rolling on Random Tables Stored as Notes

• [Show] MDOGTD: A GTD Vault Template for Obsidian on GitHub

• [Guide] Two Years Syncing Obsidian with Git: A Complete Setup Guide

• [Guide] A 6-Year Retrospective on Notetaking in Environmental Science

• [Guide] How Obsidian or Notion-style workflows handle the markdown database pattern

• [Guide] Fix Obsidian Opening in Restricted Mode on Linux

• [Release] Rewritten Syncthing Android App with SAF Bridge for Obsidian Vault Sync

• [Release] Obsidian 1.14.0 Early Access: Kanban, Colored Highlights, iOS Quick Capture

• [Release] UltiSync: Real-Time Obsidian Sync Plugin Using GitHub’s REST API

• [Release] True Recall 2.3 Adds Mobile Beta and Cross-Device Sync

• [Release] Doomscroll: New Plugin for Rediscovering and Engaging with Your Notes

• [Release] Awesome Obsidian: Curated List of Plugins, Themes, and Tools

• [Release] Link Position History Plugin Improves Back/Forward Navigation

• [Release] ReverySky 3D Graph Adds Landmarks View for Note Properties

• [Release] Gemma 4 E4B LLM Wiki Plugin: Local AI Wiki from Your Notes

• [Release] New Native-Feel Task Management Plugin for Checklist Items

• [Release] Word-Smith 1.4.0 Adds Properties to Any File Type for Database-Like Sorting

• [Release] Notes Widget for Markdown: Google Keep-Style Widget with Vault Sync Status

• [Release] New Plugin: Create Notes with @ Notation Like Capacities

• [Release] Handwriting Plugin Adds PDF Annotation, Enabling OneNote-Style Writing

• [Release] UltiSync: Selective Vault Sync to GitHub via REST API

• [Release] Multi-Vault Navigator: Search and Switch Across Vaults

• [Release] Geulo YouTube playlist plugin updates: subscriptions, comments, and stability improvements

• [Release] OnceMarked Plugin: Publish and Update Your Blog from Obsidian

• [Release] Vault Graph 2.0: Rebuilt and Ready for Feature Requests

• [Release] DnD Interactive Character Sheet with Builder for Obsidian

• [Release] Ink Paper Theme v1.2.2 Adds Font Options and UI Polish

• [Workflow] Using separate vaults as “apps” on Android via shortcuts

• [Workflow] Using an #unprocessed Tag to Track Note Completion

• [Discussion] Feature Request: Folder-Aware Tags in Graph View

• [Discussion] How Often Do You Revisit Your Obsidian Notes and Does It Help?

• [Discussion] Would You Use a Single-Branch Git Sync Plugin for Obsidian?

• [Discussion] Has the Web Clipper Turned You into a Knowledge Hoarder?

• [Discussion] Experiences Using Obsidian Sync for Multi-Writer Collaboration?

• [Bug] How to Sync Email to Vault Password Across Devices?

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Sync Obsidian for Free Without Conflicts (PC & iOS)

• Setting up Claude Code with Obsidian – Master prompt, CLAUDE.md, memory and skills

• I Made Writing Fiction in Obsidian Even Better

• Teaching AI to Think Like My Obsidian Vault

• Teaching an AI to create notes for my Obsidian using TLS.

• This Claude Skill Will 10x Your Obsidian

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💎 Gem of the Week

Handwriting

Handwritten notes often force tablet users to leave Obsidian or manage separate canvases. Handwriting adds pressure-sensitive pen ink directly to ordinary Markdown notes while keeping each note a plain .md file.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Image Captions, Add captions to images with inline Markdown and link support.

• TaskChute Plus, Execute TaskChute that slots today’s tasks, tracks projects, adds comments, and keeps you focused on now.

• Prisma Calendar, Prisma turns any note with a date into a flexible planning system inside Obsidian.

• HTML Reader, Open. html and.

• Dynamic Views, Elegant grid and masonry card views for Bases.

• Workspaces Plus, Quickly switch and manage workspaces.

• LearnKit, A native study system for your Obsidian vault.

• Colored Text, Color the selected texts.

• Print, Print notes and documents directly from your workspace.

• CodeScript Toolkit, Allows to do a lot of things with JavaScript/TypeScript scripts from inside the Obsidian itself

• Google Drive Sync, Syncs a vault into Google Drive for cross-platform use (works for iOS).

• Frontmatter Markdown Links, Adds support for markdown links in frontmatter.

• Gemini Helper, AI chat, workflow automation, semantic search (RAG), LLM Wiki (OKF), and dashboards with reading memos powered by Google Gemini.

• Awesome Image, One-stop solution for image management and viewing.

• Hearth, A beautiful, heavily customizable home screen — dashboard, launchpad, mission control, homescreen, search - all in one.

• Quartz Syncer, Manage and publish your notes to Quartz, the fast, batteries-included static-site generator.

• Dataview Serializer, Serialize Dataview queries to Markdown, and keep the Markdown representation up to date

• Tars, Text generation based on tag suggestions, using Claude, OpenAI, Ollama, Kimi, Doubao, Qwen, Zhipu, DeepSeek, QianFan & more.

• Project Manager, Full-featured task and project management: stunning Gantt charts, Kanban boards, Table views, customizable fields, due date notifications, dependancies -

• TileLineBase, Build multidimensional tables (Tables, Kanban, Gallery, Slides) directly from plain text.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] What Did You Remove from Your Obsidian Setup That Made It Better?

• [Ask] Option for Bases Formula Returning Zero to Be Visually Blank

• [Ask] How to Include YAML Frontmatter Properties in Pandoc PDF Export?

• [Ask] How do you track drafts and completion state with properties?

• [Ask] How to Share Filtered Tasks with Team Without Exposing Entire Vault?

• [Ask] Can Bases Filter Notes Linked in a Property?

• [Show] Hybrid Graph RAG Visualization with Claude Chat Interface in Obsidian

• [Show] Using Obsidian as a KJV Bible with Python Scripting

• [Show] Obsidian E-Ink Setup on BOOX Go 10.3 with CSS Snippet

• [Show] Lock-Screen Voice Capture for Android: Would You Use It?

• [Show] Built an Obsidian Sparring Partner for Learning with Claude and HybridRAG

• [Show] Ported the Doki Theme(s) into Obsidian

• [Guide] A no-plugin, no-CSS tracker setup for action items and projects

• [Guide] Vault Health Check: Read-Only Claude Code Routine to Audit Your Vault

• [Release] Obsidian Importer now supports more formats, mobile import, and templates

• [Release] Scientific Literature Research Plugin for Obsidian Canvases

• [Release] Just Simple Teleprompter: A New Obsidian Plugin for Script Reading

• [Release] Handwriting Plugin Model Update: 2x Fewer Errors on Real Handwriting

• [Release] Task Wheel Plugin: Visual Overview of All Open Tasks

• [Release] Paste YouTube Embed Plugin Turns Links into Players with Titles

• [Release] Word-Smith 1.3.9 Adds Organizer for Outlining and Task Management

• [Release] Handwriting Plugin v1 Released: Write Directly in Notes

• [Release] Omawrite-Inspired Focused Writing Mode Plugin for Obsidian

• [Release] BrewVault Plugin Brings Homebrewery DnD Styling and PDF Export to Obsidian

• [Release] Similarity plugin update adds multilingual semantic search

• [Release] Apple Notes Sync Plugin Edits Apple Notes as Markdown in Obsidian

• [Release] Simple Vault Statistics Plugin: Minimalist Popup with Vault Stats

• [Release] BeeRef Integration Plugin Released for Viewing and Editing .bee Boards

• [Release] Free Obsidian Plugin for Life Management & Gamification

• [Release] Delightful Plugin: Animated Celebrations for Completing Tasks

• [Workflow] Using GitHub as a simple one-way sync solution for Obsidian

• [Workflow] Using Obsidian to Prepare for a Doctor’s Visit

• [Discussion] How “Idea Coagulation” Prevents Obsidian from Becoming a Database Admin Job

• [Discussion] Using Status Headings Instead of Checkboxes for Task Management

• [Discussion] How Granular Are Your Notes? One Wikipedia Note vs. Many Atomic Ones

• [Discussion] What Might I Be Missing in My Daily Note Workflow?

• [Discussion] Kanban View for Bases: How It Could Work and What It Means

• [Discussion] How Do You Name Files in a Flat Vault?

• [Bug] Is Slow App Resume with 10,000-File Vault a Known Issue on iPhone?

• [Bug] SecretStorage shared across vaults on mobile but vault-scoped on desktop

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• What Is an Agentic Librarian? Hermes & Obsidian Workflow

• Claude meets Zettelkasten: KI-Zugriff auf 10.000 Notizen

• This Obsidian Plugin Replaced All My Project Management Tools

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.8 Mobile (Public)

  • Fixed bug causing editor to accidentally switch from reading mode to edit mode while scrolling on Android.

💎 Gem of the Week

Hearth

Opening Obsidian can leave you hunting through notes, tasks, and commands before work begins. Hearth turns empty tabs into a customizable home dashboard, combining vault-wide search with freely arranged live cards.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Focus Mode, Add a toggle to hide interface elements so you can focus on your note.

• LanguageTool, Unofficial integration of the LanguageTool spell and grammar checker.

• Unhide, (formerly Show Hidden Files) Unhide hidden files, like dotfiles, in Obsidian.

• MCP Connector, Connect MCP-compatible clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cline) to your vault with semantic search, templates, file management and gated command execution.

• Core Search Assistant, Enhance built-in search: keyboard interface, card preview, bigger preview.

• CodeScript Toolkit, Allows to do a lot of things with JavaScript/TypeScript scripts from inside the Obsidian itself

• Hearth, A beautiful, heavily customizable home screen — dashboard, launchpad, mission control, homescreen, search - all in one.

• ZotFlow, Keep your research in flow!

• Unicode Search, Search and insert Unicode characters into your editor.

• JupyMD, Jupyter notebook support within your vault for interactive programming, live outputs, and notebook syncing.

• Book Reader, Read EPUB, FB2 and PDF books with highlights, notes and vault-synced reading progress.

• Embed HTML, Adds support for embedding HTML files.

• Binary File Manager, Detect new binary files in the vault and create Markdown files with metadata.

• Date Inserter, Insert a date at the cursor position using a calendar.

• Auto Tasks, Combine periodic notes with tags and tasks to automatically manage your daily, weekly and project TODO lists.

• Supernote (Unofficial), Sync and view Supernote notes and Atelier drawings in your vault

• Codex Panel, Codex in your sidebar.

• Animated Cursor, Simple yet smooth animated cursor.

• LLM Hub, AI assistant with chat, workflow automation, and semantic search (RAG).

• Completed Task Display, Controls for displaying or hiding completed tasks.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] Why hasn’t Obsidian added native PDF annotations if PDF.js supports them?

• [Ask] Which Local LLMs Do You Use with Your Obsidian Vault?

• [Ask] How to Share Obsidian Documents with Non-Users?

• [Ask] How Do You Organize Note Categories with Properties and Bases?

• [Ask] How to List Uncreated Notes Referenced by Other Notes Using Bases?

• [Ask] How Do You Use Obsidian Long-Term for Goals, Planning, and Learning?

• [Show] I Turned My Obsidian Vault into a 3D Galaxy with Claude

• [Show] Public Second Brain Showcase (curated with Obsidian)

• [Show] OneNote-Style Handwriting Plugin for Obsidian (Windows, Early Development)

• [Show] Recurring Dashboard Vault with Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Views

• [Show] I Remade My Vault as a Dashboard-First Setup with Reading Tracker and Focus Timer

• [Show] My Obsidian Setup as a Programmer and Avid Reader

• [Show] 22 Months, 2,250 Notes, One Obsidian Vault: My Knowledge Base Setup

• [Show] Building an Entire Fictional World in Obsidian

• [Show] Health Dashboard Ingesting Smart Ring Data

• [Show] Ink Paper Theme Rebuilt from Scratch for Windows 11

• [Show] New Sidebar Plugin Inspired by Notion’s Style

• [Guide] Obsidian Automation Deep Dive: A Comprehensive Guide

• [Guide] How to Query Obsidian Bases and Output to a Polars DataFrame

• [Guide] Creating a Custom Timeline in Obsidian Using Callouts and CSS

• [Release] Canvas Retro Engine: PS1 & NES Emulator in Obsidian Canvas

• [Release] Just Simple Excalidraw: A Minimal, Local-First Excalidraw Editor Plugin

• [Release] Better Paste Update Adds Custom Regex Snippets and PDF Cleanup

• [Release] ReverySky 3D Graph Update: Ego Graph

• [Release] Canary Edge: A Modern Alternative to BRAT for Power Users

• [Release] Flexcyon Theme 2.0 Update: A Blog Post Detailing the Metamorphosis

• [Release] Day Planner Enhanced: Nested Schedules That Stay Readable in the Timeline

• [Release] Zotero to Obsidian Annotation Export Template Now on GitHub

• [Release] Free Plugin for Customizable Interactive Star Maps

• [Release] Whimsical Plugin for Embedding Boards

• [Release] Living Mindmap: New Editable Mind-Map View for Markdown

• [Release] HUQAN Trust Panel: Local-First Verification for Obsidian Notes

• [Release] Supernote Plugin (Unofficial) v3 Release

• [Release] Fathom Starmap Plugin Repository Released for Feedback

• [Release] Health Connect & Readiness Dashboard Plugin Syncs Health Data into Daily Notes

• [Discussion] mail2md: Turn .eml Files into Notes with YAML Frontmatter (macOS CLI)

• [Discussion] Would You Use Per-Note TTRPG Styles for Obsidian?

• [Discussion] Obsidian Sync Storage 10x Larger Than Local Vault — Requesting Cleanup Controls

• [Discussion] Feature Request: Prompt for Input in Core Templates Plugin

• [Discussion] Graph View Use Case: Visualizing Connections in an Investigation Vault

• [Bug] Bug: Orphaned Entries in community-plugins.json When Active Plugin Sync Is Off

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Give Your AI Agent Perfect Memory with Obsidian Headless

• Nick Milo Diagnoses My Obsidian Vault Like a Doctor

• My 2026 Obsidian Plugin Stack: What I Use & What I Dropped

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.7 Mobile (Public)

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.7 Desktop (Public)

  • Fixed files with special characters in their names sometimes not appearing in the vault on macOS.

  • Fixed inline math in a list item or callout not rendering correctly.

  • Fixed images in pop-out windows not resizing or opening fullscreen while the main window is minimized.

  • Fixed CSS Snippet menu showing duplicate entries.

  • Improved appearance of setting controls when they are disabled.

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.7 Mobile (Early access)

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.7 Desktop (Early access)

  • Fixed files with special characters in their names sometimes not appearing in the vault on macOS.

  • Fixed inline math in a list item or callout not rendering correctly.

  • Fixed images in pop-out windows not resizing or opening fullscreen while the main window is minimized.

  • Fixed CSS Snippet menu showing duplicate entries.

  • Improved appearance of setting controls when they are disabled.

💎 Gem of the Week

Operon

Operon brings inline checkboxes and note-sized tasks into one structured system without moving your work out of Markdown. Its durable task identities keep items consistent across tables, calendars, Kanban boards, recurrence, and time tracking, while a CLI and agent runtime open the same vault-based workflows to scripts and AI agents.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Tag Wrangler, Rename, merge, toggle, and search tags from the tag pane.

• Journals, Manage your journals.

• StoryLine, Transform your vault into a powerful book planning and writing tool.

• Sidebar Highlights, View and manage text highlights, comments on highlights, native comments, and collections for your highlights.

• Operon, Task and project management system that unifies inline tasks and file-based tasks in the same workflows with Tables, Filters, Calendar planning, Kanban boards, pinned tasks, and time tracking.

• Apex Dashboard, Your personal command center — memos, todos, and projects in one stunning glassmorphism dashboard.

• Local LLM Hub, Chat with local LLMs (Ollama, LM Studio) with local embeddings RAG, file encryption, edit history, slash commands, and workflow automation.

• File Cleaner Redux, Help you to clean empty files and unused attachments in the vault.

• UNITADE.md, Treat any file as any view, code editor and syntax highlighting, modals for creating and renaming files, assign views for files, unloading registries and many more for advanced work with non-markdown files.

• Weave Deck, Enhance knowledge learning and memory consolidation with incremental reading, memory decks, and practice quiz decks.

• Simple mind map, A mind map that combines aesthetics and functionality.

• Timekeep, Time tracking.

• Karpathy LLM Wiki, Karpathy’s LLM Wiki implementation - multi-page knowledge generation with entity/concept pages and conversational query.

• ZettelFlow, Create and manage your notes in a Zettelkasten way via Canvas.

• Sync Engine, The next-generation syncing plugin: Fast · Free · Extend with Modules.

• Imagine, A comprehensive image management plugin for managing, inserting, resizing, viewing, and batch processing images.

• Journalit, Trading journal with templates, trade tracking, imports, and reviews.

• Vault Operator, Real AI agent for your vault.

• Resojot, Capture voice notes in Obsidian, write them into Markdown, and transcribe them with local or cloud providers.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• [Ask] What Is Your Most Useful Obsidian Workflow Without Community Plugins?

• [Ask] Add Unix Timestamp Property Type with Customizable Display Format

• [Ask] What Are the Best Plugins for Visualizing Note Relationships in a Graph?

• [Ask] Do You Exclude the .obsidian Folder from Syncthing Sync?

• [Ask] How Do You Capture Quick Thoughts When Away From Your Desktop?

• [Ask] How Do I Display YAML List Items Separately in a Base List Layout?

• [Ask] How to Create an Interactive Phylogenetic Tree with Phylotree Plugin?

• [Show] DataviewJS Image Gallery v1.5 with Carousels and Regex Search

• [Show] Visual Card Writer: A Plugin for Editing Notes as a Tree of Cards

• [Show] CSS Snippet for Adaptive Monochrome Mermaid Diagrams

• [Show] CSS Snippet for Transforming Callouts (Rotulus)

• [Show] My Tweaked Komorebi Dashboard with Frosted Glass Effect

• [Show] Video: My Obsidian Daily Note for Engineering Logs and Tasks

• [Show] Migrating Notes from Xiaomi Notes to Obsidian

• [Show] Vertical Tabs Plugin for Managing Many Open Notes

• [Show] Retroma Theme Custom Callout Styles

• [Guide] Improve Mobile UX with a Custom Commander Plugin Toolbar

• [Guide] Self-Hosting a Digital Bookshelf on an Old Android Using Obsidian Web Clipper

• [Release] Silica Bridge plugin finds related notes and near-duplicates without AI

• [Release] Better Paste Plugin Released to Clean Up Pasted Content

• [Release] Marathoner: Track Movies & TV Shows in Obsidian with TMDB

• [Release] Miller Columns plugin turns nested lists into Finder-style columns

• [Release] Word-Smith 1.3.5 Released with New Writing Modes and Checks

• [Release] Handwriting Plugin Dataset of 575,000 Samples Now Browsable

• [Release] Third Mind Reader Plugin Beta Update Adds Mobile Support, Bookmarks, and PDF Annotation

• [Release] Operon 3.3 Adds Configuration Backup and Restore

• [Release] New Plugin: Vicinity Graph Renders Notes with Images and Outlines

• [Release] Obsidian 1.13.7 for Desktop and Mobile: Bug Fixes

• [Release] Fileclass 0.2.11 adds canvas visualization of frontmatter schema

• [Release] Plugin: Graph Files Highlight Sync Links Explorer Hover to Graph

• [Release] Plugin: Tab Multi Select — Select and Control Multiple Tabs

• [Release] Plugin: Miller Columns — Finder-Style Columns for Nested Lists

• [Release] Yuki Night Theme: Soft Cream Paper by Day, Quiet Indigo by Night

• [Release] Bookmark Canvas: A Visual Bookmark Manager with JSON Canvas and Git Sync

• [Release] Obsidian Team Manager 0.5.0 Adds Calendar Integration

• [Release] Giganttix Plugin Update Adds Custom Colors and Filtering

• [Release] Ink Paper Theme Update v1.1.7 Adds Customizable Tables, Code Blocks, and Patterns

• [Discussion] Considering Moving from Notion to Obsidian: Pros and Cons?

• [Discussion] Should Periodic Notes and Calendar Be Core Plugins in Obsidian?

• [Discussion] Switched from iCloud to Obsidian Sync for Reliability

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Gemini Notebook + Obsidian: A Powerful Combo

• Ultimate Obsidian Agent Guide (OpenClaw + Hermes)

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.6 Mobile (Public) - 2026-08-10

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.6 Desktop (Public) - 2026-08-10

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.6 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-08-07

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.6 Desktop (Early access) - 2026-08-07

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.5 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-08-05

💎 Gem of the Week

Self-hosted LiveSync

Sync your Obsidian vault across devices using infrastructure you control, including CouchDB, S3-compatible storage, or WebRTC peer-to-peer connections. It stands out with end-to-end encryption, conflict handling, and optional syncing for settings, themes, snippets, and plugins—ideal for privacy-conscious users who want an open-source alternative to managed sync.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Custom Frames, Turn web apps into panes using iframes with custom styling.

• File Cleaner Redux, Help you to clean empty files and unused attachments in the vault.

• Smart Lookup, Semantic search for your vault.

• ZotLit, Integrate with Zotero, create literature notes, and insert citations from a Zotero library.

• Hider, Hide interface elements such as tooltips, status bar, titlebar, and more.

• Fast Text Color, Quickly apply fully integrated text coloring and formatting with a custom syntax and a keyboard-centric interface.

• Quick Explorer, Perform file explorer operations (and see your current file path) from the title bar, using the mouse or keyboard.

• Consistent Attachments and Links, Move note attachments and update links automatically.

• Agent Client, Chat with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more via the Agent Client Protocol — right from your vault.

• Dragger, Drag and drop any block (paragraphs, headings, lists, etc.

• Importer, Convert your data to Markdown files you can use in Obsidian.

• Smart Connections, Find related notes and excerpts while writing.

• Relay, Collaborate in real time with live cursors.

• Excalidraw, Visual PKM powerhouse.

• Self-hosted LiveSync, Sync vaults securely to self-hosted servers or WEBRTC.

• Quiet Outline, Make outline quiet and more powerful, including no-auto-expand, rendering heading as Markdown, and search support.

• Nutstore Sync, Sync your vault with Nutstore (Jianguoyun) using WebDAV protocol.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• The Complete Guide to Dataview: Queries, JS, and Obsidian Bases Compared - 2026-08-09

• Obsidian 1.13.6 Early Access Now Available on Desktop and Mobile - 2026-08-07

• How Ditching Organization Helped Me Write 50k Words in 2 Months - 2026-08-06

• BeautyTasks: Drag Tasks into a Calendar, Not a Date Picker - 2026-08-06

• New Plugin: Present Notes Like Dropbox Paper - 2026-08-10

• LOREBASE 3.0.1: Import Notes with Custom Field Mapping - 2026-08-08

• Why I Was Wrong About Internal Links (And How They Finally Clicked) - 2026-08-08

• Transform Obsidian into Stardew Valley with the Retrorama Theme - 2026-08-08

• Turn Your Project Folders into a 3D City Dashboard - 2026-08-06

• Supercharge Obsidian: Retroma Theme Update & Style Manager - 2026-08-05

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Collecting Notes Is Not Learning | Obsidian Fridays

• How to Setup Obsidian for Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Work

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13 Mobile (Public) - 2026-07-30

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13 Desktop (Public) - 2026-07-30

💎 Gem of the Week

Maps

Maps adds an interactive map layout to Obsidian Bases, turning notes with coordinate properties into dynamic markers. Markers automatically follow Base filters and can use note properties for their icons and colors. Custom map tiles and separate dark-mode backgrounds make it especially useful for travel logs, research, and location-based collections.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• TTRPG Tools - Maps, A toolbox for interactive fantasy maps.

• Maps, Adds a map layout to bases so you can display notes as an interactive map view.

• Find orphaned files and broken links, Find files that are not linked anywhere and would otherwise be lost in your vault.

• ePub Reader, Open documents with “.

• Hider, Hide interface elements such as tooltips, status bar, titlebar, and more.

• Callout Manager, Easily create and customize callouts.

• Multi Properties, Add properties to multiple notes at once.

• Minimal Theme Settings, Control the colors and fonts in Minimal Theme.

• tldraw, Integration with tldraw, allowing users to draw and edit content on a virtual whiteboard.

• Omnisearch, Intelligent search for your notes, PDFs, and OCR for images.

• Relay, Collaborate in real time with live cursors.

• Self-hosted LiveSync, Sync vaults securely to self-hosted servers or WEBRTC.

• Quiet Outline, Make outline quiet and more powerful, including no-auto-expand, rendering heading as Markdown, and search support.

• Reminder, Manage Markdown TODOs with reminder.

• Breadcrumbs, Visualise the hierarchy of your vault using a breadcrumb trail or matrix view.

• Claudian, Embeds Claude Code/Codex and other local Agents as AI collaborators in your vault.

• Day Planner, Turn tasks from daily notes, the Tasks plugin, and calendars into time blocks on an editable timeline, with built-in time tracker.

• Markmind, Mind map, outline and PDF annotation tool.

• Sheet Plus, Create Excel-like spreadsheets and easily embed them in Markdown.

• Digital Garden, Publish your notes to a digital garden for others to enjoy.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• Keep Everything in Your Vault: A mymind & Recall Overlap - 2026-08-02

• Introducing Synch: Real-Time, End-to-End Encrypted Sync for Obsidian - 2026-07-29

• My Overbuilt Academic Workflow: Anki, Zotero & Obsidian - 2026-08-01

• Why the Obsidian Graph View Is More Useful Than You Think - 2026-07-31

• NestBoard 0.1.5: Build Visual Dashboards in Obsidian - 2026-07-31

• Obsidian 1.13: Image Resizing, Settings Search, and iOS Share Sheet - 2026-07-30

• Obsidian 1.13 & Notebook Navigator 3.3 Bring Dual Panes to iPad - 2026-07-29

• From Obsidian to Self-Hosted Apps: My Agent-Driven Workflow - 2026-07-28

• Word-Smith 1.1.3: Customizable Powerline, Prose Checks & More - 2026-08-02

• How Dataview Transformed My World-Building Dashboard - 2026-07-31

• Isinglass: A Minimalist Frosted-Glass Theme for Obsidian - 2026-07-31

• Sync Tradovate & NinjaTrader Trades Automatically in Obsidian - 2026-07-31

• Building a 3D Graph View for Notes in WebXR Virtual Reality - 2026-07-30

• PSA: Fix Broken Custom Callout Colors in the Latest Obsidian Update - 2026-07-30

• How I Built a Life Dashboard in Obsidian Between Jobs - 2026-07-29

• High CPU Usage from Background Scan on Large Notes - 2026-08-03

• Typing # in an Uncreated Note Link Deletes the Title - 2026-08-03

• Middle-Click Opening a Note from a Base Ignores Other Pinned Tabs - 2026-08-03

• YT Links: A clean plugin to fix annoying YouTube link issues - 2026-08-03

• Watchlog Plugin: A Friendly Reminder and Performance Update - 2026-08-01

• Visualizing Wikipedia’s Knowledge Graph with an Obsidian-Style View - 2026-07-31

• Word-Smith 1.0.8: The Distraction-Free Writing Suite Gets a Massive Upgrade - 2026-07-28

• New LCARS Theme Snippet with Three Star Trek Palettes - 2026-07-28

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• This Graph View Connects Obsidian to AI

• Obsidian para gestionar clientes, proyectos y servicios | Método Kepano

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.4 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-07-27

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.4 Desktop (Early access) - 2026-07-27

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.3 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-07-21

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.3 Desktop (Early access) - 2026-07-21

💎 Gem of the Week

Heatmap Tracker

Turn daily-note properties into customizable calendar heatmaps for habits, projects, and personal metrics. Flexible filters, color scales, statistics, and date ranges help reveal meaningful trends, while Markdown and HTML report exports make progress easy to share.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Natural Language Dates, Create date-links based on natural language.

• Tab Switcher, Switch your tabs with Ctrl + Tab in recently used order like in a browser.

• Heatmap Tracker, Visualize your activity and track goals, progress, habits, tasks, exercise, finances, and more—all in a single, interactive heatmap!

• Heading Shifter, Easily Shift and Change Markdown headings.

• Full Calendar Remastered, Complete Calendar HUB experience.

• Hover Editor, Transform the Page Preview hover popover into a fully working editor instance.

• Iconic, Customize your icons and their colors directly from the UI, including tabs, files & folders, bookmarks, tags, properties, and ribbon commands.

• Open Tab Settings, Adds options to customize how tabs are opened, including open in new tab by default, preventing duplicate tabs, and more.

• AI image analyzer, Analyze images with AI to get keywords of the image.

• ChatGPT MD, A seamless integration of ChatGPT, OpenRouter.

• Consistent Attachments and Links, Move note attachments and update links automatically.

• Recent Files, Display a list of recently opened files.

• Bible Reference, Take Bible study notes easily.

• Tasks, Track tasks across your vault.

• Local REST API with MCP, Unlock your automation needs by interacting with your notes over a secure REST API.

• Local Backup, Automatically creates a local backup of the vault.

• Quick Switcher++, Enhanced Quick Switcher, search open panels, and symbols.

• Sheet Plus, Create Excel-like spreadsheets and easily embed them in Markdown.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• ReverySky: Explore Your Vault as a 3D Cosmic Graph - 2026-07-21

• Third Mind Reader: Read EPUBs and Capture Highlights as Notes - 2026-07-26

• Mastering the Official Obsidian CLI: From Basics to AI Agents - 2026-07-25

• Read EPUBs & PDFs in Obsidian: Highlights Become Linked Notes - 2026-07-23

• Unlocking Obsidian’s Power: A Complete Guide to Templates & Templater - 2026-07-21

• Vault Change Feed: let AI agents see your edits without rescanning - 2026-07-27

• Build a two-agent AI chief of staff in Obsidian - 2026-07-26

• Voice-first plugin lets you talk to your Obsidian vault - 2026-07-25

• Cursor-Smith Hits 2K Downloads with Major 1.3.0 Update - 2026-07-24

• Ink Paper Theme: A Warm, Translucent Canvas for Your Notes - 2026-07-24

• I Built an Obsidian Plugin to Read Books and Auto-Capture Highlights - 2026-07-23

• Solace Theme v1.2.0: New Checkboxes, Font Control & Live Preview - 2026-07-23

• Obsidian 1.13.3 Early Access: New Desktop & Mobile Features - 2026-07-21

• Showcase: My Heavily Customized Obsidian Dashboard & Vault - 2026-07-21

• Color-Code Your Notes by Course with This New Plugin - 2026-07-27

• Link to folders like notes with [[Folder/]] - 2026-07-26

• Add GitHub token support to prevent plugin update rate limits - 2026-07-26

• Expose Task Indentation in CLI JSON Output for Hierarchies - 2026-07-26

• Fold Embedded Notes with a Click - 2026-07-25

• How I Turned My Obsidian Vault into a GitHub-Style Wiki - 2026-07-22

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Obsidian + Agentic AI? 🧠 Full Hermes Obsidian Workflow & Wiki Prep

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.2 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-07-14

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.2 Desktop (Early access) - 2026-07-14

💎 Gem of the Week

Obsidian Tabs

Organize note content into clean, space-saving tab components using simple code blocks. Tabs can be nested, positioned on any side, and edited directly with autosaving. It’s especially useful for reference notes, code examples, and other content that benefits from compact navigation.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Lean Terminal, Embedded terminal panel powered by xterm.

• Markdown Tabs, Create tabs in your notes.

• Life Tracker, Capture and visualize the data that matters in your life.

• Sort and Permute lines, Sort and Permute lines in whole file or selection.

• TickTickSync, Sync TickTick tasks.

• Find Orphaned Images, Finds images in the vault that are not linked to any notes.

• Day Planner, Day planning from a task list in a Markdown note with enhanced time block functionality.

• Advanced URI, Control everything with URI.

• Vertical Tabs, Offer an alternative view that displays open tabs vertically, allowing users to group and organize tabs for a better navigation experience.

• Terminal, Integrate consoles, shells, and terminals.

• Digital Garden, Publish your notes to a digital garden for others to enjoy.

• Claudian, Embeds Claude Code/Codex and other local Agents as AI collaborators in your vault.

• Markmind, Mind map, outline and PDF annotation tool.

• Quick Switcher++, Enhanced Quick Switcher, search open panels, and symbols.

• Weread, Sync Tencent Weread highlights and annotations.

• Sheet Plus, Create Excel-like spreadsheets and easily embed them in Markdown.

• Ink, Handwriting and drawing directly between paragraphs using a digital pen, stylus, or Apple pencil.

• YOLO, Smart, snappy, and multilingual AI assistant for your vault.

• Claude Sidebar, Run Claude Code in your sidebar.

• TagFolder, Show tags as folder.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• belki 0.5: A Calm, Local-First Task Manager with Calendar Sync - 2026-07-16

• How I Built an Author Hub in Obsidian for a 6-Book Series - 2026-07-20

• A Vault Template with Typed Pages, Wikilinks, and a Linter - 2026-07-19

• Restore Native macOS Autocorrect in Obsidian with This Plugin - 2026-07-19

• Mastering Obsidian Properties: An In-Depth Guide - 2026-07-17

• LOREBASE Now Tracks Movies, TV, Books & Manga - 2026-07-17

• BeautyTasks 1.13: Full Calendar View with Drag-to-Reschedule - 2026-07-14

• AutoIcons: Automatically Assign Icons to Every File and Folder - 2026-07-19

• Apple Notes Sync: Two-Way Sync with iCloud from Any OS - 2026-07-19

• Sync Last.fm Scrobbles and Build Beautiful Views in Obsidian - 2026-07-19

• Built My Own Dashboard Plugin After Trying Everything Else - 2026-07-18

• Building a Beautiful, Chaos-Proof Worldbuilding Vault - 2026-07-18

• Graph Search Sync: Real-Time Graph Filtering from Search - 2026-07-17

• New Theme: Obsidian Meets Steam’s Classic 2000s UI - 2026-07-17

• Cursor-Smith 1.1.2: The Ultimate Custom Cursor Engine - 2026-07-14

• Obsidian 1.13.2 Early Access Now on Desktop and Mobile - 2026-07-14

• Operon 2.2: Portable Tables That Live in Your Vault - 2026-07-14

• I Quit VS Code but Rebuilt My Image Plugin for Obsidian - 2026-07-14

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Obsidian Note-Taking System for Academics & Students - Full Tutorial & Demo (Write Papers Faster)

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💎 Gem of the Week

Reminder Plugin

A practical reminder layer for Obsidian TODOs, letting you add dates and times directly in Markdown tasks and get notified when they’re due. It also gives you a vault-wide reminder list, quick actions to mark tasks done or postpone them, and interoperability with Tasks and Kanban formats. Recent activity makes it a timely pick for anyone using Obsidian as a task hub.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Reminder, Manage Markdown TODOs with reminder.

• MetaEdit, Manage your metadata.

• JSON-CSV Importer, Import a JSON file containing an array of data, creating notes from a Handlebars template file.

• make.md, Build custom, code-free workspaces using databases, visual views, and relational trackers.

• Day Planner, Day planning from a task list in a Markdown note with enhanced time block functionality.

• PodNotes, Write notes on podcasts with ease.

• Gemini Scribe, Allows you to interact with Gemini and use your notes as context.

• Nutstore Sync, Sync your vault with Nutstore (Jianguoyun) using WebDAV protocol.

• QuickAdd, Quickly add new notes or content to your vault.

• Editing Toolbar, The Editing Toolbar is modified from cMenu, which provides more powerful customization settings and has many built-in editing commands to be a MS Word-like toolbar editing experience.

• Easy Typing, Auto format when typing.

• RSS Dashboard, A dashboard for organizing and consuming RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and podcasts with smart tagging, media playback, and seamless content flow.

• Quiet Outline, Make outline quiet and more powerful, including no-auto-expand, rendering heading as Markdown, and search support.

• Advanced Canvas, Supercharge your canvas experience.

• Commander, Customize your workspace by adding commands everywhere, create macros and supercharge your mobile toolbar.

• Breadcrumbs, Visualise the hierarchy of your vault using a breadcrumb trail or matrix view.

• Sheet Plus, Create Excel-like spreadsheets and easily embed them in Markdown.

• Excalidraw, Visual PKM powerhouse.

• Self-hosted LiveSync, Sync vaults securely to self-hosted servers or WEBRTC.

• TagFolder, Show tags as folder.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• Operon 2.0: A Unified Task Table for Obsidian, Inspired by Notion and Bases - 2026-07-07

• The Plugin Overlap Problem: Why Obsidian Needs Fewer, Better-Maintained Tools - 2026-07-07

• Trading Journal Plugin Now Tracks Sessions and Analyzes Setups - 2026-07-13

• Project Management in Obsidian: What’s Working and What’s Still Missing? - 2026-07-09

• Vinyl Catalog Tools: Manage Your Record Collection Inside Obsidian - 2026-07-08

• Best Filesystem Setup for Obsidian (Windows) and Claude Code (WSL2) Sharing a Vault - 2026-07-13

• Feature Request: Limit Graph View to Specific Subdirectories - 2026-07-12

• New Plugin: Wayback-Archiver Auto-Saves Links to Prevent Link Rot - 2026-07-12

• Emotional Time Capsule: Seal a note, revisit it with fresh eyes - 2026-07-11

• Feature Request: Sync Custom Dictionary Across Devices - 2026-07-10

• Torch Cursor Plugin: A Customizable Glow for Your Obsidian Editor - 2026-07-09

• Introducing Mini Notes: A Free, Google Keep-Style Card View Plugin - 2026-07-08

• Meet Hearth: A Beautiful, Limitlessly Customizable Dashboard Plugin - 2026-07-08

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• RAG is Dead? Karpathy’s New Obsidian + Claude Setup, Explained!

• Claude Code Just Turned Obsidian Into a Real Operating System

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💎 Gem of the Week

Hot-Reload Plugin

Hot-Reload is a focused Obsidian developer plugin that automatically reloads a plugin when main.js, styles.css, or manifest.json changes, avoiding the usual stop-and-restart loop. It auto-discovers your dev plugins via .git or .hotreload, so plugin folders are added/removed without manual configuration, and it briefly notifies you when a reload happens. It’s particularly useful for plugin authors who want a faster edit-save-test cycle and are already working in version control, with explicit mobile support marked experimental/beta-only.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• MetaEdit, Manage your metadata.

• Hot Reload, Automatically reload in-development plugins when their files are changed -

• Remember cursor position, Remember cursor and scroll position for each note.

• Better Export PDF, Export your notes to PDF, supports export preview, add bookmarks outline and header/footer.

• Hotkey Helper, Easily see and access any plugin’s settings or hotkey assignments (and conflicts) from the Community Plugins tab.

• Novel word count, Display a word count, page count, creation date, or other statistics for each file, folder and vault in the File Explorer pane.

• Vertical Tabs, Offer an alternative view that displays open tabs vertically, allowing users to group and organize tabs for a better navigation experience.

• GridExplorer, Browse and organize note files visually in a flexible grid layout.

• QuickAdd, Quickly add new notes or content to your vault.

• Editing Toolbar, The Editing Toolbar is modified from cMenu, which provides more powerful customization settings and has many built-in editing commands to be a MS Word-like toolbar editing experience.

• markdown export, Export Markdown to a package, including images.

• Nutstore Sync, Sync your vault with Nutstore (Jianguoyun) using WebDAV protocol.

• Quiet Outline, Make outline quiet and more powerful, including no-auto-expand, rendering heading as Markdown, and search support.

• RSS Dashboard, A dashboard for organizing and consuming RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and podcasts with smart tagging, media playback, and seamless content flow.

• Git, Integrate Git version control with automatic backup and other advanced features.

• BRAT, Easily install a beta version of a plugin for testing.

• Advanced Canvas, Supercharge your canvas experience.

• Markmind, Mind map, outline and PDF annotation tool.

• Breadcrumbs, Visualise the hierarchy of your vault using a breadcrumb trail or matrix view.

• Sheet Plus, Create Excel-like spreadsheets and easily embed them in Markdown.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• Seek: A Blazing Fast, 100% Local Hybrid Search Plugin for Obsidian - 2026-07-03

• Pinax: Build Dashboards in Obsidian with a Single JSON File - 2026-07-05

• Parallax Plugin: A Research Studio for Sharper Thinking in Obsidian - 2026-07-05

• Blackboard: Draw with Apple Pencil Directly in Obsidian - 2026-07-05

• How I Built a Cross-Referenced Bible in Obsidian - 2026-07-05

• Docferry: Share a Single Note with a Secure Link - 2026-07-04

• Flexcyon 2.0.0: A Major Overhaul for the Terminal-Inspired Theme - 2026-07-04

• Hotlines: Highlight Lines by Keyword or Regex in Obsidian - 2026-07-03

• 2 Years of Obsidian for a PhD: My Proven Research Workflow - 2026-07-02

• Scoped Snippets Plugin Update: Apply Multiple CSS Snippets Per File - 2026-07-02

• I Made Obsidian Canvas Run DOOM by Hacking Its Render Engine - 2026-07-01

• How to List All Quote Callouts in Dataview (with Inline Fields) - 2026-07-06

• Bases Toolbox: Faster Frontmatter Editing for Obsidian Bases - 2026-07-06

• belki 0.4: A Calm, Local-First Task Manager with Full Todoist-Like Workflows - 2026-07-05

• How My Obsidian Dashboard Won Over an Interviewer and Landed Me the Job - 2026-07-05

• Retroma 3.0.0 Preview: CRT Filters and Style Presets - 2026-07-04

• Kanban Moonlight: Turn Markdown Notes into a Visual Kanban Board - 2026-07-04

• Style Manager Plugin Now Open for Testing - 2026-07-01

• Why I Use Folders Over Tags for a 30K+ Note Vault - 2026-07-01

• belki 0.2: A Calm, Local Markdown Task Manager for Obsidian - 2026-06-30

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Obsidian: The Thinking Person’s Set Up (FULL SET UP)

• My reMarkable Obsidian workflow with the Obsidian reMarkable Sync plugin

• I Switched Back to Obsidian (because of AI)

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💎 Gem of the Week

Obsidian Voice

Obsidian Voice turns notes into an audiobook-like experience with a dedicated player for chapter-style navigation, speed controls, skip/repeat, and MP3 save/export. It works across the major TTS providers (AWS Polly, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google Cloud, and Azure Speech), so you can choose the voice service you already use while keeping credentials in your own account. This is especially useful for long notes or study/research workflows where listening on desktop and mobile is easier than reading, such as while commuting or reviewing long discussions on the go.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Front Matter Title, Define a title in frontmatter to be displayed as the filename.

• Backlink Cache, Store backlink cache to speed up `app.

• Slash Commander, Customize the slash command list, assign each command an icon.

• Wikipedia Helper, Search, link, insert and open Wikipedia/Wikimedia articles.

• Social Archiver, Archive social media posts from various platforms.

• Hotkey Helper, Easily see and access any plugin’s settings or hotkey assignments (and conflicts) from the Community Plugins tab.

• Voice, Listen to your notes as natural speech with text-to-speech (TTS).

• Gemini Scribe, Allows you to interact with Gemini and use your notes as context.

• PodNotes, Write notes on podcasts with ease.

• GridExplorer, Browse note files in a grid view.

• Digital Garden, Publish your notes to a digital garden for others to enjoy.

• SystemSculpt AI, Enhance your data flow with AI-powered tools for note-taking, task management, templates, and so much more.

• Note Companion, AI-powered note organization and chat.

• Outliner, Work with your lists like in Workflowy or Roam Research.

• Flexplorer, Enhance the file explorer with custom sorting, pinning, and hiding.

• BRAT, Easily install a beta version of a plugin for testing.

• Self-hosted LiveSync, Sync vaults securely to self-hosted servers or WEBRTC.

• Sheet Plus, Create Excel-like spreadsheets and easily embed them in Markdown.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• Lantern Plugin: Private AI Search for Your Vault - 2026-06-27

• Auto-Sync Claude Conversations into Obsidian for Free - 2026-06-26

• How I Turned 20,000 Notes into Live Dashboards with Obsidian Bases - 2026-06-25

• Kanban 2.0: Calendar, Outlook Sync & Auto-Archive - 2026-06-24

• Hold Course: An Academic Tracker Inside Your Vault - 2026-06-28

• Workout Journal: A Markdown-First Tracking Plugin - 2026-06-28

• New Card View for Bases Plugin: Organize Your Library Visually - 2026-06-28

• Smart Related Notes 2.0: Semantic Search, Fully Offline - 2026-06-27

• Embeds+ Plugin: Preview HTML, Web Archives & Evernote Files - 2026-06-27

• Advanced PDF Export: New Features from Your Feedback - 2026-06-27

• Health.md v2 Brings Mood & Medication Charts to Obsidian - 2026-06-27

• Turn Your Computer’s BIOS into an Obsidian Graph - 2026-06-24

• I Built a Markdown-Native CRM Plugin for Obsidian - 2026-06-24

• New Plugin: Modern Outline adds a customizable minimap to your notes - 2026-06-29

• Settings Bug: Wrong Page After Using update() - 2026-06-28

• Unify Move Line Hotkeys for Lines, Tables, and Properties - 2026-06-28

• Bases: Support Block-Level Aggregation, Not Just Notes - 2026-06-27

• What Would a True Handwriting Plugin for Obsidian Look Like? - 2026-06-27

• A Calm Home Dashboard for Your Obsidian Vault - 2026-06-27

• Track All Your Finances Inside Obsidian with This Plugin - 2026-06-26

• Belki: A Minimal, Todoist-Style Task Manager for Obsidian - 2026-06-24

• Follow-Up: Inside My 4-Year Obsidian Vault - 2026-06-26

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• How To Build The Ultimate AI Second Brain (Claude Code + Obsidian)

• How I Run My Whole Life Out of Obsidian

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💎 Gem of the Week

Colored Tags

Colored Tags makes Obsidian tags easier to scan by automatically giving them distinct colors, including nested tags whose colors blend with the root tag. It stands out for practical readability details: AA-level text contrast matching, dark theme adjustments, custom palettes, and optional per-tag color assignments. Try it if your vault relies on tags and you want visual structure without manually styling each one.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• April Automatic Timelines, Simple timeline generator for story tellers.

• Ninja Cursor, Enhance cursor visibility.

• Sheets Extended, Vertical headers, merged cells, and custom CSS tables with Advanced Tables compatability.

• Linter, Format and style your notes.

• Colored Tags, Colorize tags in different colors to visually distinguish them from each other.

• TagFolder, Show tags as folder.

• Slides Extended, Create markdown-based reveal.

• Day Planner OG, Day planning from a simple task list in a Markdown note (bare bones, preserves the features and behavior of the original plugin).

• JS Engine, Run JavaScript from within your notes.

• Custom Attachment Location, Customize attachment location with variables($filename, $data, etc) like Typora.

• Task List Kanban, Organizes all of the tasks within your files into a kanban view.

• Local Backup, Automatically creates a local backup of the vault.

• SystemSculpt AI, Enhance your data flow with AI-powered tools for note-taking, task management, templates, and so much more.

• Task Collector, Change task status and collect tasks within a document using hotkeys and context menus.

• Note Companion, AI-powered note organization and chat.

• Fast Note Sync, Real-time sync of your vaults across server, mobile, and web; shareable with anyone; supports REST and MCP integrations to build your personal AI knowledge base.

• Excalidraw, Visual PKM powerhouse.

• Self-hosted LiveSync, Sync vaults securely to self-hosted servers or WEBRTC.

• Share Note, Instantly share/publish a note, with the full theme and content exactly like you see in Obsidian.

• Dragger, Drag and drop any block (paragraphs, headings, lists, etc.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• Diary Plugin: Markdown Planning, Now Shipping in Obsidian - 2026-06-17

• Trust Your Import: A Post-Migration Vault Checklist - 2026-06-22

• Formula Library: WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor with 2100+ Formulas - 2026-06-21

• Full Calendar Gets Dashboards, Weather & Google Tasks Integration - 2026-06-21

• Notebook Navigator 3.2: Major Startup Speed Boost - 2026-06-21

• Karpathy’s LLM Wiki Setup: Two Weeks In, What’s Your Long-Term Take? - 2026-06-20

• 26 Lines of CSS That Beat 500+ Themes - 2026-06-20

• Neoloopy: Map Feedback Loops for Systems Thinking - 2026-06-19

• Reviving Hemingway Mode: Write-Only Focus for Obsidian - 2026-06-18

• Law Student’s Obsidian Vault: A System for Exam Prep - 2026-06-16

• Unlock Dynamic Views: Per-Embed Pinning for Bases - 2026-06-22

• LOREBASE v1.1.4: Steam Sync and a Fresh Look for Your Media Tracker - 2026-06-22

• Interlinear Plugin: Inline Translations for Reading View - 2026-06-21

• Fix Oversized Pasted Images on High-Resolution Displays - 2026-06-20

• Math Chords: Faster LaTeX with LyX-style shortcuts - 2026-06-20

• FfLAPa: A Lazy, Productive Note System for Obsidian - 2026-06-19

• Single-Select Plugin: Enforce One Value for Properties - 2026-06-19

• Never Drop PARA Again: Automate Your Workflow with AI Skills - 2026-06-19

• Build an Auto-Updating Contextual Library for PDFs in Obsidian - 2026-06-18

• Vantage: Turn Your Graph View into a Rotating Orrery & Live Dashboard - 2026-06-18

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

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