My Obsidian Plug-Ins
WeblogPoMo2024I've written a bit about my love of Obsidian before, which you can find here and here.
One of my favorite features of Obsidian is the plethora of community plug-ins that can make the app much more useful in every way. If there's something you want to do, there's likely a plug-in that can help you accomplish it.
I’m always on the hunt for new plug-ins to add to my workflow, but for now, the collection I have installed is beneficial for me in a number of ways.
My current plug-in lineup is as follows:
- Advanced Tables by Tony Grosinger. This allows you to add improved navigation, formatting, and manipulation to markdown tables in Obsidian.
- Beautitab by Andrew McGivery. This plug-in creates a customizable new tab view with beautiful backgrounds, quotes, search, and more.
- Dataview by Michael Brenan. Treat your Obsidian Vault as a database that you can query from. This provides a JavaScript API and pipeline-based query language for filtering, sorting, and extracting data from Markdown pages.
- Highlightr by Chetachi. This brings a minimal and aesthetically pleasing highlighting menu into the Obsidian note-taking app. It makes color-coded highlighting much easier with a user-friendly assortment of highlight colors.
- Homepage by Mirnovov. This plug-in allows you to open a specified note, canvas, or workspace upon opening Obsidian.
- Longform by Kevin Barrett. This plug-in helps you write and edit novels, screenplays, and other long projects. It lets you organize a series of notes, or _scenes_, into an ordered manuscript.
- QuickAdd by Christian B. B. Houmann. This allows you to quickly add new notes and content to Obsidian.
- ReadItLater by Dominik Pieper. This is a simple plugin for Obsidian to collect interesting information from your clipboard into your vault.
- Scrybble by Streamsoft. This plugin will synchronize your ReMarkable notes to your Obsidian vault.
- Style Settings by MGMeyers. This plugin allows snippet, theme, and plugin CSS files to define a set of configuration options. It then allows users to see all the tweakable settings in one settings pane.
- Templater by SilentVoid. This plug-in defines a templating language that lets you insert variables and functions results into your notes.
The community plug-in database is huge, and I know that I've barely cracked it. I'm sure there are many more useful things to check out there. I hope these are helpful for someone else out there.
If any of you have plug-in recommendations, please do let me know!