May 1st, 2024

My Obsidian Plug-Ins

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I'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!