Obsidian Plugins That I Use

#Obsidian

Here is a list of all Obsidian plugins I use and why.

Autolink title

This plugin automatically fetches the webpage to extract link titles when they're pasted, creating a markdown link with the correct title set. Saves a ton of time and significantly improves the overall experience.

Calendar

Calendar widget to navigate daily notes. I used to rely a lot on that plugin until I came across the "Daily Notes Editor" plugin.

Commander

A plugin that allows me to create a custom button linked to an Obsidian command

I use it for a couple of things: "Daily Note Editor" and "Obsidian notes graph". It's because I've cleaned up the UI from the ribbon menu so there are no other places for those buttons.

Create Note in Folder

It allows separate hotkeys and commands for creating new notes in specific dirs.

For example:

Custom File Explorer Sorting

A plugin that I use to organize the side panel dirs and notes in a certain order.

Daily Notes Editor

A plugin that embeds all journal notes in a single scrollable note, as it works in [[Logseq]] The best thing I've ever seen for the journalling is that it creates a continuous feed of journal notes

Dataview

A plugin that allows to query notes like a database in SQL-like query language. I use it in a quite limited way because its capabilities are far beyond the markdown text files capabilities. So it won't work out of obsidian.

However, I find it useful for tracking recently edited and added notes and also for revising the old ones.

Escalidraw

Brings Escalidraw drawing features to Obsidian. It's useful when I need to draft a doodle without leaving the Obsidian space.

Find orphaned files and broken links

It's a handy maintenance tool for Zettelkasten

Git

The plugin commits changes by timer. It allows me to have a versioned backup of Zettelkasten effortlessly.

Hide Folders

I use it to hide folders from the main Obsidian Explorer but still keep them accessible from other parts of Obsidian: other plugins, etc.

Why not dot? Dot notation does the job, but makes directories and files completely unaccessible from Obsidian and its plugins.

Hider

A must-have plugin for me allowing to declutter the Obsidian UI together with "Minimal Theme", "Minimal Theme Settings" and "Style Settings" plugins

Iconic

I use it to replace some of the icons.

Kindle Highlights

I use this tool to import highlights right from my Kindle reader.

Minimal Theme Settings

The minimal theme is gorgeous. The plugin allows me to tweak it.

Mononote

Ensures that any note is not opened twice in different tabs because when it happens it's annoying.

Turned it off for now because it makes tabs glitchy. Still decided to keep it for a while just in case it improves in the future.

Obsidian Ghost Publish

It's a plugin that turned to be a foundation of my custom plugin to publish notes directly to my blog.

Omnisearch

Search engine for Obsidian that just works.

Outliner

Another bullet-list improvement allows us to move the items across the list with hotkeys.

Unfortunately, it makes bullet lists buggy. Maybe a configuration issue.

Pandoc Plugin

Gives options to export notes to a variety of formats including PDFs, ePub books, HTML, etc. Don't remember the last time I used it, but let it be.

Paste URL into selection

As simple as the title says.

Requires "do nothing" option when nothing is selected in order not to cause conflicts with the "Autolink title" plugin

Reading time

Simple plugin to display an estimated reading time for the note to the status bar. Can be useful sometimes, but since I have a hidden status bar most of the time... it turns out to be not so useful.

ReaditLater

Adds a quick share to the Obsidian feature. It turns an iPhone into a web clipper dumping all read-later items into a specified folder with a specified template.

Regex find/replace

Does exactly what it states. Honestly, I hate regex and I don't remember why I installed it.

Slash Commander

Currently in a testing mode as an alternative to commands hotkeys. Pretty much like it especially for integration with Templater and Tasks plugins

Update: After some time I switched to the core "Slash command" plugin which is basically the same thing.

Update 2: Finally, switched back to hotkeys since it's still much faster. It turned out that I've got enough keys on the keyboard and memory capacity to use hotkeys.

Smart Random Note

It's a 10x plugin for fun and profit. Have nothing to do? Open a random note and clean it up. Still better than doomscrolling social media.

Compared to a built-in random note, it's capable of opening a random note with a specified tag or from search results which makes opening a random note much more meaningful.

Style Settings

Minor tweaks like font sizes, checkbox shapes, properties section visual tweaks, etc.

Tag Wrangler

It's a pretty powerful plugin that allows me to merge and rename tags in the vault. Significantly reduces the cost of mistakes in Zettelkasten formatting and organization. Before this plugin, I had to open my vault in a VSCode and perform bulk find & replace which was very annoying.

Tasks

I use it to track all outstanding Zettelkasten-exclusive tasks in one place.

Zettelkasten and Obsidian in particular are exceptionally bad for task management. But it's the opposite for Zettelkasten-exclusive tasks, like "clean this note up" "think over the question, etc." Being able to keep track in a single place is a superpower.

Templater

I use Templater for all kinds of notes: Zettelkasten Note Types. I also use it to paste different kinds of markdown snippets that I use frequently so that they look consistent within my vault: tables, reference footers, date/time insertions, etc.

Update Modified Date

The plugin updates the specified last modified date property of a note when the note is changed.

The problem with the file's modified date is that it's related to the file itself, not actually the note. So it's easy to mess things up by moving a note to another dir or even a directory rename.

The plugin allows me to know when the note was actually modified which is quite handy when keeping track of my old/new notes.

Vault Statistics

Puts some vault statistics in the status bar including the number of notes, files, attachments, and links. I hide the status bar 99% of the time so I don't know why I'm still using the plugin.

Vertical Tabs

I've tried it out. It's exactly what I need to be happy, but it lacks an important option to hide unnecessary buttons. That's why I put it on pause.

Zoom

A better way to work with bullet lists allowing to zoom into and go back.