Obsidian Plugin Updates 2024-10-13 to 2024-10-19
In the ever-evolving world of Obsidian, a new wave of plugins emerges each week, transforming the way we take notes, manage information, and streamline our workflows. This week's spotlight shines on 15 plugins that promise to enhance your Obsidian experience, whether you’re a seasoned note-taker or just starting your journey. From automating your reading summaries with LLM Summary to efficiently tracking command usage with Obsidian Command Tracker, these tools offer a range of functionalities designed to boost productivity and creativity. Get ready to dive into the latest features and discover how these plugins can elevate your note-taking game to new heights!
⭐ New Plugins: We have 15 new plugins
Obsidian Command Tracker
The Obsidian Command Tracker plugin is a powerful tool designed to enhance your workflow by monitoring how frequently you use various commands within Obsidian. This plugin captures usage data every time you execute a command through hotkeys or the command palette, enabling you to make informed decisions about your hotkey assignments and plugin usage.
With insights into which commands are frequently used and which are often neglected, users can optimize their setups for greater efficiency. You can easily access historical data to see the last time a command was executed and how often it’s been utilized over time. This level of tracking empowers users to streamline their processes and ensure that their most-used commands are easily accessible. Whether you’re a casual user or a heavy Obsidian power user, the Command Tracker can significantly improve your overall experience.
Lemons Search plugin
The Lemons Search plugin is a powerful fuzzy finder that enhances Obsidian's quick switcher functionality. Designed for speed and efficiency, it allows users to search all file paths in their vault while previewing search results in real-time. Built using Rust and the nucleo-matcher crate, the plugin offloads heavy computational tasks to a web worker, ensuring a smooth, lag-free experience even in large vaults. Advanced search commands allow for precise filtering, such as substring, prefix, postfix, and exact matches, making it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for. Whether navigating through the search results using keyboard shortcuts or mouse clicks, Lemons Search offers fast and intuitive file access for power users of Obsidian.
Scrambling Title Animations
The Scrambling Title Animations plugin brings a unique visual flair to your Obsidian notes by animating note titles with a scrambling and revealing effect. Inspired by eye-catching animations from media like Aldnoah.Zero, this plugin adds a playful touch to the otherwise static titles in your vault. With minimal setup, users can activate the plugin and enjoy the animated titles immediately. For those who like customization, the plugin offers adjustable settings via the community plugin settings in Obsidian. Whether you're looking to add some aesthetic charm to your notes or just want a dynamic interface, Scrambling Title Animations makes your note-taking experience more engaging.
Open Interpreter
The Open Interpreter is a powerful addition for users looking to run AI-powered code interpretation directly within their vaults. With this plugin, you can seamlessly execute Open Interpreter commands from within Obsidian, utilizing an interactive chat interface for streamlined communication with the interpreter. A major advantage of this plugin is its automatic installation guidance for Open Interpreter, ensuring smooth setup even for new users. You can easily run commands via Obsidian’s command palette, making AI-enhanced coding an integrated part of your note-taking workflow. The plugin requires Obsidian v0.15.0 or higher and supports flexible configuration based on your vault’s environment.
InfraNodus Advanced Graph View
The InfraNodus Advanced Graph View plugin offers users a powerful way to visualize and analyze the connections between ideas within their Obsidian vaults. By transforming text into interactive 3D knowledge graphs, it reveals the main topics, identifies important concepts, and uncovers gaps in content. What sets this plugin apart is its built-in AI, which helps users generate new ideas by analyzing the relationships between concepts and suggesting ways to bridge those gaps. Ideal for users looking to deepen their understanding of their notes or spark new insights, this tool provides advanced metrics and seamless navigation through its graph-based interface. It also includes robust analytics, making it the most comprehensive graph plugin available for Obsidian.
Obsidian Typefully Integration
The Obsidian Typefully Integration plugin allows users to seamlessly publish their Obsidian notes or selected text directly to Typefully, a platform for creating and scheduling Twitter threads. This plugin is great for users looking to quickly share their notes or thoughts on social media, without needing to leave the Obsidian app. Although the Typefully API currently lacks support for images and certain markdown features, the plugin smartly converts Obsidian-specific formatting like links and quotes into plain text. Users can configure options like auto-retweeting, auto-plugging, and automatic scheduling for streamlined Twitter management. It's a handy tool for Obsidian users active on Twitter.
Quick Note
The Quick Note plugin is designed to enhance note-taking efficiency and improve linking between notes. Users can easily manage aliases with the "Find Possible Aliases" feature, which scans for display names that haven't been added as aliases and allows quick updates to metadata. The "Solidify Links" feature ensures that links remain intact, even if note titles change, by converting them to a format that locks in the display name. Additionally, the plugin offers the ability to "Silently Create Notes," allowing users to create new notes without leaving their current page. For further flexibility, it supports creating notes with different names and linking text as aliases with a simple right-click. These features are perfect for users who want to streamline their note organization.
Crackboard
The Crackboard Plugin is designed to help users track their productivity by integrating with Crackboard.dev. This plugin provides a leaderboard-style productivity tracker, allowing users to measure their performance against others. After installing the plugin from the community plugins section, users can easily configure it by inserting their session key within the plugin settings. It's a useful tool for those looking to add a competitive edge to their productivity tracking in Obsidian, especially for fans of gamified work habits or leaderboard-style tracking systems. Perfect for boosting motivation and accountability in your note-taking and task management workflow.
Obsidian FFmpeg Converter
The Obsidian FFmpeg Converter plugin is a great addition for users looking to optimize their vault space by compressing images, videos, and audio files. Leveraging the power of the open-source FFmpeg tool, this plugin allows you to reduce file sizes significantly—up to 70% for most users—without compromising much on quality. It supports a wide range of file formats, including popular image, video, and audio types, making it versatile for all kinds of media stored in your vault. Users should be cautious and back up their vault before using the plugin, and in case of conversion errors, the rollback feature allows you to restore the original files easily. This plugin is perfect for those looking to manage and minimize vault storage without losing essential content.
Mouse Navigation
The Mouse Navigation Plugin for Obsidian offers an intuitive way to navigate your vault using mouse gestures, making the overall experience more fluid and efficient. With simple right-click gestures, you can quickly move forward or backward between documents, scroll up and down, and navigate through your notes with ease. A standout feature is the visual feedback, where your mouse movements are tracked on-screen, giving you a clear visual representation of your gestures in real-time. While the current gestures are fixed, future updates are expected to introduce customizable options, allowing users to tailor the plugin to their preferred actions. This plugin is perfect for users looking for a smooth, gesture-based navigation experience in Obsidian.
Modal Plugin
The Obsidian Modal Plugin offers a seamless way to open files and links in a modal window within Obsidian, helping you focus by minimizing distractions. Whether you want to read or edit files, this plugin allows you to switch between modes easily and even supports Markdown titles and block link anchor jumps. It’s particularly useful for users who prefer a smooth, integrated workflow—double-clicking the modal border restores the tab, and custom commands enable quick access to files and links. The plugin also supports the creation and editing of multiple file types through a right-click menu, automatically embedding links into your current cursor position. For added flexibility, you can set up keyboard shortcuts to open files quickly. It's a great tool for those who want enhanced control over file navigation in Obsidian.
Link Navigation
The Link Navigation plugin for Obsidian transforms how users navigate their notes by providing a powerful and efficient way to explore link structures. With this plugin, you can seamlessly move through your notes, regardless of how deeply they're nested, making it easier to access related content. Unlike traditional methods that can lag, this plugin boasts lightning-fast loading times, ensuring that your inlinks and outlinks are instantly available for exploration.
One standout feature is its support for links from Canvas files, which are typically overlooked by other navigation tools. This allows you to visualize connections within your notes that span multiple domains. You can also customize the depth of your link hierarchy, tailoring the navigation experience to fit your workflow. Whether you’re trying to jump back to a key note or simply exploring your ideas, this plugin enhances your note-taking experience in Obsidian.
Find Orphaned Images
The Find Orphaned Images plugin is a handy utility designed to enhance the organization of your notes by identifying images that lack links in your vault. This plugin allows you to efficiently generate reports that list all orphaned images, making it easy to visualize which files are unused and cluttering your storage. Users can choose to display these images directly in the report or link to them for further action.
In addition to identifying orphaned images, the plugin provides the option to delete them, ensuring your vault remains tidy. It supports various image file extensions and offers customizable settings to tailor the scanning process to your needs. With a user-friendly sidebar button for quick access, this plugin is perfect for anyone looking to maintain a clean and organized workspace in Obsidian.
BookXNote
The BookXNote plugin is a powerful tool for avid readers looking to streamline their note-taking process. This plugin enables users to effortlessly sync notes created in BookXNote, a versatile reading note application, directly into their Obsidian vault. It supports various eBook formats, including PDF, EPUB, MOBI, TXT, and DOCX, allowing for seamless integration of your reading materials.
Setting up the plugin is straightforward; users need to specify the path to their BookXNote notebooks, and the plugin will organize and import their notes into Obsidian. This feature not only enhances your reading experience but also ensures that all your notes are consolidated in one convenient location. Whether you want to import all your notes at once or select individual entries, this plugin offers flexibility and efficiency, making it a must-have for those looking to enhance their reading and note-taking workflow.
LLM Summary
The LLM Summary plugin revolutionizes the way you manage your academic readings by utilizing advanced language models to automate summarization and concept definition. Perfect for students and researchers, this plugin allows users to batch process PDF files, generating concise summaries formatted in Markdown. The structured output highlights key sections, making it easier to grasp essential information from complex papers.
Additionally, users can quickly create new concept notes from selected text, which helps in building a personalized glossary of terms as you read. The plugin seamlessly integrates with your Obsidian vault, providing an organized folder structure for easy access to summaries and concepts. With straightforward setup instructions and support for OpenAI's API, LLM Summary is an essential tool for enhancing productivity and efficiency in your note-taking process.
🔁 Plugin Updates
We got 80 plugin updates in the last one week’s time. You can see all the plugin updates on Obsidian Plugin Stats webapp.