2024-01-06：Obsidian Weekly

2024-01-06：Obsidian Weekly

Abstract

Statistical time: 2023-12-30 21:00 ~ 2024-01-05 21:00
Statement: This column is inspired by a series of Obsidian Roundup articles written and published by Ms. Eleanor Konik from April 2021 to June 2023. Those interested may follow the original author’s personal website Obsidian Iceberg. The section’s content is sourced from the official Obsidian Discord channel and information on corresponding projects on Github or there independent websites. Descriptions may have been modified based on personal interpretation, and corrections are welcome if there are any inaccuracies. Thank you to the Obsidian team for bringing us such excellent software.

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

Meal Plan by Tyler Mayoff helps you manage your list of recipes as well as plan meals for the week.

Emoji Autocomplete by KraXen72 allows you to easily insert emoji by their shortcodes. Note that this plugin is incompatible with Emoji Shortcodes (this is a full replacement) and Icon Shortcodes.

open-as-md by kursad-k lets you edit non-markdown files in Obsidian.

Ribbon Divider by Andrew McGivery allows you to add dividers to the ribbon to space out your icons.

Hill Charts by stufro is used to add hill charts to your notes.

Canvas Card Background Remover by luxmargos can be used to make the background of cards transparent in the Canvas.

Updates

Imgur plugin v2.5.0 by Kirill Gavrilov added support for pasting on canvas.

ZettelFlow v2.0.0 by RafaelGB focused on improving the script, now allows:

• Integration with Dataview and Templater
• a JS editor directly on Obsidian
• DnD your JS files in your canvas to be executed
• Improved embed nodes to allow custom text as a description

Metadata Menu v0.7.0 by mdelobelle added new fields for managing Media files - media and MultiMedia and improved field selectors, fileclass management, and API methods. Details are as follows:

• New types: Media and MultiMedia
  • Like File and MultiFile field type but for non .md files
  • Select the folder to search your media files
  • Choose an embed size for images
  • Choose a gallery or list mode for Media modal search
  • See documentation
• Improved field settings
  • Better field type selector
  • Better field parent selector
• Fileclass management
  • Links in tableview not broken anymore after obsidian cache update
  • The add fileclass modal after create will only show up for markdown file creation
• Api method
  • postValues: id argument has been replaced by indexedPath to match the field setting definition
  • postNamedFieldValues: create or modify fields by name (instead of indexedPath). Easier to manipulate but less precise in case of multiple fields having the same name

Shukuchi v0.4.0 by tadashi-aikawa added an Open link in new window command.

Colored Tags Wrangler v0.16.3 by AndreasSasDev added two buttons next to the Tag Color picker which allowing users to move the tags around in the order , a command to export the tags as a JSON codeblock at the caret and two experimental commands, enabled in the debug settings, allowing the plugin (on Desktop) to directly overwrite the .obsidian/graph.json file with the same data. The new settings’ version is version 11 and changes how the Tags.ColorPicker is stored.

Tasks v5.5.0 by Martin Schenck and Clare Macrae added cancelled date field which is enabled by default and improved Edit Task Modal.

Metadata Menu v0.7.1 by mdelobelle changed the order of fields for fileClasses in the field settings tab to apply on:

• Missing fields insertion
• MDM icon modal fields order (if the note has already fields in it, the order of the fields in the note will have higher priority over the settings order)
• Fileclass tableview columns default order
• MDM Code block columns default order Also fixed the problem of inserting missing fields not inserted in reverse order.

Meta Bind v0.11.0 by Moritz Jung

• New Features
  • Meta Bind Buttons can now update metadata
  • CSS Classes can now be added to Meta Bind Buttons
  • A tooltip that is different from the label can now be added to Meta Bind Buttons
  • The useLinks argument for suggester like input fields now supports the partial value
• Changes
  • The computed value of math view fields will now be saved as a number if it is a number
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a multitude of small issues related to unloading and the button builder

Arcana v1.6.0 by A-F-V added a new tool Marco Polo, you can:

• Ask Polo to suggest a new location for a note or all notes within a folder.
• Give rules governing suggestions in settings.
• Can accept and reject suggestions.

Pending

Caution

Notice: The following plugins have not yet passed code scrutiny and therefore have not been added to the Community Plugins. Before installing, please make sure you have fully understood and accepted the potential security risks involved.

Reason by josh is a plugin designed to use AI to help users retrieve, extract, analyze, and synthesize Obsidian notes. It is still in testing, please click the link ahead to view and register if you are interested.

Obsidian Canvas Style Menu v0.0.6 by michaellw updated with the following new features:

• Brand new plugin settings page, now you can easily customize your canvas style menu settings. The settings from the previous version will be automatically migrated.
• Support for Export, Import, Save as, and Restore style package. (currently only menu and icon settings, CSS file still needs to be exported and imported separately according to the Obsidian method.)
• Style packages are centrally managed in the “packages” folder within the plugin directory. When you export the package, it will be exported to the “packages” folder. You can open the folder by using the “Open packages folder” button. When you import the package, put the package file in to the “packages” folder, then click the “Reload packages” button, then the settings will be imported.
• The new connection line type: straight line, and the elbow line still needs some work, shoule support manual adjustment of the elbow line positions.

AI Note Suggestion by Saurav is designed to make your note-taking experience even more seamless. It harnesses the power of AI vector search using Weaviate to suggest similar and related notes as you type, reducing your dependency on traditional tagging systems. You can also filter notes by tags, giving you the flexibility you need. It’s especially good for users who tend to forget to tag notes, especially those quick, smaller ones that often get lost and never opened.

• Features:
  • AI-Powered Suggestions: The plugin suggests similar notes based on the content you’re currently typing or currently opened note
  • Quick search: There is a command palette to quickly search notes without matching exect words! you just need to search with related words or concept !
  • Code Block: You can also filter notes by tags like Dataview plugin

Appearance

Carbon Theme by oqipo A minimal theme with light and dark schemes named after the IBM Carbon design specifications.

Garden Gnome (Adwaita, GTK) by oqipo An Obsidian theme that imitates the look of GTK/Adwaita.

Phoenix Theme by RyzenFromFire A colorful theme with red, orange, and yellow accents, with a dash of blue and green.

Other News

GetRecipe-QuickAdd by KleinByte A quickadd script that can be used to capture recipes.