2024-02-10：Obsidian Weekly

2024-02-10：Elegant Time and Task Management Techniques

Abstract

Statistical time: 2024-02-03 2:00 ~ 2024-02-10 17:00
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.

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Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

Ctrl-XA cycle various items by nbossard

Cycle through various items with keyboard shortcuts, such as days, months, true-false, log level,… anything you need. It also automatically increases/decreases numbers.

GitHobs by GabAlpha and MarcoG

A simple plugin to create and edit Github issues directly from Obsidian with Git logic.

Soundscapes by Andrew McGivery

Adds a music/ambiance (E.g. lofi, white noise) player to the status bar to help with concentration.

Paste From History by Daniel Karakka

Paste from the editor’s recent clipboard history. Text you copy or cut will be tracked. You then have the ability to paste text from those previous clipboard events.

Hanayama Huzzles Tracker by Iulian Onofrei

This plugin scrapes the Hanayama Huzzle webpage builds a Markdown table with the information, and allows you to manually track them using a status column.

Instapaper by Instapaper

Instapaper integration.

Persistent Key-Value Store by Ara Adkins

Provides a persistent key-value store for use in scripts in Obsidian.

Full Screen Toggle by Donkey Pacific

A fullscreen toggle plugin across all platforms for obsidian.

Settings profiles by 4Source

Allows you to create various global settings profiles. You can sync them between different vaults. To keep all your settings in sync, you’ll never have to manually adjust them again for every vault you have or create in the future.

Font Size Adjuster by Ryota Ushio

This plugin adds the Increment font size & Decrement font size commands, which allows you to adjust font size from hotkeys or the command palette without opening the appearance settings.

Create Task by Simon Knittel

Create tasks faster from anywhere.
The main feature of this plugin is a modal which guides you through the individual steps of creating a task. You can open this modal in many different ways (see Usage for more details).
It won’t handle the task management after the creation since there are already many other plugins like CardBoard and Tasks.

Timeline Schedule by Evan Bonsignori

Inline timelines generated from human-readable time strings, e.g. ‘Walk dog (30min)’ in a ```schedule codeblock.

cursor-goaway by Xuer

Hide the cursor after opening a note.

Continuous Mode by Michael Schrauzer

Displays all open notes in a tab group as a continuous scrollable page (sometimes called Scrivenings mode).

• Features
  • Toggle continuous mode via context menus.
  • Toggle continuous mode in active tag group from command palette.
  • On Obsidian launch, restore continuous mode in tab groups that were in continuous mode when Obsidian was shut down.
  • Navigate between notes with arrow keys.
  • Reorder notes via tab drag-and-drop.
  • Show/hide note headers in active tab group from command palette to create a more “seamless” experience.
  • Notes scroll into view when tab is clicked.

Multi State CheckBox Switcher by KubaMiszcz

Click to handle multistate checkboxes.
This is a plugin which handle with 3-state checkbox

• - [ ] unchecked
• - [/] partially done
• - [x] done

and multistate checkboxes (customizable) with defaults as follows: - [!] , - [?], - [i], - [>], - [<], - [f], - [I], - [k], - [u], - [d], - [3],  - [6]

Single File Daily Notes by Pranav Mangal

Create and manage daily notes in a single file.
The plugin will create a new note for today automatically and select the dummy entry for immediate editing. If today’s note already exists, it will try to position the cursor for appending/editing the existing note.

Apple Books - Import Highlights by bandantonio

Import all your Apple Books highlights to Obsidian.

RSS Copyist by aoout

Get RSS articles as notes.

Orgmode (CM6) by Benoit Bazard

Edit Orgmode files.

Pinyin Replacer by LarrySAL

Allows you to use the Pinyin tones without having to install extra keyboard layouts.

Markline by 闲耘

Show timeline view in Obsidian Editor with markline code blockquote.
Add markline code blockquote by command.

Youtube Summarizer by ozdemir08

Summarize Youtube videos using ChatGPT 3.5.

UseSemaLogic by SemaLogic UG

Real-time use of the SemaLogic formal language.

Nested Daily Todos by Thomas Brezinski

This plugin will parse previous Daily Notes for incomplete todos and add them to today’s Daily Note. It supports grouping the todos by section and supports alternative checkbox states and nested todos.

Updates

Query All The Things (qatt) v0.10.0 by sytone

• Features
  • Add obsidian handlebars helper and JoinArray SQL function
  • Add settings to disable missing DataView and CustomJS plugins notification
  • Add EXTRACTLINE and LINEINDEX SQL functions
  • Enable processing of DataView Inline fields for use in tasks.
• Documentation
  • Multiple updates to the structure and generated documentation to make it more consistent and to enable live examples if the documentation is opened as an Obsidian vault.

Widgets v0.0.6 by Rafael Veiga

• Fix string split on option set
• Update invalid date rendering, don’t render dates in the past
• Use duration to calculate date diff

Meta Bind v0.12.0 by Moritz Jung

• New Features
  • Added options to insert example input and view fields, as well as buttons, from the editor context menu
  • Added the option to control if a note should be opened in a new tab to the open button action
  • Added button templates that can be edited from the plugin settings
• Changes
  • Improved validation errors for buttons and the API
  • Removed deprecated input fields that had names in snake_case. Use the camelCase variants instead. The snake_case variants were deprecated since version 0.6.0.
  • Reworked the UI for the input field template modal
  • Made substantial internal changes to the way the plugin handles metadata
  • Changed the plugin name to Meta Bind to comply with the new Obsidian plugin naming requirements
  • Removed some unnecessary console logs to comply with the Obsidian plugin guidelines
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with the stepSize argument causing floating point errors under specific conditions when used with the progressBar input
  • Fixed parsing errors not showing in the input field template modal
  • Fixed button id collisions
  • Fixed buttons not unloading on file rename or delete
  • Fixed not being able to scroll the editor input field
  • Fixed the editor input field overflowing

Github Publisher v6.14.2 by Mara-Li

• Features
  • Add dryRun settings
  • Set frontmatter: In the Plugin Settings tab, you can now set new options that allow linking one frontmatter to another. This is particularly useful if you need to rewrite long frontmatter options, for example, when you have multiple repositories with different settings. By default, it uses the key Set and needs to be used as follows: Set: [[file]]. The set will be overridden if any keys exist in the “source” file.
• Bug Fixes
  • Ensure consistent behavior across various commands for frontmatter
  • Prevent empty and wrong yaml
  • Fix YAML and empty slug in Chinese
  • Allow multiple options for slugify
  • Fixed duplicate yaml when using regexReplace
  • Fixed erased token when migrating settings
• Refactor
  • Optimize frontmatter to allow nested key with dot. Now, you can use dot keys for nested keys, for example: links.convert is now supported.
  • Editing frontmatter with the inclusion of tags and adding the title key for folder notes is now handled using the frontmatter object instead of the text object. This means that files won’t break anymore for the ‘without sharing key’ workflows if a file doesn’t have frontmatter.
• Chores
  • Allow translation with Crowdin

Latex OCR v0.7.1 by Lucas Van Mol

This is the first update after being added as an official community plugin, prettifying error notices.

Soundscapes v1.1.0 by Andrew McGivery

This release brings 2 new soundscapes contributed by the community AND a whole new feature: Custom Soundscapes.
A custom soundscape is a playlist of youtube links that you can customize to create your own ambiance. These are created within the settings screen. You can create as many custom soundscapes as you want and each custom soundscape can have as many tracks as you want.

Various Complements v9.2.0 by Tadashi-aikawa

Add a ”Treat an underscore as a part of a word” option

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.

spotify-obsidian v1.1.4 by darrennotfound

• Updated the logic to only do instant token refresh when back online
  • To prevent console clogging
• Fixes token update error
• Fix multiple instance of event handlers still lurking after disabling plugins
• Update manifest.json

Obsidian VLC Bridge by zuluwi

This plugin

• Starts VLC Player with the Web Interface active and opens video path written in Obsidian URI format at the specified time
• Pastes timestamped link or snapshot from existing video into note
• Allows you to control the player by sending request to the VLC Web Interface with commands

so you can take notes from the video without losing focus from the Obsidian Editor. You can also run Syncplay with the plugin arguments and collaborate with other people online to work on video notes.

Prism v3.4.4 by Damian Korcz

• Fix
  • Improved the visibility of the Text Selection background colour.
  • The Status Bar is now hidden if there are no elements displayed inside.
  • Added and tested Opacity Options for Graph Style Settings.
  • Re-ordered Italic and Bold colour Style Setting options.
  • Fixed the Blurred effects and ability to disable them when using Minimal and Border Color Scheme Styles.
  • Small spacing fixes for Mobile and Desktop.
• Removed
  • Removed File Explorer Left Margin Style Settings Option (Didn’t work anyway).
  • Removed deprecated theme format - obsidian. Css (Goodbye Obsidian pre 1.0 release.
• Behind the Scenes
  • Updated the Theme and Snippet build script to use Node.js 20 and pnpm 8.

PDF++ v0.31.2 by RyotaUshio

The updates include:

• Add, edit & delete highlights in PDF files directly
  • PDF++ has supported backlink highlights, which does not modify the PDF itself. Now you can also add text highlights directly into PDF files ** within Obsidian. You can edit & delete them, too.
  • It means that you can highlight text without linking to it and that the added highlights are visible even outside Obsidian.
  • (This is completely optional; PDF++ will not modify PDF files unless you explicitly allow it.)
• Tab history
  • By default, tab history is recorded only when you open a link to a different PDF file.
  • PDF++ offers an option to record history even
    • when clicking a markdown link to the same PDF file as the current one
    • and when clicking an internal link embedded in a PDF.
  • It will enable you to go back and forth the history by clicking the left/right arrow buttons even within a single PDF file.
• PDF internal links enhancements
  • You can hover+cmd/ctrl over an internal link in a PDF to show a popover preview of the link destination. This is useful in a table of contents or bibliography for example.
  • You can copy a PDF internal link as an Obsidian link [[...]] from the right-click menu.
  • The ”Copy link to current page view” command: Running this command while viewing a PDF file will copy a link, clicking which will open the PDF file at the current scroll position and zoom level.
  • After copying a link by the above actions, you can “paste” it to a selection in PDF to create a PDF internal link. To do this, right-click the selection and click “Paste copied link to selection”.
• Integration with external apps
  • The ”Sync an external PDF viewer app with Obsidian” option: When you focus on a PDF file in Obsidian, the OS-defined default PDF viewer application will also focus on the same file.
• Auto-paste
  • Now PDF++ has a new command named “Copy & auto-paste link to selection or annotation command”.
  • In addition to copying a link to a text selection or an annotation, this command automatically pastes the copied link at the end of the note that you last pasted a link into. It will definitely speed up your workflow.
• Custom context menu
  • You can replace the Obsidian-default right-click menu with PDF++‘s custom menu, which offers much more options than the default one!

Quiz Generator v1.1.0 by ECuiDev

• New Features
  • Quiz Revisiting: Easily re-open saved questions in the interactive UI. You can also write your own questions and open them in the UI if you don’t want to use the generator
  • Multi-language Support: Quiz Generator now works with 17 new languages
  • LaTeX Generation: Generate and render LaTeX in your quizzes
• Enhancements
  • Randomize Question Order: Added option to randomize question order when opening quizzes in the UI
  • Increased Generation Limits: Increased the number of questions that can be generated per API call from 30 to 60
  • No More Duplicates: Users can no longer add duplicate notes and folders

Appearance

Cardstock Theme v2.0.4 by cassidoo

This is a minor update that improves callouts in dark mode!

Improved Potato Theme by Dominik Meurer

The author has removed some features from the original theme that he does not use and does not want to use, and added some useful and wanted items. This theme supports the Style Settings configuration.

• Configuration options
  • toggle fancy Code Block (copy of Things)
  • toggle fancy Mermaid
  • for each Header size (1-6):
    • Font Size
    • Font Color
    • Wether its underlined or not
  • Divider color
  • Base color (light and dark theme)
  • line number color
  • configurable line marker (toggle, line number color)

Neovim Theme by slavamak

This is a basic Obsidian theme, only with modified colors to match the default Neovim color scheme.

Other News

List Modified is asking users for input

Opinions on potential new OLM block syntax

Francis Kafieh, author of the community plugin List Modified, is asking users for input on whether to make a breaking syntax change. There may be one downside to this change, but overall, he feels it will benefit the plugin.

Meta Menu is looking for beta testers for 0.8.0-beta-1

If you want to test: copy the main.js/styles.css/manifest.json from the beta release page in the .obsidian/plugins/metadatamenu folder of your vault

https://github.com/mdelobelle/metadatamenu/releases/tag/0.8.0-beta-1

New features:

• Bulk edit fields values from a tableview or a mdm codeblock
• Custom display for object, objectlist and objectlistitem fields in Fields Modal