2024-02-25：Obsidian Weekly

2024-02-25：Why does your next audio-video player have to be a player?

Abstract

Statistical time: 2024-02-17 17:00 ~ 2024-02-24 00:00
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.

Official Updates

Obsidian v1.5.8 is now available on desktop and mobile

Highlights

• The new table editor is now finally available on mobile!
• Tables are now formatted as you type, meaning columns will be aligned when you switch to source mode.
• For developers, we’ve added some much needed improvements to the API. See the changelog for details.

Release notes

• Desktop: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2024-02-22-desktop-v1.5.8/
• Mobile: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2024-02-22-mobile-v1.5.8/

Plugin News

Produced by PKMer

Info

PKMer aims to create a powerful knowledge management community in the Eastern Hemisphere. “PKM” stands for Personal Knowledge Management, and the “er” suffix represents individuals. Anyone who is focused on and enjoys personal knowledge management work, and who seeks efficiency, can be included in this category. We hope the community can bring together more people like this.

Thino v2.2.4 has been realeased

New Features

• Added support for diary synchronization:
  • Now supports Obsidian Core Plugin - Diary plugin synchronization mode.
  • Supports setting corresponding synchronization file storage methods on different ends, recommending consistent settings across multiple ends.
  • For more details, refer to Thino Synchronization.

Adjustments

• All inline markers (indicating deletion, synchronization, and archiving) have been corrected to a single icon in WYSIWYG mode, which can display the original text when selected.
• Synchronization button added with a micro-animation to provide positive feedback when clicked.
• Multilingual support: All visible interface texts now have corresponding Chinese displays.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed synchronization issues on iOS (including iPhone, iPad) clients.
• Fixed the issue where the full-screen mode in the editor could not be collapsed on mobile devices.
• Fixed UI abnormalities at the bottom of the list in the editor on mobile devices.
• Fixed the issue where the pin status was not synchronized during previous synchronizations.
• Fixed the issue where when saving a whiteboard or single file, filenames with extensions such as .thino. Canvas or .thino. Md were not saved; for example, entering “abcd” as the filename did not append .thino. Canvas or .thino. Md.

Media Extended has been updated to version 3.0.2

• New:
  • Live Preview
  • Inline field
  • Multi-window support
  • Webpage player
    • Now, in addition to dedicated support for platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, and Bilibili, you can venture beyond and embed media from virtually any URL into your notes! (some URLs might not play ball)
  • …

You can download it from Github or the official community! Check out https://mx.pkmer.net/ for detailed information on v3+(still under construction…)

Community Plugins

New

Image Inline by Zackary W

Paste your image without attachment files. This plugin addresses that need by allowing you to convert images into base64 encoded strings and embed them directly within your notes.

Share My Plugin List by Benature

Share the enabled plugins in list/table format. Help you to share/recommend the plugins you are using to others.

GPG Encrypt by Luis Jaramillo

GPG encrypt inline text using hotkeys.  You can use online encryption or full document encryption.

Smart Second Brain by Leo310, nicobrauchtgit

Interact with your privacy focused assistant by leveraging Ollama or OpenAI and making your second brain even smarter.

GitHub Sync by Kevin Chin

Sync vault to personal GitHub for syncing across devices.

Kindle Highlights Importer by MovingMillennial

Imports the kindle highlights from the html file (you get from the kindle app) into a note. The Kindle HTML file will be converted into a Markdown file and saved to your specified location.

Tag Formatter by snsvrno

A configurable obsidian plugin that changes the way tags are displayed in preview mode. Currently supported:

• • Hide the ”#” on tags.
• Hide parents for all nested tags.
• Hide all parent tags.
• Hide portions of tags based on a pattern.
• Add CSS class for every shortened tag (per definitons).
• Add CSS class for every tag based on parents.
• Add CSS class for all tags.

Journalyst by Justin Arnold

This plugin allows for easy tracking of your daily journaling, and provides a simple way to create new entries for each day. You could for example have a journal for your personal life, and another for your work life, another for sleep tracking and so on.

Wypst by 0xpapercut

This plugin overrides regular math blocks ($<...>$ and $$<...>$$), so that they’re rendered as Typst math.

TV tracker by Shreshth Mehra

A simple Movie and TV show library to keep track of favourite movies and shows. Each Movie and TV show is saved as a markdown file in a folder of your choice (Specified in the settings). Each file has YAML content which is used to Display, filter and sort content. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Autogen by Aidan Tilgner

In place autogeneration of content based on prompts within notes using OpenAI’s models.

Broken Links by ipshing

Find broken links in your repository, those not connected to any notes. Supports multiple views, with folder view mimicking a file browser layout, allowing you to locate broken links in an organized list and display a count of broken links.

Image Collector by tdaykin

Use a command to collect all images from current note and saves them to a new folder, rather than having to either find all of the images after you have made your note or beforehand create folders specific to each project to store images.

Set View Mode per Note by Alex Davies

Use YAML frontmatter to specify a view mode per note.

WordWise by ckt1031

Writing companion for AI content generation. This plugin aims to simplify your workflow, boost productivity, and provide a seamless user experience by integrating AI-powered prompts, integrated tools and commands.

Git Integration by noradroid

Easily backup vault on a remote repository.

This plugin works on Windows 10+ and requires Git to be installed in the local system.

GitHub Link by Nathonius

Brand new plugin for devs who use github issues and pull requests regularly. It pulls info from GitHub’s APIs for github links and supports rendering a dynamic table of issues and pull requests.

Simple File Push by Kim Hudaya

Push Markdown file to API endpoint.

Paste transform by Timofey Koolin

Modify text from the clipboard by regexp rules..

Updates

Metadata Menu v0.8.3 by mdelobelle

• New features
  • Easy bulk edit fields (properties) in multiple notes at once from tableviews and mdm code blocks
  • Customize the display of Object, ObjectList and ObjectListItems (in dataview tables and fields modal)
• Some fix
  • Manage parenthesis in the name of fields (frontmatter only)
  • Fix: Space in fileclass name breaks fields modal
  • Fix: Boolean field value emptied when changing from true to false
  • Prevent migrations from clearing fields settings in fileclasses
• Doc & labels small improvements

Beautitab v1.4.1 by Andrew McGivery

• Settings screen redesign to allow for more organization and more features in the future
• Added support for 12-hour or 24-hour clock
• Added ability to use {{greeting}} placeholder in greeting text to add text based on the time of the day (e.g. good morning)
• Added ability to show 5 bookmarks, either from all bookmarks or from a specific group
• Adds custom quotes. In settings, you can configure the plugin to use the built in quotes, your custom quotes, or a mix of both.
• Bug: Obsidian’s internal bookmarks plugin was holding onto references to deleted files causing Beautitab to crash when trying to create links to those bookmarks. Added a safety check that should fix this issue.

Soundscapes v1.2.0 by Andrew McGivery

• My Music - Local Music Library
  • The “My Music” soundscape allows you to have a full music player experience right within Obsidian using your local MP3 music files. Upon selecting your local music folder, the plugin will index your music and occasionally re-index it in the background.
  • My Music supports playing with the mini-player in the status bar as well as a new dedicated My Music view with a new icon on the Ribbon sidebar once the “My Music” soundscape is selected. You can close this view and the music will continue playing.
  • Within the My Music view, you can play, pause, next, previous, seek, shuffle, and search.
• Other Changes
  • Add Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines ambience by @ThomasEricB

Various Complements v9.3.0 by various-complements

Shiny New Things: Select with custom alias pop-up command

This command inserts the selected suggestion along with a custom alias. The alias can be entered in a dialog that appears after the command is executed.

This feature is only available with Internal link complement.

Webpage HTML Export v1.8.0 by Nathan George

• Features
  • Full text search!
  • Resizable sidebars!
  • File and folder icons (Iconize plugin and MAKE.md support)
  • Custom file titles (for example to display index.html as “Home”)
  • Custom head content
  • Choose a custom favicon
  • Lists are now foldable
  • Added RSS support / generation
  • Social link preview support
• Changes
  • Sidebar redesign!
  • “Select All” in the file picker
  • Improved incremental export.
  • New settings organization
  • Allow using ~/Folder notation is file paths (even on windows)
  • Lots of tiny quality of life improvements that would take pages to list.
  • Added a new markdown rendering API, with the eventual goal of allowing the plugin to be used by other plugins
  • Exported html now scores above 90 across all lighthouse metrics!
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed self contained exports being extremely slow and large
  • Fixed weird positioning of heading collapse icons
  • Fixed 92 GitHub issues!! If you’d like to see a full list look at the recently closed issues.

Code Styler Version v1.1.7 by Mayuran Visakan

• Added
  • Reference codeblocks for referencing local and external files
    • Markdown links, local links and html links
    • Syntax Highlighting
  • YAML frontmatter Syntax Highlighting in source mode
• Changed
  • URLs can now be linked in codeblock title references

Wikipedia Search v2.4.1 by StrangeGirlMurph

Fixes a bug where a template still uses the specified template file without creating a note.
Improves the auto-cleanup feature to also parse the LaTeX of a Wikipedia articles intro.

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.

View Count by Trey Wallis

This plugin will track the view count for each file in your vault and and add a view-count property on your notes.

Command Block List by RyotaUshio

Hide unwanted commands from the command palette.
Just go to the plugin settings, click the ”+” button, and add the commands that you don’t want to show up.

Link Keeper by RyotaUshio

Auto-update links even when renaming or moving files outside of Obsidian.

Better Daily Notes by showaykerker

• Main features
  • Instantly generate daily notes and folders, organizing them neatly by year and month with a single click. Plus, customize the daily note format to suit your needs.
  • Tailor your experience by defining a specific window of hours after midnight to count as the previous day—ideal for those burning the midnight oil!
  • Say goodbye to image clutter! Better Daily Notes automatically renames and stores images you add to your daily notes in a dedicated folder within each month’s directory. And if you want more control, customize image display sizes and compress files to your liking (optional).