Obsidian Weekly 2024-04-28：Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and stay true to your essence! Mental simple repetitive labor is still just simple repetitive labor!

Obsidian Weekly 2024-04-28：Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and stay true to your essence! Mental simple repetitive labor is still just simple repetitive labor!

Abstract

Statistical time: 2024-04-22 21:00 ~ 2024-04-28 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

Tab Navigator By o02c

TabNavigator is a simple tab switcher for Obsidian.

• Quick Tab Navigation: Easily switch between your open tabs using keyboard shortcuts or the switcher interface.(tab-navigator
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• Delete Duplicate Tabs: Delete duplicate tabs from the switcher interface (or command) to manage your workspace efficiently. (tab-navigator
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• Display Tab List: When switching tabs with ctrl+tab (or ctrl+shift+tab), holding down ctrl will display a list of tabs. This feature can be enabled or disabled in the options (default: off)

LinkMagic By AndyReifman

Automatically adds links to defined regex.

Bookmarks Caller By namikaze-40p

Easily open bookmarks without leaving the keyboard home position.

Custom new file name By homu-konamilk

Enables the creation of new notes with custom formatted names, including dynamic datetime stamps.

Generate Hash By zigahertz

A small plugin for generating a cryptographically strong pseudorandom hash value using crypto.randomBytes. Useful for generating unique IDs.

Simple Citations By masaki39

This is an Obsidian plugin compatible with the Citations plugin. It enables the importation of literature notes from Zotero. The main feature of this plugin is its simple usage; it requires minimal setup time and allows you to add or update literature notes in one go.

Updates

Multiple Notes Outline v0.6.2 By iiz

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where views would not display under certain conditions.
• Changes
  • Modified the heading level display settings from individually toggling each level on or off to specifying the maximum level to display.
• Minor Improvements
  • Added the option to select numbered “H” icons for headings.

Projects v1.17.3 By Marcus Olsson

• Table view
  • Freeze selected columns from horizontal scrolling
• Board view
  • Add, rename, delete columns right away
  • Pin a column to persist it independent of notes
  • Collapse column to save space
  • Checkbox on card & customize card header
• Filtering
  • Introduce or conjunction
• Gallery view
  • Support more types of cover image link feed, detail
    There are also several improvements on pop-out window support and fixes on filesystem event handling.

Aloud TTS v0.3.0 By Adrian Lyjak

• Adds audio cache configuration options: You can now pick between a device local cache or vault based file cache, and configure the cache duration
• Improves usability on mobile

Note Toolbar v1.6.2 By Chris Gurney

Notice: Note Toolbar v1.6 has a fundamental change to how links are rendered (from a to span tags), which had the potential to break things like the Focus command and accessibility in general.

• Migration Notes
  • To enable the following use case, variables substituted into URIs are no longer encoded.
    • You can now put a fully-formed URL (i.e., one that includes the protocol) in a property and refer to it in a URI item using variables, and be able to have it open the website without issue.
• New Features
  • Set a note’s notetoolbar property to none to completely remove the toolbar from that note
• Improvements
  • Folder Mappings: Adds suggestions for * and / to the folder dropdown list
  • Style Settings plugin: You can now override font and icon sizes.
• Fixes
  • Fixes the issue with links crashing on Android (reading mode)
  • Fixes issue with toolbars not displaying correctly when notes are opened in a new window
  • Fixes to settings keyboard navigation (e.g., backspace = delete)

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Link Nodes in Canvas has been updated to v0.1.1

• Feat
  • A markdown link would be generated in from-node when link to other file-node
• Fix
  • Cannot generate edges correctly when there is no edge

Table Toolset v0.1.1 has been realeased

• Feat
  • Allows you render multi-line text in Table cell; (Use shift+enter to create new-line)
  • Support toggle checkbox
  • Support both live-preview mode and also reading mode
  • Support basic calculation
  • Support special file cssclass: columns-table, which make table into columns card
• Fix
  • Fix cannot paste into cell issue

Surfing v0.9.10 has been realeased

• Fix patching page preview causing core plugins to be cleared
• Feat/inline url preview

Appearance

CyberGlow v1.3.2 By ArtexJay

• Fixed padding with the active line highlight, where it would overshoot the selected area
• Added Themed buttons for the New Row/Column buttons
• New Button design that look less bulky
• Moved the mini header sign to the gutterline for better readability

Aura v2.3.1 By ashwinjadhav818

• New
  • Preview Images in the Readme
• Fixes
  • Card layout sidedock buttom margin
  • Origin colorscheme bugs
  • Colorful frame opacity slider
  • Modifier hover color
  • Made action icons in left ribbion cards
  • Workspace background preset image imports

Recommended Knowledge on PKM

Obsidian Plugin: Longform – How to Use Obsidian to Complete Your Own Novel Writing

The Obsidian plugin “Longform” is designed specifically for writers and writing teams. It helps users create and manage large literary projects such as books, novels, and essays. It can break down long texts into smaller components like chapters, paragraphs, and scenes, and provides basic editing and organizational tools.
The author details his “best practices” workflow for drafting using Markdown files in this article, which is highly valuable for long-form creators.

Obsidian Plugin: Making Anki Cards with Obsidian

Anki is a globally renowned memory aid tool. This article provides a step-by-step guide, with examples, on how to utilize the Export to Anki plugin to bridge Obsidian and Anki, seamlessly integrating note-taking and memorization for efficient learning.