Obsidian Weekly 2024-05-05:Interactivity and data filtering — A boon for task management!
Obsidian Weekly 2024-05-05:Interactivity and data filtering — A boon for task management!
AbstractStatistical time: 2024-04-28 21:00 ~ 2024-05-05 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
zettelkasten navigation By terrychenzw
This plugin provides 2 customViews for navigating a zettelkasten using Luhmann-style IDs and key word indexes.
Checkbox Sounds By yasd251
Adds a nice completion sound to checkboxes when ticked off
TinyChart By Alin Coop
Generate simple ASCII charts.
ruby.wasm By geeknees
Run ruby code in your notes using WebAssembly.
Text2Audio By Haifeng Lu
Convert text to speech.
Before you start using this plug-in, you need to apply for Microsoft’s text-to-speech service.
Local LLM Helper By Mani Mohan
This plugin integrates a local Large Language Model (LLM) service with Obsidian for summarizing and transforming text.
- Features
- Summarize selected text in your Markdown notes.
- Rephrase to make selected text sound professional
- Generate text using selected text as prompt
- Access various LLM functionalities through a ribbon icon.
AI Chat By arenasys
Chat with AI about your notes.
Supported APIs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, OpenRouter, TogetherAI.
Azure DevOps Linker By Steven Zilberberg
Quickly format an Azure DevOps issue tag as a link to you Azure DevOps instance.
Draft Indicator By Brian Boucheron
Updates the file explorer to show a wee ✎ pencil icon next to any note with
draft: true
in its frontmatter. It also italicizes the note name.
Day One Importer By Marc Donald
Easily convert your Day One journals into Obsidian markdown.
Updates
Various Complements v10.0.0 By tadashi-aikawa
- Shiny New Things
- Fallback linkify
- The Fallback linkify feature relaxes Match strategy or suggests creating a new ‘Internal link’ when no appropriate candidates, particularly for ‘Internal links’, are found.
- New things
- Add ‘Exclude word patterns for indexing’ settings for ‘Current file complement’ and ‘Current vault complement’
- Breaking changes
- Main
- Clear the ‘Insert space after completion’ setting and change the default value to
false
- Appearance
- Change the default settings for ‘Show Match Strategy’, ‘Show Complement Automatically’, and ‘Show Indexing Status’ to
false
- Front matter complement
- Change the default setting of ‘Enable Front Matter Complement’ to
false
Another Quick Switcher v11.4.0 By tadashi-aikawa
- New things
- Add ‘Display the alias as the title’ option
- Breaking changes
- Rename the ‘Show aliases on top’ option to ‘Display alias as title on keyword match’
Tasks v7.1.0 By Martin Schenck and Clare Macrae
Edit Task modal usability improved
- Add access keys for Created, Done and Cancelled
- Improve Edit Task modal’s use of space
Linter v1.24.0 By Victor Tao
This release includes some feature changes as well as some bug fixes. This change brings the fix for folds not being retained on lint from beta to everyone. There was also an update made to the Chinese translation of the settings and UI text to make it more up to date with some of the changes that have happened since it was last updated.
- Features
- Users can now specify the key to use to help keep track of previous file titles for
YAML Title Alias
- Users can now specify which line ending they would like to use between two spaces,
\
, and and line break html/xml- Users can now customize what is considered to be English punctuation and symbols (except for
_
) for adding spaces around CJK and English characters- Bugs
- Fixes
Blockquote Style
removing spaces from codeblocks- Fixes custom commands trying to run when only blank custom commands are presen
- Fixed ``` being included in what the Linter considered to be tags
For more information on what has been fixed and what has changed take a look at the release notes and the released column of the project board
Pending
CautionNotice: 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.
Vault Explorer v0.5.4 By Trey Wallis
- Feature
- Add property filter options for all Obsidian property types
- NOTE: This will clear all of the property filter groups to support the new format
- Update property filter app UI to be more accessible
- Fix
- Enable property filter group on add if first group
- Reduce border thickness between property filter name input and property filters
- Increase property filter value size to 125px
- Make property filter condition names lowercase
- Use “and” between multiple property filters
- fix settings being erased on Obsidian reload
Produced by PKMer
InfoPKMer (PKMer.cn, PKMer.net) 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.
Outliner View
This plugin aims to integrate existing plugins that enhance unordered list functionality and add more specific features, including:
- Global filtering allows you to filter globally and start editing directly in the filtered view without jumping back and forth.
- A menu button at each bullet line for quick actions.
- Task filtering to hide all completed tasks.
- A task group component that uses Dataview to index all tasks tagged with
#now
, allowing direct editing of these tasks.
Notice: You need to install
Obsidian Zoom
,Obsidian Outliner
and alsoObsidian Dataview
plugins to use this plugin better.
Thino v2.4.36 has been released!
- Feat
- support thino editor button
- Fix
- tag fetch issue
Appearance
Spectrum Blue Theme By ryanjrman
Based on the Spectrum and Obsidianotion themes but with a bit more of a blue color pallete.
Sanctum reborn Theme By Anto Keinänen
Sanctum’s a minimalist theme for creating a serene space of retreat, for thought and uninterrupted work.
W95 Theme By phchnag
A theme inspired by an OS released in 1995 by a company in Redmond, Washington.