Obsidian Weekly 2024-06-30：v1.6.5 is released! More fun with databases and focus

Abstract

Statistical time: 2024-06-23 21:00 ~ 2024-06-30 23:00
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 News

Obsidian v1.6.5 public is now available on desktop and mobile!

Desktop

Improvements

The installer has been updated to use Electron v30.1.2. To upgrade, install visit the Obsidian download page and reinstall Obsidian.
Added a new advanced section at the bottom of “File and links” settings page. This section includes a button for manually rebuilding the metadata cache if the cache gets corrupted or out of sync with the filesystem.

No longer broken

Fixed date and time input being cut off.
Fixed extra border between vertical splits in the sidebar.
Fixed bug where Graph view could constantly save and reload.

Mobile

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.6.5.
Removed “Open in new window” context menu items from bookmarks.
Removed “Open to the right” context menu item from bookmarks on smaller devices.

The original text can be found at Obsidian 1.6.5 Desktop (Public) and Obsidian 1.6.5 Mobile (Public)

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

Page Scroll By triski

Page Up|Down|Top|Bottom. The original intention is to use the ink screen device, because there will be residual shadows because of normal pages.

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Quran Helper By Ammar Alakkad

Find and insert any Quran Ayah (verse) in your notes.

Syrinscape Online Player By Stephen Cooper

Control Syrinscape Online Player from inside of notes.

Smart Memos By Evan Moscoso

Create personalized and intelligent analysis, brainstorms, summaries, and more for audio recordings that can be imported or spoken directly into a note.

RPG Stat Tracker By Cunjur

This plugin is designed to gameify the process of writing and organizing notes in Obsidian. It tracks time spent with your vault open and rewards you with experience points. You gain extra experience points for the amount of notes you have in your vault. Your experience points are tracked directly and under a level system.

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Daily Note Structure By db-developer

Can be used to create a folder structure which finally holds the actual daily note.
The purpose of this plugin is, to automate the daily creation of multiple folders and files. If your ‘daily’ notes simply are a number of markdown files within a default folder, you will NOT need this plugin.
Works best when used in conjunction with the Templater and Folder notes plugins.

doing By rooyca

Help you keep track of what task you were doing. This plugin is perfect for users who often find themselves switching contexts and need a quick reminder of their current task.

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Another Sticky Headings By Zhou Hua

Enhance your writing and reading experience by keeping the current content’s heading levels displayed, providing better orientation and progress tracking.
By clicking on the displayed headings, you can quickly scroll to the corresponding section in your note.
Editor’s Note: Compared to another similar plugin, Sticky Headings, this plugin displays a more complete heading tree with clickable jump functionality, and supports reading mode as well.

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Asciidoc Reader By voidgrown

Enables the rendering of AsciiDoc.

Spoilers By Jacobtread

Create hidable blocks of content.

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SQLSeal By hypersphere

SQLSeal allows to transform your CSV files located in your vault into fully-fledged SQL database. You can use SQL statements to query this data however you like.

Updates

Easy Typing v5.4.1 By Yaozhuwa

Small bug fixes and optimizations for strict line breaks when pressing Enter

Optimize the feature where pressing Enter in strict line break mode generates two line breaks

When the cursor is at the beginning of a line and the previous line is not empty, pressing Enter will not do anything.

If the next line is not blank, no action will be taken.

Fix the issue where getDefaultIndentChar returns incorrect results under default Ob settings.

Iconize v2.14.1 By Florian Woelki

Fix: issue with non existing native Lucide icons

Query all the things v1.0.2 · sytone/obsidian-queryallthethings · GitHub By Sytone

Fix

Add note content to the content fiels in the obsidian_notes table.

Fix updating/inserting of tasks and list when a note changes. Was only updating them and not adding new list items or tasks.

Documentation

Added pages for the obsidian_notes, obsidian_tasks and obsidian_lists tables. These will replace obsidian_markdown_notes, obsidian_markdown_tasks and obsidian_markdown_lists in the long term.

View Count v2.4.1 By DecafDev

Features

add duration filter to sidebar view

add list filter to sidebar view

add 3-days option to getTrendingWeight function

add today option to getTrendingWeight function

add Today option to sidebar view

add 3 days option to sidebar view

set default duration to 3 days

save sidebar view selections into settings

Fix

remove view count when an unsupported view is opened

fix 7-days and 14-days showing the same trending count as month

fix view count items not appearing on mount (Regression 2.3.0)

fix view count items not updating (Regression 2.3.0)

Refactor

update log message formats

rename Most viewed to Views

rename Trending to Trends

rename List size to Item count

rename Duration to Time period

replace sigma icon with hash icon

Canvas2Document v1.2.1 By slnsys

Better filenames and no cluttering of folders: overwriting of files with same name with confirmation

Better filemanagement in writing temp files

Added “Step…” prefixes to commands

Tasks v7.6.0 By Martin Schenck and Clare Macrae

Featurea

Increase Default Max Auto Suggestion Number to 20

New setting to recognise dates format in file names

Fixes

Restore the original order in Auto Suggestions menu

Tasks Auto-Suggest works again in the Kanban plugin

recurrence with ‘when done’ could give wrong ‘done’ date

Vault Explorer v1.18.0 By DecafDev

Feature

Support all file types, not just markdown files

Add sticky groups. This feature reverts the group clicking behavior to only allow one group at a time. To keep a group enabled even when others are clicked, you can mark it as “sticky” by using Cmd + Click (on macOS) or Ctrl + Click (on Windows/Linux).

Add clock updates settings

Add scroll buttons to group list

Add subtle padding between the item that is scrolled to and the scroll button

Add filter toggle settings

Add enable scroll buttons setting

Load file content on mount

Update content cache on file modify event

Add feed view

Add search by file content

Add view toggle settings

Remove width restrictions on List view

Remove width restrictions on Feed view

Display 250 characters in feed view

Add tags to List view

Include frontmatter content when filtering by search box

Fix

Only load content using vault.cachedRead for markdown files

Reduce log messages on vault startup

Fix scroll buttons sometimes not appearing

Fix error on filter group click

Fix broken favorite filter

Wrap pagination indicator on page shrink

Move custom filter and view selection over -4px to align with other content

Add pagination to feed view

Fix frontmatter sometimes appearing in feed card content

Don’t block plugin UI when verifying a license key on Obsidian start up

Allow offline access when using a license key

Make premium UI transition seamless if network is slow on Obsidian startup

Resolve title wrapping not working

Test

Add tests for migrations

Remotely Save v0.5.12 By fyears

Connect to Onedrive full root folder.

optimize smart conflict to avoid bug.

optimize smart conflict to avoid duplication files when content are the same.

optimize onedrive download.

optmize onedrive path

make it clearer in option selections

Note Definitions v0.17.1 By Dominic Let

Add support for mobile

Implement modal for previewing definitions on mobile

Add option to display source file title in definition popover

Fix issue where internal links do not work in definition popover

Fix popover positioning issue when Obsidian’s title bar is enabled (“Window frame style” not “hidden”)

Add Add definition context command to easily add definition context to your note

Mount definition popover in markdown view instead of the workspace

Fixes issues with some UI settings (such as displaying window frame or using plugins that extend full length status bar) causing definition popover to have the wrong offset

Headings in Explorer v1.0.3 By patrickchiang

Add Toggle File Explorer Headings command to quickly switch the plugin’s functionality.

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