Obsidian Weekly 2024-07-07：Dataview Data Export and Quick Publishing to WeChat Official Accounts

Obsidian Weekly 2024-07-07：Dataview Data Export and Quick Publishing to WeChat Official Accounts

Abstract

Statistical time: 2024-06-30 21:00 ~ 2024-07-07 18:00
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

Refresh Preview By mnaoumov

Allows to refresh preview mode without reopening the note.

Sidebar Resizer By Jeet Sukumaran

This plugin allows users to programmatically adjust the widths of the left and right sidebars in Obsidian. Users can increase, decrease, toggle, and evenly distribute sidebar widths using commands. The widths can be specified in pixels (px) or percentages (%).

AI Chat as Markdown By Charl P. Botha

Lets GPT-4 Omni / Claude 3.5 talk directly into your Obsidian Markdown notes. It relies on nesting of headings, and thus you can have multiple conversations and even branching conversations in the same note.

Datepicker By Mostafa Mohamed

Use a date picker to modify and insert date/time anywhere in your markdown notes.

Entity Linker By Ankush-Chander

Link research terms to standard entities. This plugin has two commands:

1. Link selection to entity, which suggest entities using the selected text as search term.
2. Link active note to entity, which suggest entities using the active note’s title as search term.

Remove Newlines By Elias Jaffe

Remove newlines from text selections and also paste content from the clipboard without newlines. It also is capable of cleaning up multiple consecutive whitespaces and hyphenated word breaks.

Shrink pinned tabs By Nicolas Lœuillet

Shrinks pinned tabs to save screen space.

Are.na Manager By Javier Arce

Publish content from your vault to Are.na and the other way around.

Import Attachments+ By Andrea Alberti

A plugin designed to enhance the attachment management experience in Obsidian. It allows you to import, organize, and handle attachments (like images, documents, and other files) seamlessly within your vault.
Features include:

• Moving or copying files into the vault upon import.
• Embedding or linking attachments.
• Configurable folder structures for attachments.
• Customizable naming conventions for imported files.
• Management tools for attachment folders.

Checkbox styling helper By JaewonE

Helps you styling checkboxes in preview mode.

Vimium By Karsten Finderup Pedersen

Provides keyboard shortcuts for clicking buttons in Obsidian.

Todoist Indicator By kapej42

Shows whether Todoist links are available on Project files by adding a badge to project files if the linkt to Todoist is missing.

Edit in Neovim By Theseus

This plugin will pop open a new terminal and runs neovim inside it (You can turn this off in the settings) when Obsidian starts up. After that, every time you open a file inside of Obsidian, that same file will get opened as a new buffer (or focused if already open) inside of the listening neovim instance.

File Flex By Michael Baker

Enhance file and folder management by providing advanced undo capabilities. It allows users to revert changes to file and folder locations, as well as names, within a specified time window.

NSFW filter By catvatar

Add a sidebar button that toggles the visibility of NSFW marked files.

Dataview Publisher By UD

Output markdown from your Dataview queries and keep them up to date. You can also publish them.

e-Daiary By Thomas Campanholi

Creates directories and notes based on the day of the year.

Front Matter Timestamps By LighthouseDino

This plugin adds the created and modified timestamps in the front matter of your notes. The modified time is kept updated automatically. This helps keep track of when each file was last modified without relying on file attributes, which are prone to accidental changes (especially when syncing).

Multiplatform Highlights Importer By wwwkieran

This plugin pulls your highlights and annotations from various different reading sources into Obsidian. This plugin reconciles books based on ISBN or title, so if you read the same book on different devices this plugin will only create one note (per book) with all the highlights.

• Currently supported data sources:
  • Kobo
  • Apple Books (iBooks)

Guid Renamer By Taskscape LTD, Kacper Pabianiak

This plugin renames the currently selected file by providing it a unique file name based on a GUID style pattern. This ensures that your file names are unique and avoids conflicts.

Fast Text Color By Leon Holtmeier

Create beautifully colored and still interactive notes with a custom coloring syntax.

Dataview Serializer By Sébastien Dubois

Serialize Dataview queries to Markdown, and keep the Markdown representation up to date.

Xournal++ By Jon Jampen

Integration with Xournal++ for handwritten notes and annotations.

Note to MP By Sun Booshi

Perfectly replicate the style of notes in Obsidian to the WeChat Official Account editor, supporting code highlighting, code line number display, theme background color, and more. For the issue of not being able to include links in WeChat Official Account, it offers two display methods: directly showing the link address and displaying it as a footnote at the end of the article.

Wechat Public Platform By Blake Chan

Release the article from your vault to WeChat, Baidu Baijiahao, or another article release platform.

Updates

Note Definitions v0.18.1 By Dominic Let

Fix issue where new file created within definition folder is not automatically registered as definition file.

Iconize v2.14.2 By Florian Woelki

• Feat(ui): add custom ResetButtonComponent for a more native feeling
• Refactor: increase maximum font size to 64px
• Fix: issue with icons not having correct size in link

Excalidraw v2.2.8 By Zsolt Viczian

• Enhanced Memory Management: Significant improvements to optimize memory usage.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Support for multi-file drag and drop from the operating system.
  • Correct theming of animated GIFs as Embeddables.
  • Several other minor bug fixes.

Epub Importer v0.3.6 By aoout

• Fix
  • No longer parse navPoint whose source is an invalid path
  • Parsing no longer fails because the epub does not contain a .ncx…
  • No longer fails to read content when href is unique
  • Catching errors when creating notes

doing v1.0.2 By rooyca

• Fix: settings repeated
• Feat: new toggle button to choose if doing the first or the last appended task

Meta Bind v1.1.3 By Moritz Jung

• New Features
  • Added the option to specify custom regexp flags for the regexp replace in note button action
  • Other metadata fields can now be referenced in the update metadata button action via getMetadata(bindTarget)
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed being unable to interact with some input fields in live preview mode on android

Github Copilot v1.0.9 By Vasseur Pierre-Adrien

• What’s new since 1.0.6
  • New keybind to cycle between suggestions provided by copilot.
  • Can exclude folders and files from suggestion generation
  • Can save the nodePath to an external json file to support sync between devices
  • New loading state when copilot is generating suggestions
  • New keybind to enable/disable copilot suggestions
  • Update copilot core

Advanced Canvas v3.0.3 By Developer-Mike

• Changes
  • Fixed default node style got applied to non-text nodes
  • Fixed “Predefined Process” shape not displaying
  • Rewrote edge pathfinding method related scripts and helper scripts
  • Improved “Square” pathfinding method to support more alignments of nodes.
• Changes of 3.0.0
  • Rewrite of the node and edge styling system
    • Less cluttered node and edge popup menu
    • Ability to easily add custom styling attributes
  • Ability to set node and edge default styles
  • New edge arrow styles (for UML)
  • Option to rotate arrow in the direction of the edge if pathfinding method is “Direct”
  • Replaced some default icons with custom, better ones
  • Fixed A* live update setting not working

Produced by PKMer

Info

PKMer (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.

《Reverse 1999》Game Knowledge Base Launches Example Repository Market!

This repository is created using the local knowledge base software Obsidian, serving as an offline Wiki about the game Reverse 1999, developed by PKMer core member ProudBenzene.

The documents, images, and other content in this repository mainly originate from the game’s settings, collected and compiled by the author from various online wiki sites and the game itself to create this Wiki. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, this repository will be maintained alongside game updates.

Regarding the game, the repository aims to create an offline Wiki where all content and pages can be viewed without an internet connection, providing users with a sense of security knowing that their characters are stored on their own computers.

In terms of knowledge management, this repository utilizes a variety of Obsidian-related techniques, including numerous applications of plugins such as Templater, QuickAdd, Projects, Dataview, Thino, etc. It can serve as an introductory example repository for beginners learning Obsidian.