Obsidian Weekly 2024-09-14：File list card view and daily automatic summarization

Obsidian Weekly 2024-09-14：File list card view and daily automatic summarization

Abstract

Statistical time: 2024-09-06 23:00 ~ 2024-09-14 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

Draw Steel Elements By Scott Tomaszewski (Xentis)

Components to support the Draw Steel TTRPG by MCDM.

Pug Templates By Nicholas Wilcox

This plugin lets you render Pug templates in your Obsidian vault.

simple-sketch By Yoh

Create minimalist sketches in a dedicated view, draw with a pencil, generate shapes, add text, save it to the vault or download it as an image.

Tailwind Snippet By Nicholas Wilcox

This plugin uses TailwindCSS as a PostCSS plugin to generate a CSS snippet in your Obsidian vault.

Vault to blog By barkstone2

Publish the vault to a GitHub Pages blog.

Quick Cards By Camus Qiu

This plugin is designed to showcase files within a directory in a card format. Here are its main functionalities:

• Card View Features
  • Files in the current directory are presented as convenient cards, each containing the note title, creation date, and a brief summary of the note.
• Opening Notes
• Click on any card to open the associated note.
• Creating New Notes
  • A new note can be created by clicking the Plus Button located at the bottom of card view.
• Automatic Directory Switching
  • As you open various files in the editing area, the plugin will automatically switch to the relevant directory to display the corresponding cards.

Daily Note Collector By Adar Butel

Automatically adds links to your daily note for all newly created files.

Updates

Vault Explorer v1.46.0 By DecafDev

• Feature
  • remove icon placeholder for grid card cover image
  • remove Obsidian status bar when view is open
  • move pagination indicator into a status bar when view is open
  • remove favorites filter
  • remove timestamp filter
  • move search filter and sort order button to right side
  • increase custom filter groups size
  • rename custom filter button to Configure
  • make search filter toggleable
  • add default values to url, image, and image-fit properties
  • add created date to sort filter
  • make folder input a searchable dropdown
  • make Vault Explorer view leaf pinnable
  • add clear button to SearchSelect
  • add delete option to context menu
  • add confirm delete setting
  • make feed view a non-premium feature
  • simplify table columns to just Name and Tags
• Fix
  • Remove leading zero on time when “Yesterday at” is displayed
  • Don’t replace existing leaf when the explorer view is first opened
  • remove extra right padding on IconButton
  • migrate to new default properties
  • handle text overflow of SearchableSelection component dropdown
  • hide broken image icon if image fails to load
  • clear social media cache on upgrade
  • fix some social media image url’s not being cached
  • add up and down arrow support to SearchSelect
  • save value when SearchSelect option is selected
  • add keyboard focus indicator to Configure button
  • open SearchSelect dropdown when focused and any key is pressed
  • close SearchSelect dropdown when tab is pressed
  • make SearchSelect dropdown appear below focus
  • allow SearchSelect dropdown to render above container
  • stop loss of focus on SearchSelect input when an option is clicked
  • make SearchSelect clear button always visible when a value is selected
  • reset SearchSelect input to selected value on dropdown close
  • resolve list Show tags setting not working
  • make ListItem render title in full width when Show tags is disabled
• Refactor
  • rename cover image fit to just Cover and Contain
  • rename socialMediaImageUrl to smiUrl in IndexDB cache
  • rename to SearchSelect
  • remove viewOrder array and add a order property to each view
• Chore
  • add debug statements to image cache
• Test
  • add more logs to social media cache

Quiz Generator v2.1.0 By Edward Cui

This update primarily adds support for several new LLM providers, improving accessibility for students with free models from Google and Cohere, and offering privacy-conscious users the option of using local LLMs with Ollama. What’s New?

• Expanded Model Support: Now you can generate questions using models from:
  • Google: Free to use with the largest context window, perfect for handling extensive notes.
  • Anthropic: Optimized for thoughtful and contextually aware responses.
  • Perplexity: Fine-tuned LLaMA models for robust question generation.
  • Mistral: Lightweight models for fast, efficient generation.
  • Cohere: Free and excels at generating coherent, contextually accurate questions.
  • Ollama: Local LLMs for enhanced privacy and offline processing.
• Better Grading: Get your response to short and long answer questions evaluated using embedding models, providing more accurate and insightful feedback on your answers.
• Improved Note Integration: Links to the notes used for quiz generation can now be included as frontmatter when saving quizzes, making it easier to trace back your study materials.

Graph Banner v1.3.2 By ras0q

• In this release, the graph banner opens more smoothly!
• Graph Banner plugin no longer opens new window momentarily
• Improve graph open speed, No longer open a new window.
• Refactor/css
• Update a large number of dependencies
• Add a setting: Time to remove the graph leaf

Iconic v1.0.14 By Holo

• Bugfixes
  • Tabs: File tabs should no longer have duplicate items on their context menus
  • Properties: Properties with uppercase letters will no longer break the icon picker
• Visual fixes
  • Icon picker: Color tooltips now change in real time when you scroll through colors with a mouse or keyboard
  • Icon picker (on phones): The Remove and Emojis buttons are now on the same row at the bottom, and a Cancel button has been added on top to match the Edit Bookmark dialog
  • Icon picker (on tablets): The Emojis button now sticks to the right side (or the left side in RTL languages)

Tasks v7.10.0 By Clare Macrae and Ilyas Landikov(created by Martin Schenck)

• Features
  • Add date context menu in Reading mode and Tasks Query results
    • Right-click on any date value - in Reading mode and Tasks query results - to make some common edits, similar to the Postpone menu, but you control which field is edited.
    • Note: this feature is not yet documented, in order to allow the following bug-fix to be released.
• Fixes
  • Load cache when workspace is ready
    • This significantly speeds up Tasks start-up time, especially on mobile.

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Thino has updated to v2.4.55

• Fix
  • Thino’s type will not be changed when sync from web

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Black Theme By Simon Ostini (behem0th)

A simple black theme.