Obsidian Weekly 2024-11-16：Obsidian v1.7.6 and the official Web Clipper plugin are now officially released

Obsidian Weekly 2024-11-16：Obsidian v1.7.6 and the official Web Clipper plugin are now officially released

Abstract

Statistical time: 2024-11-09 21:00 ~ 2024-11-16 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.

Official News

Obsidian v1.7.6 Public has been released!

Desktop

No longer broken

• Fixed Canvas performance issue where media files were remounted during panning.
• Fixed issue with property editor where property names would overlap with the property values.
• Clicking on a link in page preview will no longer switch the preview to edit mode.
• Fixed regression where Obsidian URI left the target window minimized.
• Fixed issue with parser using too much memory to parse larger Markdown files. This could cause Obsidian to crash when opening very large Markdown files.
• Fixed File Explorer not highlighting the active file on initial load.

Mobile

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.7.6.

No longer broken

• Fixed position of fold indicators in reading mode.
• Fixed Markdown viewport menu showing when dragging the cursor.
• Fixed iOS bug where Outline view didn’t update immediately after switching files.

Obsidian Web Clipper Official Plugin Released! Latest Version: v0.9.7

• Obsidian Web Clipper is now available on Chrome Web Store (compatible with Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Orion, and other Chromium-based browsers), Firefox Add-Ons, and Safari Extensions. Click the links above or search directly to install.
• Visit the official introduction to learn about its features.
• Refer to the official help documentation for detailed tutorials.

This Week’s Updates (v0.9.5-v0.9.7)

New

• Add support for @graph format for schema.org data
• Add support for clipping local files
• Add options to save file, share, and copy from the extension popup. Options differ based on OS and browser.
• Add localization in French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese. More translations can be submitted via the GitHub repo.

Improved

• Add clipboard permissions for Linux
• Fix bugs in creating absolute URLs, improves resolving relative link structures
• Remove Obsidian-specific characters when sanitizing file names
• Improve display of highlighter menu on some websites.
• Fix an issue with block vs inline math.
• Fixed issue with highlighting the first sentence of a paragraph
• Changed highlighter mode shortcut on Firefox to reduce conflicts
• Added new locales for Farsi and Russiane
• Removed need downloads permission
• Fixed overlapping buttons in Safari on macOS in extension popup
• Fixed issue with safe_name filter
• Added Help link in Settings

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

Automatic Renumbering By Omri Levi

Updates numbered lists automatically to keep them in sequential order. Features live updates, smart pasting, and manual control options.

IOC Lens By Aaron Gabbert

Extracts and displays security-relevant indicators such as IP addresses, domains, and file hashes to enhance your cyber security note-taking process.

Typezen By Ilgam Gabdullin

The plugin lets you remove all distractions as you type

Daily Random Note By Alexandre Silva

Automatically open daily random notes based on your preferences.> Automatically open daily random notes based on your preferences.

Perplexity Converter By Henrik Seidel

Fix references and their hyperlinks in text pasted from Perplexity.

Check and Delete By Danitiate

Delete a completed list item with the press of a button. This plugin is perfect for those who enjoy using checklists but find themselves spending too much time manually deleting items after they’re done — especially on mobile.

Markdown Timeline By Jiaheng Zhang

Convert markdown into timeline visualization.
Chronological sorting of events

Brain Dump Mode By yesjinu

Done is better than perfect. Complete your first-messy-draft before you make it perfect. Your delete key will be DISABLED and all you can do is JUST BURN YOUR KEYBOARDS> Done is better than perfect. Complete your first-messy-draft before you make it perfect. Your delete key will be DISABLED and all you can do is JUST BURN YOUR KEYBOARDS

Activity Heatmap By Zak Hijaouy

Tracks and visualizes app activity, similar to GitHub’s contribution chart.

Textgrams By Akop Kesheshyan

Create and store ASCII graphics in your notes. It can be used to to define diagrams, flowcharts, complex tables, Gantt charts and more in technical documentation, that will be rendered as a nice SVG graphics in the preview mode.

Edge TTS By Travis

Read notes aloud using Microsoft Edge Read Aloud API (free, high quality text-to-speech).

Daily notes calendar By bartkessels

The main focus of the Daily note calendar plugin is to provide a calendar view to access or create your own daily, or weekly notes. This allows you to quickly navigate to your notes without having to search for them in the file-tree.
Right now the following types of periodic notes are supported

• Daily notes
  • By clicking on a specific date
• Weekly notes
  • By clicking on the week number
• Monthly notes
  • By clicking on the month name
• Quarterly notes
  • By clicking on the quarter name in the upper-left corner
• Yearly notes
  • By clicking on the year number

The plugin also allows you to customize the format of your daily and weekly notes using the date formatting rules of date-fns.

Featured Image By Johan Sanneblad

Featured Image automatically sets a featured image property in your notes based on the first image, YouTube link, or Auto Card Link image found in your document. This allows you to create rich note galleries using Folder Notes and Dataview.

Masking Type By Telehakke

Mask bold, italic, and highlight that allows it to be used like a memorization sheet.

Todos sort By Jiri Sifalda

Sorting your TODOs (checkboxes) in current note by completion status

NeuroVox By Synaptic Labs

Enhances your note-taking with voice transcription and AI capabilities.> Enhances your note-taking with voice transcription and AI capabilities.

Superstition By Jeffry

Manage routines with traditional calendar concept of 宜/忌.
How it works:

1. Define your activities in the settings
2. Set how often these activities are “permitted” (e.g., once every 7 days)
3. Check daily what’s “宜” (recommended) and “忌” (forbidden) for you

Workout Tracker By wanabeunique

Log workouts, track progress, and view exercise statistic.

SVG Style Editor By ARGOSTA

Easily modify the style properties of SVG images directly within the editor. With this plugin, you can customize properties like color, border, opacity, and more. Supported drawable tags include: path, line, rect, circle, ellipse, and polygon.

Text Finder By hafuhafu

Provides a search bar in edit mode that supports search, replace, regular expressions, and case sensitivity, similar to VSCode.

Hexo Toolkit By Xiangru

Helps users to manage their Hexo posts, including converting notes to Hexo-compatible Markdown format.

Tree Search By catacgc

Help navigate a hierarchy of notes and connections that are built as you type. Supercharged search across backlinks and relations in your notes.

Updates

Easy Typing v5.5.6 By yaozhuwa

• Added enhanced functionality for Ctrl/Cmd+A: the first press selects the current line, the second press selects the current text block, and the third press selects the entire text
  • (Currently only effective in plain text blocks, excluding quotes and lists)
  • Need to open the option in the Experimental Features settings to take effect

Tokei v0.8.0 By HiroMike

Significantly reduced CPU drain.

List Modified v3.2.1 By Francis Kafieh

• fixed tag exclusions not working
• potential fix for syncthing mobile issue

Vertical Tabs v0.11.1 By oxdc

What’s New: Enjoy performance improvements and bug fixes for a smoother, more reliable experience!

Pixel Banner v2.10.1 By Justin Parker

• Added
  • Option to Hide Pixel Banner property fields from displaying when in Reading Mode
  • Option to Hide the Property Section from displaying in Reading Mode if the only fields are Pixel Banner fields
  • Option to Hide Pixel Banner property fields from displaying when in Reading Mode
  • Option to Hide the Property Section from displaying in Reading Mode if the only fields are Pixel Banner fields
  • Color Picker for Inline Titles
    • Only applied if Inline Titles are enabled in Obsidian Settings:
      • Appearance > Show inline title
    • Can be defined on the General, Custom Field Names, and Folder Images tabs
  • Color Picker Reset button for Folder Images tab (only applies if Inline Titles are enabled in Obsidian Settings)
• Fixed
  • Fixed overaggressive banner API refresh when editor content changed
  • Fixed Pexels API key test
  • Display the correct color in the Color Picker for Inline Titles when the control is reset

Appearance

Simply Colorful v0.4.0 By Lorenzo Pegorari

• Completely new outline section, which now recalls the appearance of the note’s headings (with hover and is-active animations)
  • Notice that at the moment it is impossible to know at which type of heading a tree item in the note outline section is referring to, so there is no way to make the tree item the same color as the heading that it pointing.
• Better colors for a more distinguishable text (under the WCAG Contrast guideline)
• Improved headings’ background colors while in Live Preview mode
• Changed headings’ size, making them a bit smaller
• Modified font weight of backlinks
• Better transparency for headings’ background
• Better tags’ background

Orange Theme By Alex F

A custom theme designed with an orange and dark-themed aesthetic for optimal readability and minimalistic UI elements. It features subtle design changes to enhance the user experience while maintaining the core functionalities of the Obsidian app.