Obsidian Weekly 2024-12-01：Task Management Boom & The Long-Awaited Interactive Timeline!

Obsidian Weekly 2024-11-30：Task Management Boom & The Long-Awaited Interactive Timeline!

Abstract

Statistical time: 2024-11-23 21:00 ~ 2024-12-01 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 Web Clipper has been updated to v0.10.0

New

• Adds Interpreter feature to extract content using natural language, with the syntax {{"a summary of the page"}} (quotation marks are important). Requires being enabled and configured in the Web Clipper settings.
• New length filter returns a number of items or characters.
• New calc filter allows basic mathematical operations e.g. {{number|calc:"/2"}} — can be combined with length filter to count words, or estimate reading time, e.g. {{content|split:" "|length|calc:"/200"|round}} minutes.
• Added translations for Brazilian Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia, Korean, and Traditional Chinese.

Improved

• Fixed issue with fonts in Japanese.
• Fixed issue with {{publish}} variable sometimes returning multiple dates.
• Export all settings now decompresses templates so they are human readable. Import all settings compresses them again to maximize sync storage space.

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

Image Uploader For Note By Yunfi

An Obsidian plugin for uploading images in notes!
It uploads local images in a note to S3 (and S3 compatible services), replace the image link with the S3 link, and remove the images from the vault if they’re exclusively used within that note. (optional).

Visual Crossing Weather By willasm

Visual Crossing Weather API for Your Notes

Heatmap Tracker By Maksim Rubanau

Visualize your activity and track goals, progress, habits, tasks, exercise, finances, and more—all in a single, interactive heatmap!

Discord Timestamps By Erika Gozar

Displays discord timestamps in read mode as they would appear in Discord.

Todoist Context Bridge By wenlzhang

Bridges your Obsidian notes with Todoist tasks while preserving rich context, helping you highlight important tasks and maintain seamless workflows between the two platforms.

LLM workspace By Olivér Falvai

Use Large Language Models grounded in your notes.

Abbrlink By Q78KG

Automatically generate permanent short links for your markdown files.

• Features
  • Generate unique links for Markdown files
  • Support both automatic and manual generation modes
  • Configurable hash length (4-32 digits)
  • Hash collision detection and prevention
  • Optional random hash generation mode
  • Skip files with existing abbrlinks
  • Step-by-step task building for efficient batch processing

Mass Create By vellikhor

Create large quantities of notes easily at one time.

• Features
  • Mass File Creation: Create multiple files within a selected folder with ease.
  • Folder Creation: Add extra folders as part of the mass creation process.
  • Template Option: Use an existing file as a template for all new files, making it easy to replicate file structures and content.

Setlist.fm Sync By Nick Felker

Syncs your setlist.fm attended concerts.

Auto File Organizer By mofukuru

Automatically sort files into designated folders based on their extensions.

Folder Links By Stefan Rausch

Adds a feature to link to a folder.

• Add a / at the end of a regular internal link. If the folder exists it will be revealeled in navigation.

Simple Quiz By Ivan Kalmar

Easily create sets of flashcards for repetition.
Currently only flashcards with manual input are supported.

Post Webhook By MasterB1234

Send your Obsidian notes to any Webhook endpoint with YAML frontmatter support and attachment handling. Perfect for automating your note-taking workflow and integrating with external services.

Clear Todos By Joshua Gawenda

Adds a command to clear all completed todos in the current selection or the entire document if there is no selection.

Chronos Timeline By Claire Froelich

Render interactive timelines in your Obsidian notes from simple Markdown.> Render interactive timelines in your Obsidian notes from simple Markdown.

Friday By sunwei

Transform your Markdown documents into professional, multilingual websites, in minutes.

Weekly Goal Tracker By George Gorman

Add buttons to the status bar that allow you to track of different weekly goals and update them with ease.

Simple Todo By elliotxx

A minimalist text-based todo manager (Text-Based GTD) plugin for efficient task management in Obsidian.

Snippetsaurus By Christian Humbert

Create, manage, and insert snippets into your notes. Snippets can be either text or code, and for code snippets, you can specify the programming language.

Updates

Easy Typing v5.5.10 By Yaozhuwa

• Enhanced functionality for CMD/Ctrl+A to support quote/callout, the first press selects the current quote line content, the second press selects the entire current quote
• Toggle code block comment command
  • Fixed the issue of incorrect comments in CSS code blocks 
  • Added support for comments in HTML, Markdown, and Matlab code blocks
  • Optimized the performance of this command on empty code lines
• Fixed the issue where MD links with parentheses inside would be incorrectly formatted

Pixel Banner v2.11.0 By Justin Parker

• Added
  • Ability to 📌 Pin URL banners
    • Great for when you find a URL for an image you want to use in Pixel Banner, you can quickly save it by adding the URL and then “Pinning” it.

Discord Timestamps v1.0.14 By Erika Gozar

• Added a background color to the timestamps.
• Made the timestamp display the full timestamp on hover, just like on Discord
• Fixed an issue where the text following the last timestamp would be cut off.
• Added functionality on mobile to display the full timestamp in a notice when clicking on the timestamp.
• Fixed the last update to use ontouchend instead of onClickEvent, since it only applies to mobile, and mobile doesn’t use onClickEvent.
• Added a setting to disable converting timestamps in codeblocks.
• Added a command to insert a timestamp from the Command palette or the editor context menu.
• Reformatted the modal to insert timestamps for mobile.
• Fixed the styles.css for the insert timestamp modal for mobile.
• Added a setting to override the format of timestamps in markdown codeblocks.
• Fixed an issue where some timestamps in markdown code blocks weren’t overridden.
• Fixed an issue where Override markdown codeblocks wouldn’t function if Convert code blocks was enabled.
• Small update to make inserting a timestamp replace any text you have selected before running the command.

Callout Toggles v1.1.0 By Aly Thobani

New settings added:

• Explicit or implicit callout titles
• Callout ID capitalization: lowercase, uppercase, sentence case, or title case
• Foldable callouts (unfoldable, foldable / expanded by default, foldable / collapsed by default)

Strange New Worlds v2.2.1 By TfTHacker

Improve the performance and accuracy of the reference counting system.
Minor feature addition: Reference count now appears in the File Properties sidebar

Rich Foot v1.9.0 By Justin Parker

• Added
  • Added Custom Created/Modified Date Property fields to allow users to specify their own frontmatter properties for dates, useful when file system dates are affected by sync processes and you track them separately.
  • If using custom created/modified date properties, the date now displays in the format of “Month Day, Year” if in proper date format, otherwise it displays the raw frontmatter filed string value.
  • Date Display Format option to allow users to specify their own date format
  • Support for Page Preview core plugin for Outlinks & Backlinks
  • Option to combine Outlinks / Backlinks in one view called Links
  • Directional arrows for Links
  • Outlinks for footnote internal links
• Fixed
  • Note embeds in canvas now have the correct height
  • Duplicate “show dates” option in settings
  • Date not formatted correctly if timestamp was included in the Custom Created/Modified Date Property
  • Page Preview not displaying properly in editing mode

simple-sketch v1.0.9 By Yoh

• Display
  • open simple-sketch in a new tab in main view
  • set sketch size to full app viewport
• Controls
  • undo with ctrl + z
  • redo with ctrl + shift + z
  • toggle grid with ctrl + shift + g
• New features
  • open an existing image in simple-sketch with file-menu
  • open a modal to save in a specific folder with a specific file name

Tasks v7.14.0 By Clare Macrae and llyas Landikov(created by Martin Schenck)

• Features
  • Add date-picker to Reading Mode and Tasks query results
  • See the Documentation
• Fixes
  • Align status column with other dates
  • Allow multiple spaces after onCompletion emoji
  • Handle any hidden VS16 character on all emojis

Pending

Caution

Notice: 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.

Lexicanter Glass By Saturnine

The official Lexicanter integration for Obsidian. Allows you to view your .lexc files inside your vaults.
learn more: https://lexicanter.com/

Appearance

Mulled Wine Theme By incantatem2

A gradient theme with ethereal colors in dark and light mode.

Glass Robo Theme By Lorens Osman

• Main Features
  • Glassy Design
    modern and sleek interface that enhances your Obsidian experience.
  • Custom fonts.
  • New icons for meta data properties.
  • Neat icons for files and folders.
  • Updated styles for callouts.
  • Custom checkboxes.
  • Tow sets of colors for headers.
• Additional Features
  • Stars background that gives the sensation of diving into space.
  • Integration with style settings plugin, which controls some of the features in the theme.
    • You can set background color.
    • You can select headers color scheme.
    • You can enable/disable custom fonts.
  • One backtick code block dynamic background color.
  • Gradenet color for note title.
  • icons for Cluster plugin.