Obsidian Weekly 2025-03-02：Obsidian v1.8.9 Preview! Diversified note browsing views and text pasting methods

Obsidian Weekly 2025-03-02：Obsidian v1.8.9 Preview! Diversified note browsing views and text pasting methods

Abstract

Statistical time: 2025-02-23 21:00 ~ 2025-03-02 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 v1.8.9 catalyst is now available!

Desktop

Improvements

• Updated translations.
• Improved app performance when a tree view (e.g. File explorer) is displaying a large number of items.
• Updated app settings to reflect changes to the Commercial license.
• List auto-numbering now preserves custom starting numbers.
• Obsidian Sync: Added a warning before connecting to a remote vault if the vault is already managed by a third-party sync service that could cause conflicts.
• When “Smart indent lists” is disabled, the editor no longer automatically renumbers lists.

Bug fixes

• Fixed regression causing large vaults to take significantly longer to load and save the cache (bug since Electron 33).
• Live preview now correctly renders - - - as a horizontal rule.
• Notes with corrupted fold information can now be opened.
• Tables inside embeds will now render full width.
• Checklist items inside loose lists are indented correctly.
• Clicking inside a PDF view now focuses the view.
• Folding a list item in reading mode now persists when switching to edit mode.
• If properties are hidden, pressing Down Arrow from the inline title focuses the editor.
• Creating a new vault via the “Quick start” button now opens welcome.md.
• Link suggestions now include files with extensions registered by plugins.
• File changes made shortly after opening the app now properly save to File Recovery.
• Fixed numbered lists getting numbered incorrectly when nested inside a bulleted list.
• Clicking on a stacked tab in reading mode will now properly scroll the tab into view.

Mobile

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.8.9.

No longer broken

• Android: Fixed regression causing large vaults to take significantly longer to load and save the cache (bug since Chromium 130).
• Onboarding: Improved clarity around managed and self-managed passwords for Obsidian Sync.

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

GridExplorer By Devon22

Browse note files in a grid view.

Media Viewer By By Devon22

Provide an intuitive media browser that allows users to easily view media files (such as images and videos) within their notes.

My Thesaurus By Mara-Li

Automagically adds tags based on a thesaurus CSV or a Markdown table.

Paste Image Into Property By Nito

Add images from the clipboard to frontmatter properties in live preview mode.
Compatible with the paste imag rename plugin.

Extended Markdown Syntax By Kotaindah55

Extend your markdown syntax using delimiters instead of HTML tags, such as underlining, superscript, subscript, highlighting, aligning.

Rsync By Ganapathy Raman

Sync notes and automate backups using Rsync.

YourPulse - Your Writing Activity Visualised By Jiri Sifalda

Allow users to track their daily word count across all notes in their vault. It provides a visual representation of your writing activity, similar to GitHub’s contribution graph, and offers a public profile feature for sharing selected notes.

Image Size By Jie Zhang

Set the default size for pasted images.

Paste Quote By Jacob Williams

To help with formatting and citing quotations when pasting them from the clipboard. Currently, citation support only applies to quotes pasted from the Kindle app, and is focused on generating Pandoc-style citations.
The plugin also contains a command to help paste references from e.g. Zotero into the references section of the note’s front matter, and a command to insert a Pandoc-style citation for an item from the references section.

LLM Tagger By David Jayatillake

Use Ollama to automatically tag your Obsidian notes using large language models running locally on your machine.

Daily Routine By sechan100

Help you track and manage recurring tasks—whether they are daily, scheduled on specific weekdays, or important tasks in your routine.

FolderFile Splitter By Xu Quan

Splits folder and file lists into separate views, simplifying navigation, improving clarity, and making it more intuitive to organize your notes

Hide Commands in Menu By bomian98

Allows you to hide any commands, including those from community plugins.

PDF Paste By Cormac

When copying text from PDFs or other sources, you often end up with ugly formatting, unwanted newlines, and hyphenated line breaks. PDF paste cleans up the formatting, fitting better into your notes.

PDF Writer By Jobelin Kom

to write and fill a PDF.

Extended File Support By Nick de Bruin

Adds file support for various file types. Allows viewing and embedding these filetypes. Includes: .kra, .psd, .obj, .glb, .gltf, and more.

Checkbox Sync By Grol

Automatically checks the parent checkbox if all child checkboxes are completed, and unchecks it otherwise.

HTML checkboxes By Anareaty

Allows to quickly add HTML checkboxes to your notes and makes them clickable.

Last Position By saktawdi

Automatically scroll to the last viewed position when opening the markdown document.
Editor’s note: Can be regarded as an advanced version of the Remember cursor position plugin.

Thecap cv generator By Thecap

Generate a PDF version of your CV directly within your Obsidian vault.

Timecodes By Kirill Gavrilov

Turns raw timecodes (MM:SS/HH:MM:SS) into clickable links in Obsidian reading mode.

Idle Monitor By alberto98fx

Tracks user activity and provides real-time feedback when you stop typing or moving your mouse. It includes customizable options to display idle time, adjust settings for activity monitoring, and showcase a beautiful rainbow gradient for the status text.

Flowcharts By land0r

Render flowcharts using flowchart.js markup.

On This Day By Jose Elias Alvarez

Show your daily notes from this day in a simple panel view. Inspired by Day One’s On This Day feature.

Updates

PDF++ 0.40.27 By Ryota Ushio

• New feature & improvements
  • Now you can enable dark mode in rectangular selection embeds by activating the new option Rectangular selection embeds > Follow “adapt to theme” setting (obsidian://pdf-plus?setting=rectFollowAdaptToTheme).
  • Added Toggle PDF sidebar command.
  • Now you can hold down Cmd / Ctrl key while selecting a copy format from the context menu to bypass the option Context menu in PDF viewer > Update color palette from context menu (obsidian://pdf-plus?setting=updateColorPaletteStateFromContextMenu).
  • Add a new option Misc > Do not display popups for rubber stamp annotations (obsidian://pdf-plus?setting=hideStampAnnotation). This will be helpful for those who uses iOS/iPad’s Markup tool for handwriting. See the description in the setting tab for details.
  • You can now press Escape to quit rectangular selecton mode.
• Bugfix
  • Fixed the issue #397 that loading many rectangular selection embeds at the same time would result in too much memory usage, which caused the app to crash on mobile. It was fixed by improving memory usage and limiting the concurrency (the number of tasks executed simultaneously) in embed rendering.
• Misc
  • If your Obsidian installer is older than 1.6.5, PDF++ will show you a warning and prompt you to reinstall Obsidian. This is because it turned out that installers older than that make it impossible to drag & drop external PDFs to create dummy files (#395).
  • Also, a warning will be shown for those whose Obsidian app version is older than 1.6.5 because they will not be able to receive PDF++ updates in the near future.

Anchor Link Display Text v1.2.0 By Robert C Arsenault

• Added
  • Display text suggestions. A suggestions popup will appear when the cursor is directly after an anchor link with display text. There will be three suggestions one, for each of the display text formats that can be used with this plugin (no note name, note name and then heading(s), heading(s) and then note name).
• Changed
  • Heading separators are now validated to not include link breaking characters []|#^. If any of these characters are typed into the separator field, the character will be ignored and a warning will appear.
• Fixed
  • ^ character will not be included in the display text when linking to a block.
  • Minor typos.

Appearance

flexcyon Theme By bladeacer

A Obsidian theme combining the colour schemes of Halcyon and Flexoki.

Sad Machine Druid Theme By Halftroll0

An Obsidian theme based on 0xGlitchbyte’s Everforest port. Colors shifted away from red/green toward blue/green