Obsidian v1.8.9 Officially Released! Manual drag-and-drop sorting & automatic task integration

Obsidian Weekly 2025-03-09：Obsidian v1.8.9 Officially Released! Manual drag-and-drop sorting & automatic task integration

Abstract

Statistical time: 2025-03-02 21:00 ~ 2025-03-09 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 public is now available!

Desktop

Improvements

• Updated in-app 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.
• When “Smart indent lists” is disabled, the editor no longer automatically renumbers lists.
• 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.

No longer broken

• 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.
• 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.

Third-party libraries

• The installer has been updated to Electron 34.3.0. This includes a fix for menus not appearing correctly when right-clicking on macOS.

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

Hârn Weather Generator By Marc André Ueberall

Weather generator for the HârnMaster: Roleplaying in the World of Kèthîra rule system.

Export Graph View By Sean McGhee

Export your vault’s graph view to mermaid .mmd and dot .dot format.

Reading View j/k Scroll By Lukas Korotaj

Scroll in reading view with Vim-like keybindings. j and k for scrolling, as well as scrolling to top with gg and to bottom with G.

Write Good By Mark Hesketh

Integrates write good, a linter for English prose and improving writing style.

Tier List By Mox Alehin

Render nested lists as visual Tier Lists, providing an intuitive way to organize, rank, and display items using customizable tiers.

Spaced Repetition AI By Belinda Mo, Athena Leong

Review, generate, and add flashcards for your notes using AI

Blog AI Generator By Gareth Ng

Transforms your Obsidian notes into well-structured blog posts. It leverages OpenAI’s language models to optimize content, supports multiple languages, and handles images within your notes.

Memos AI Sync By leoleelxh

A plugin that syncs Memos content to Obsidian, providing seamless integration.

Chat clips By sleepingraven

Record chat in markdown list in editing view, and display comments-like layout in reading view.

AI Tagger Universe By Hu Nie

Automatically analyze note content and add relevant tags using AI

KOI Sync By Luke Miller

Synchronizes data from a Slack Telescope instance using the KOI-net protocol.

ASCII Tree Generator By Matěj Michálek

Convert indented code blocks with hierarchy markers into formatted ASCII tree diagrams.

Manual Sorting By Kh4f

Enable manual sorting within the file explorer using drag-and-drop.

Content Cards By leo

Insert content cards in Markdown, such as timeline, highlightblock, target card, book information card, music information card, movie information card, photoes ablum, business card, content subfield, countdown, etc.

VaultSync By Justin Bird

Link your vault to a cloud provider. Currently only supporting dropbox.

Asana By Ryan Bantz

Create Asana tasks from highlighted text or the current line.

Vision Recall By Vision Recall

Transform screenshots into searchable notes using AI vision and text analysis.

Cursor Position History By Florian Gubler

Remember the previous positions of the cursor across files: auto-scroll to the correct position in a new file. Navigate backward and forward through your cursor position history without losing context.

Title As Link Text By Lex Toumbourou

Automatically converts link text to the best title found from file attributes, H1 headers, or filenames.

Task Mover By Mariia Nebesnaia

Automatically locate unfinished tasks across your notes and consolidates them into a single daily note. It will group the tasks by the original file or by topic. It can also gather the surrounding information and move it together with the tasks.

Infio Copilot By duanfuxiang0

A Cursor-inspired AI assistant for notes that offers smart autocomplete and interactive chat with your selected notes

Updates

Vertical Tabs v0.15.1 By oxdc

• What’s New
  • New Icon: Fresh new look for Vertical Tabs!
  • Improved Algorithm: Refined “Notebook” and “Explorer” navigation strategies.
  • Enhanced Keyboard Tab Switching: Tab numbers now appear in horizontal tabs.
  • Smoother Experience: “Open Vertical Tabs” command no longer triggers animation.
• Notice
  Vertical Tabs is undergoing a major refactoring, so bug fixes and new features will be released more slowly. This refactoring is essential to improving performance and stability. If you encounter any issues after updating, please report them on GitHub.

Task Board v1.3.0 By Atmanand Gauns

• New Big Features
  • Status for Tasks : A new property for adding status to your tasks, similar to the one from Tasks plugin.
  • Robustness : Task Board is not robust enough to work with all your custom task formats. No need to restrict yourself anymore with the pipe symbol (|) functionality to separate your task properties (metadata). Write your tasks the way you want in your notes and Task Board will preserve the format.
  • Confirmation Popup : After adding any property in the Edit task modal, a confirmation popup will be shown if you accidentally close the modal without saving.
  • Emojis support for the checkboxes with different statuses. Shout out to @ITS-Theme for the Alternate Checkbox CSS Snippet.
  • Improved integration with Tasks plugin, to get the same options for setting the task status.
  • A new setting option to hide the metadata from task title inside the Task Item card for a clean look.
  • A new command to access the “Scan vault window” easily.
• Bug Fixes
  • Dated columns not able to segregate tasks and they appear one day off, as discussed in #130.
  • All bugs discussed in the issue #119.
  • Priority was not detected properly.
  • zh-CN language wasn’t detecting due to mismatch of lang code mapping.
• Other Changes
  • Changed the way how dated columns range works. No more support for infinity. Please refer this : https://tu2-atmanand.github.io/task-board-docs/docs/Components/Types_Of_Columns/#dated
  • Improved toggle button and description area in the Task card.
  • Improved checkbox animation.
  • Updated props of various functions.
  • Task Board will now be using Obsidian Typings for better APIs support.
  • Improved the fresh install welcome screen with better instructions.
  • Made the border of Task Item cards a little lighter.
  • Due date property can now support both formats 2025-03-07 and 07-03-2025.
  • Loading animation while opening the view.
  • Enhanced the language translations for es.ts.
  • Enhanced the language translations for zh-CN.ts.

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.

Zettel Status Sidekick By Caffa

Provides a handy side panel that displays the current status of your active note based on a series of customizable checks. It’s designed to be a visual aid in your note-taking workflow, particularly if you’re using the Zettelkasten method. The plugin checks various criteria you define, such as note length, presence of tags, links to other notes, and more, to give you a quick overview of how “complete” a note is. You can configure these checks to match your personal note development process and easily see at a glance which notes need more work and which are ready to be considered more permanent pieces of your knowledge system.

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.

Editing Toolbar Receives a Major Version Update!

✨New Features

• Added one-click addition of custom commands to the toolbar
• Added custom command functionality
• Added support for erasing Callout format
• Added support for Markdown command format brush
• Added support for Canvas view
• Added support for meld-encrypted-view view
• Added support for horizontal and vertical toolbar adjustments in fixed mode
• Added update notifications

Improvements

• Optimized memory usage caused by Pickr
• Revamped settings interface
• Optimised for mobile devices

Fixes

• Fixed editor cursor focus loss issue
• Fixed spelling issues

Cleanup

• Removed redundant files

Refactor

• Code refactoring

Notes

• After this update, please click the “Fix Commands” button in the popup to prevent previous commands from becoming invalid.

Appearance

FastPpuccin Theme By LostViking09

FastPpuccin is a streamlined version of the popular AnuPpuccin theme, designed with performance in mind. It maintains the beautiful aesthetics of the original while removing most features and configurations to achieve maximum speed.

aged whisky Theme By incantatem2

Elegant, minimalist dark theme.

Vercel Geist Theme By en3sis

A clean, modern Geist theme inspired by Vercel’s design system with dark and light modes.

LessWrong Theme By henry

This is a theme that brings the styling of rationalist forum LessWrong 2.0 to Obsidian.

Retro Windows Theme By codeisconfusing

Give your notes a nostalgic journey back to the early 1990s computing era. This theme recreates the classic Windows 3.1 aesthetic with its iconic gray interface, 3D-effect buttons, and pixelated charm. Available in both light and dark variants, it combines vintage visual appeal with modern note-taking functionality. Perfect for users who appreciate computing history or simply want a unique, visually distinctive Obsidian experience.