Obsidian Weekly 2025-03-23：The evolution of "Attachments" and Task Management.

Obsidian Weekly 2025-03-23：The evolution of “Attachments” and Task Management.

Abstract

Statistical time: 2025-03-16 21:00 ~ 2025-03-23 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 v0.11.2

• New
  • Added {{words}} preset variable for word count.
• Improved
  • Fixed primary button not triggering in side panel mode.
  • Upgraded to Defuddle 0.3.3 which includes many improvements for accurately getting the content of pages, with many improvements for code blocks and math.
  • Fixed indenting nested list items.

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

File Title Updater By wenlzhang

Synchronize titles between filename, frontmatter, and first heading in notes.

Annotate Audio By VidE

Listen to an audio and add comments to it.

Smooth Cursor By Busyo

Make your cursor move smoothly instead of jumping abruptly to the target position.
This plugin supports cursor trailing, displaying the movement path as the cursor moves.

Multiple Daily Notes By Vab Kapoor

Create multiple daily notes in one vault, with additional configuration options including time offsets for creating notes past midnight, choosing the ribbon icon to use for the note, and more.

Paper Clipper By ras0q

Capture and manage academic papers.

Idealogs Annotator By Idealogical Foundation

For viewing and linking Idealogs articles.

Attachments Cache By luisbs

Store remote attachments (currently only images) locally inside the vault.
The note is NOT modified, this way even outside of the vault the attachments keep working with the remotes URL.
When the attachment is rendered in a note, the local version is used instead of the remote working as a local cache.

Tagvis By Mason Bryant

Visualize your tags as a configurable sunburst visualization.

Dropbox Photo Grid By Ali Moeeny

Embed a grid of photos from your Dropbox account based on a specific date. It’s perfect for displaying daily photos, memories, or any date-based photo collections within your Obsidian vault.

Bookshelf By Philip Weinke

Your personal bookshelf in Obsidian. Access all your book notes in one place, track your reading progress, and gain insights into your reading habits with beautiful charts.

CSV All-in-One By hihangeol

A plugin for creating .csv files, modifying their data, saving them, and performing various CSV-related operations.

Note Favicon By mdklab

Extracts a URL from the frontmatter of notes and displays an associated favicon image next to the note title in the file tree. Supports standard URLs and base64-encoded images.

Image Picker By ari.the.elk

A blazingly fast way to browse, search, and embed pictures across your vault. It’s extremely performant, automatically generating thumbnails and background indexing your vault for instant search results.

InfoFlow By RockieStar Inc.

Sync your saved InfoFlow.app articles and highlights, similar to ReadWise and Omnivore.

Updates

NetClip v1.3.4 By Elhary

• New Features
  • Default Quick Save Location: You can now set a default folder for quick saves when no specific category is selected.
  • Domain-Specific Save Locations: Automatically save clips from specific websites to designated folders:
    • Configure custom save locations for different domains (e.g., reddit.com → Reddit folder)
    • Each domain can have its own unique save location
    • Saves automatically route to the correct folder based on the website’s domain
  • AI Clipping: NetClip now supports AI-powered clipping! Instantly transform your clipped content with customizable prompts for translation, summarization, and note formatting or create your own. Learn how to create prompts here.

PDF++ 0.40.28 By RyotaUshio

• Improvements
  • Added a workaround for a bug of Obsidian preventing some PDF++ commands from being executed successfully from the command palette.
  • Added a workaround for a bug of Obsidian where double-click not selecting the clicked word.
  • The “Copy debug info” command now includes Android System WebView version on Android.
• Misc
  • Added deprecation warnings about the following:
    • The “Trim selection/annotation embeds” option
    • Tempalte variables linkedFile, linkedFileProperties
    • Using Dataview inline fields to associate Markdown files with PDFs (use Obsidian’s built-in properties instead)
  • Update dependencies.
  • Now PDF++ uses pnpm as the package manager.

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.

Simple Colored Folder By Mara-Li

Automagically add color to root folder, and customize it with Style Settings.
Supports both light & dark themes

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.

Task Progress Bar has been completely rebuilt and renamed to Task Genius.

Key Enhancements in Task Genius

Comprehensive Task Status Management

If the original Task Progress Bar was based on whether tasks were completed or not, Task Genius is now based on task statuses. It supports in-progress, planned, abandoned, and custom states, with theme support for statuses that’s compatible with most features of the Tasks plugin.

The most significant evolution is the move from simple task completion to a rich task status ecosystem:

• Customizable Task Statuses: Beyond just completed/uncompleted, Task Genius now supports in-progress, planned, abandoned, and custom states
• Status Theming Support: Pre-defined status collections that align with popular task management systems. You can select status markers from themes like Minimal, Border, and others through a dropdown interface
• Visual Status Indicators: Custom task marks that visually represent different statuses
  • For example, supporting TODO, IN-PROGRESS, DONE as task markers instead of the original checkbox
• Task Status Switcher: Cycle through task states with a single click, such as switching from TODO to IN-PROGRESS to DONE
  • Fully compatible with all Obsidian commands
  • Support for child task status changes triggering parent task status changes
  • Keyboard shortcut support for task status switching

For more details please read the article From Task Progress Bar to Task Genius: Evolving a Task Management Tool | Boninall.

Editing Toolbar has been updated to v3.1.8

• Feat: Support toolbar theme & icon size!
• Under multiple configurations, switching the status bar position also initializes the toolbar.
• On mobile devices, when “following” mode is enabled, the system menu is disabled.
• Optimized the positioning display of the “following” toolbar.
• Resolved an issue where text selection on mobile failed to trigger the “following” style.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed the failure of fixed mode on mobile.
  • Improved compatibility with Excalidraw.

Floating Toc has been updated to v2.5.3

• Optimized performance for large documents.
• Adjusted some styling to use theme variables for colors.
• Added bold styling.

Appearance

Minimal-Dark-Coder Theme By Krishna Sen

Minimal Dark Coder Theme theme for Obsidian, compatible with Obsidian v1.