Obsidian Weekly 2025-03-30：Official web clipper plugin with built-in AI chat history preservation & hyper-dimensional note-taking experience enhancement.
Obsidian Weekly 2025-03-30：Official web clipper plugin with built-in AI chat history preservation & hyper-dimensional note-taking experience enhancement.
AbstractStatistical time: 2025-03-23 21:00 ~ 2025-03-30 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 v0.11.3
New
- Added built-in support for saving ChatGPT and Claude chats
Improved
- Improved code block and footnote extraction, via defuddle 0.3.6
Plugin News
Community Plugins
New
Xiaohongshu Importer By bnchiang96
Import Xiaohongshu (小红书) notes with media and categorization.
Git Changelog By shumadrid
Uses Git to display dynamic vault and file changelogs in the sidebar, useful for spotting data loss.
AI Helper By David Connolly
An AI helper tool for summarizing text and providing a chatbot to let you ask questions about your notes.
Auto Folder Note Paste By d7sd6u
Ensures your attachments are placed inside your note when pasting or using drag-and-drop by converting your note into a folder note.
Extended GraphBy Kapirklaa
Extends the features of the core Graph view, display images, manage states, remove links, change node shapes, and more.
Command Line By Steven Stallion
Copy command lines from your notes to the clipboard without selecting text.
CmdSearch By SpaceshipCaptain
Quickly search the web from within ObsidianMD using custom commands from your command palette!
For the best experience, enable the core plugin Web Viewer; otherwise the links open outside of Obsidian in your browser.
Collapsible Code Blocks By Bradley Wyatt
Make code blocks collapsible in preview mode with customizable collapse/expand behavior and horizontal scrolling options.
Wheel Tab Switcher By 22-2
Switch between Tabs using your mouse wheel when hovering over tab headers.
LLM Test Generator By Aldo E George
Generate AI-powered test questions from your notes with multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, Mistral, Gemini, DeepSeek) to enhance your learning and retention.
GitHub Gitless Sync By Silvano Cerza
Sync a GitHub repository with vaults on different platforms without requiring git installation
The author highly recommend not using this plugin with another sync service. This might create problems for this plugin when determining what needs to be synced between remote repository and local vault.
Smart ChatGPT By 🌴 Brian
Integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT seamlessly in notes. Automatically saves links, allows marking threads as done, and integrates with Dataview.
Research Quest By Nathan Arthur
Use AI to generate and track research questions based on your notes.
Advanced Progress Bars By cactuzhead
Create custom progress bars by using a simple markdown code block.
Backlink Full Path By mnaoumov
Shows the backlink’s full path in the backlinks panel.
Heading Decorator By dragonish
Implement displaying specific content around headings based on their levels.
This plugin supports optional decoration for reading view, editing view (Live Preview and Source mode) and Outline plugin. This plugin does not modify any note content, only decorates the heading section based on the existing note content.
Ink Player By Uglyboy
Play interactive fiction powered by Inkle’s ink engine, designed for web games.
Pinned Daily Notes By Jeremy Neiman
Provide a dedicated button and command to open today’s daily note in a pinned tab.
TG Emoji Search By MarsBatya
Lets you type out emojis like in Telegram.
This plugin provides a fast and intuitive way to insert emojis into your Obsidian notes. By typing a trigger character (”:” by default) followed by a keyword, you get an instant suggestion list of matching emojis, complete with optional keyword hints. The plugin also includes a command to insert a random emoji, plus it tracks your most used emojis.
Simple Archiver By Mike Farr
Moves files or an entire folder to an archive folder that you specify in the plugin’s settings. The items are moved to the same relative path in the archive. If the base archive folder doesn’t exist when you send something to the archive, it will be created automatically.
File Compressor By networkmastered
File compressor creates a new file type which is a .ctxt(compressed txt) in order to make your files smaller. Although it says txt it does support markdown.
The editor works by taking Obsidian’s default markdown editor and then telling it to not refresh it to the saved data(which doesnt always work), then once Obsidian saves the plugin will then copy all of the contents of the file and then compress it.
One Step Wiki Link By Busyo
Performs one-step conversion of matched wiki links (outgoing links) in the currently opened document within the editor.
This plugin supports both manual and automatic conversion of wiki links, and allows excluding specific files or directories to prevent unnecessary link conversions.
Image to HTML By 0x1DA9430
Paste images as HTML format instead of wikilink or markdown format.
Canvas Format Brush By wenlzhang
Copy and paste formatting attributes (size and color) between canvas elements, similar to the format painter in Word.
AutoMover By Al0cam
Moves files with specified names into the same folder.
Wordflow Tracker By LeCheenaX
Track the changes and stats of your edited note files automatically. Record the modified notes and statistics to your daily note.
Daily News Briefing By Adam Chen
Get AI-powered daily news summaries in your vault. Features customizable topics, smart filtering, and automated scheduling.
Hover Reveal By Shawn Yang
Shows hidden text in tooltips when hovering over marked elements using
[visibleText]{tooltipText}syntax.
Link Opening Restore By SmallZombie
Restores the link opening method to Ctrl + Left Click in edit mode.
Chronotyper By BambusControl
Track the total time of your edits directly inside your notes. It will automatically save the total edit time, and the modification timestamp in the notes properties.
Vault Nickname By @rscopic
Override the vault’s display name. Intended to disambiguate vaults with the same folder name when adhering to a common folder structure between projects.
Updates
Manual Sorting v2.1.0 By Kh4f
- Improved Performance: Reordering of the subtree within the folder now occurs only after all child elements have been loaded.
- Improved Name Conflict Handling: Files and folders can now be safely moved, and their order will be correctly updated, when a name conflict occurs.
Quick Explorer v0.2.15 By PJ Eby
Improved move, rename, and folder-create workflows
- Support creating folders w/out file explorer (#113), allowing folders to be created even if the files plugin is disabled or hidden. Newly created folders are immediately shown in the current Quick Explorer.
- Moving a file or folder no longer requires the files plugin to be active, and after the move, Quick Explorer navigates to the file or folder’s new location
- Renaming a file or folder also returns to the Quick Explorer menu, instead of closing after the operation.
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Floating TOC has been updated to v2.6.5
CORE UPGRADES
- SETTINGS OVERHAUL: Ditched Style Setting dependency - this bad boy stands on its own now
- SPEED DEMON: Large docs? No problem. Our new loading system chews through them like nothing
FRESH STYLE PACK
We’re serving looks with these new toggleable styles:
default-bar-style- Your basic sidekickenable-edge-style- For those Dropbox fanboysenable-bar-icon- Because why not?enable-bold-bar- Thicc mode activatedenable-dot-style- Minimalist vibesenable-square-style- For the sharp-edged crowdenable-vertical-line-style- Coding blog essentialenable-hollow-line-style- Ghost mode engaged
INTERACTION UPGRADES
- ONE-TAP COLLAPSE: Boom! All your headings just disappeared
- AUTO-HIDE: Shy mode for when you’re feeling minimalist
- SMARTER HOVER: No more accidental pop-ups mid-scroll
- CSS NINJA TRICK: Slap
hide-floating-tocon notes to make the TOC vanish
POWER USER STUFF
- COPY-PASTE GOD MODE:
- Your TOC now copies as clickable wikilinks
- PDF exports actually work now (shoutout Better PDF Export)
- NO MORE WASTED SPACE: Short headings don’t get bullied by extra padding
- COLOR SCHEMES:
- Defaults to your theme (because we’re not monsters)
- Still lets you go wild with Style Settings if you’re extra
Editing Toolbar has been updated to v3.1.13
- Added modal dialog for link and image editing via right-click
- Enhanced right-click menu interactions
- Added remote URL title fetching with auto-adaptive image width
- Improved link format detection logic
- Implemented special cursor effects during format painter application
- Enhanced format painter command with automatic current format detection
- Supports applying format painter to selected callout blocks
- Replaced confirmation dialogs with modal dialogs
- Enabled title configuration for image links
Task Genius has been updated to v5.0.0
- Feat/move completed children
- Three new commands and also one setting to allow you to archive completed tasks easily
- When moving to other files, you can easily add version marks, date marks, or custom marks to parent tasks
- You can move only direct completed sub-tasks or all completed sub-tasks
- This feature is made for continuous and more convenient task management
- Three new commands and also one setting to allow you to archive completed tasks easily
- FIx cannot indent multi lines children correctly
- Filter panel to filter out/in tasks in current editor view
- Quick capture panel in current view(just like org-mode)
Thino has been updated to v2.7.5
- improve
- reduced bundle size by approximately 200kb
- added new paste options for users
- “Text” option maintains previous behavior
- “Block-link” option uses Obsidian’s native drag logic
- updated settings descriptions
- Clarified that drag behavior settings only apply when using diary as source
- removed unnecessary console logs
- fix
- display issues in archive view
- block ID handling in multi-line Thinos
- Block IDs now correctly insert at the end of the last non-list/quote line
- Metadata no longer displays after block IDs
Appearance
Things 3 Theme By Paralloid
This theme is aimed to provide consistent experience to those who use Obsidian together with Things 3. It has been tested on macOS, iPadOS, and iOS only.