Obsidian Weekly 2025-04-27：Obsidian updated to v1.8.10 & Smart Copy, Customizable Quick References and Notion-style Query

Obsidian Weekly 2025-04-20：Obsidian updated to v1.8.10 & Smart Copy, Customizable Quick References and Notion-style Query

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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 v1.8.10 public is now available!

Desktop

No longer broken

• Fixed several issues with numbered lists getting numbered incorrectly, such as when list items have leading spaces, or appear inside neighboring block quotes.
• Desktop-only: Fixed choppiness when resizing the app window.

Mobile

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.8.10.

Improvements

• On Android, it is now possible to use the app without giving the “All files” permission, however when doing so you can only store vaults inside the app storage.
• A small banner requesting feedback may appear at the top of settings. This is only visible for users with significant app usage. Once dismissed, it will never ask you again.
• Improved the onboarding flow to make it more clear that Sync is optional and make it easier to jump directly into vault creation.

No longer broken

• Shared Sync vaults are now included in the list of existing vaults during onboarding.
• Fixed bug where obsidian:// URIs would not fire their action if the app was previously closed.
• The navigation bar now shows up immediately when the keyboard closes.
• On Android, closing the keyboard keeps the editor focused. This fixes some keyboard functions like voice-to-text.

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

Open Tab Settings By jesse-r-s-hines

Adds settings to open in new tab by default and prevent duplicate tabs.

Easy Copy By Moy

Automatically identifies and copies different types of content based on cursor position, including inline code, bold text, highlighted text, italic text, block IDs, and heading links, or quickly generate an elegant link to a heading or block.

ProgressTracker By Van Nam

Track task completion with a visual progress bar in your sidebar, auto update column Kanban

Mention Things By Philipp Stracker

Add support to mention other notes via customizable signs. Most commonly used to @ -mention people:

Cubox By delphi-2015

Sync your Cubox articles & annotations.

Interactive Ratings By peritus

Add interactive rating symbols to your notes that update with a click.

Come Down By mntno

Download external images embedded in your notes, allowing them to be reused when you reopen the note. Once downloaded (cached), images will load if you’re offline or if you open a synced copy of your vault on another device.

Word Frequency By Mike Rodarte

Count the words in the current note and displays word frequency counts in the sidebar.

Auto Bullet By takitsuba

Automatically insert bullet points (”- ”) when you type spaces or tabs at the beginning of a line in Obsidian.

Minimal Quiz By Lutu-gl

Start a quick Markdown-based quiz on your current note. Simple, straightforward, and fully integrated — similar to flashcards in Anki or Quizlet!

QueryDash By lwx

Refer to Dataview and add search, sorting, and pagination functions, just like Notion.

Digital Sticky Notes By dgggg

A lightweight plugin that digitizes physical sticky notes, helping you quickly save, organize, and retrieve temporary notes.

Folder Navigator By wenlzhang

Quickly navigate to folders in your vault using fuzzy search.

Crosslink Advanced By d7sd6u

Tag files using folders and symlinks system (ftags).

Hide Index Files By d7sd6u

Hide folder notes from the file explorer. Use with folder-notes for the full experience.

Large Language Models By eharris128, r-mahoney, & jsmorabito

Enables access to LLMs via remote providers (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) and local LLMs via GPT4ALL. Models can be interacted with in the sidebar, main window, and a newly added, floating action button popup window.

On This Day I By Ben Stuart

Summarize a calendar date in years past with Daily Journals.

Codeless Heatmap Calendar By Behnam Aghajani

Fully-featured activity visualizer powered by Toggl data and more.

Updates

Lineage v0.8.4 By ycnmhd

• Bug fixes
  • (links) block and heading links don’t work as expected
  • (view) inactive views of a file trigger document-reload when another active view of the same file is saved
  • (ribbon) toggling a pinned view creates a new empty leaf
  • (dnd) dropping external text while editing adds the text twice
  • (minimap) single-char elements break double-tag elements
  • (minimap) space after tag should reset element type
  • (minimap) minimap scrolls to the bottom on mount
  • (minimap) canvas height not updated after document height change
  • (hotkeys) create-card-after-parent places the card at the end of the group
  • (hotkeys) root cards of pasted branches are selected in reverse, which affects immediate moving actions
  • (zoom) vim-cursor workaround affects sidebar cards
  • (zoom) fit-branch includes sidebar cards in measurements
  • (html-elements-format) replace <span/> with <span></span> to avoid issues with Obsidian links parser
  • (html-elements-format) span element is rendered in link previews
• Improvements
  • (search) add the ability to copy/cut search results
  • (card context-menu) add sort subsections action
  • (view context-menu) add eject document action
  • (settings) add default link behavior setting
  • (settings) add headings font size setting
  • (hotkeys) add select all sections hotkey
  • (hotkeys) allow deleting/cutting all cards
  • (rules) add global rules
  • (rules) add the ability to duplicate rules
  • (rules) add self-or-* targets
• Changes
  • (toolbar) move history buttons to top left corner, move zoom buttons to the bottom right corner
  • (lang) use section instead of card
  • (settings) use vertical tabs instead of a flat list
  • (hotkeys) replace undo/redo hotkeys with mod+z /mod+shift+z
  • (cards) remove has-children indicator
  • (card context-menu) replace export column action with export selection

Linter v1.29.0 By Victor Tao

This release is mostly dealing with getting some of the logic that has been in beta for a couple months out to regular users. The YAML fixes that allow for a broader support for YAML in YAML Sort have been merged. There are still places that use the regex to pull out the values of the YAML, but hopefully those can slowly be removed in favor of the new YAML package. Beyond that, there were a couple of bug fixes and minor changes on the website to fix a mermaid doc that worked locally, but not on github.

• What’s Changed
  • Features
    • Swap to from js-yaml to yaml for Parsing YAML
    • Feat: Add Ability to Ignore Files and Folders from Popup Menu and Commands
  • Bugs
    • Fix Table Recognition So It Does Not Match Table Rows with Just Dashes in Them
    • Fix Trailing Spaces Breaking List Items and Checklist Items
    • Fix List Ignore Type Ignoring More than It Should when Sublists Are Present
    • Fix UTC Not Properly Handled by YAML Timestamp When Format is Not Expected Format But Is UTC
    • Update Mermaid Diagram on How the Linter Works
    • Try to Remove List Numbering and See if that Fixes the Diagram

Last Position v0.2.6 By saktawdi

Fixed an issue that may cause slow startup in Obsidian.

Copilot v2.8.9 By Logan Yang

GPT 4.1 models and o4-mini are supported, and xAI is added as a provider! Another big update is canvas support! You can add canvas in your context by either a direct reference [[]] or the + button in your chat context menu! Copilot can even understand the group structure!

• Improvements
  • Implement canvas adaptor
  • Support gpt 4.1 series, o4-mini and grok 3
  • Switch insert and copy buttons and add more spacing
  • Add a toggle to turn custom prompt templating off
  • Ollama ApiKey support
  • refactor: Optimize some user experiences.
  • Improve custom command (v3)
  • Pass project state to broca call
  • Add update notification
  • Update broca requests
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix Azure OpenAI chat model baseURL construction logic.
  • Fix: Add a new line when press the Enter key on mobile.
  • Fix image in note logic

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 Table Math By eatcodeplay

Perform mathematical operations on Markdown tables. It dynamically calculates and displays results within your tables as you edit them. You can also copy the results to your clipboard, either via a keyboard shortcut or via the context menu.