Obsidian Weekly 2025-05-04：Incremental Editor Experience Optimization

Obsidian Weekly 2025-05-04：Incremental Editor Experience Optimization

Abstract

Statistical time: 2025-04-27 21:00 ~ 2025-05-04 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.

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

Sentence Rhythm By Adam Fletcher

Adds toggleable colored highlights to sentences based on their length so you can easily see the rhythm of your writing.

Model Viewer By Janis Pritzkau

View and embed interactive 3D models directly in your vault, powered by Google’s <model-viewer> component. Supports the glTF and GLB file formats.

Tick Tones By DontBlameMe

Plays a tone when you tick a checkbox

Reveal Folded By d7sd6u

Reveal the current file in the file explorer while collapsing all other tree items.

Reference Link Render By njko39

Enables reference-style Markdown links in reading mode and hides link definitions, like in Kramdown

JupyMD By Deniz Terzioglu

Creates and syncs Jupyter Notebooks from markdown notes through Jupytext.

Daily Notes Automater By David Pedrero

Automates the creation of a daily note

About Blank By Ai-Jani

Customize the empty file (New tab) itself a little bit by adding “Commands” or “Open files”. And edit these: Grouping, Set icon, Ask before execution, Register as a new command.

Image Embedder By Natalie Sumbo

Automatically downloads and embeds images from URLs when pasting

TOC compatible with Publish By Brian Collery

Table of contents plugin that will be compatible with Publish.

Rainbow Folders Fixer By Dee

Stop rainbow folders from changing colors when you scroll through the File explorer.

Quick Peek Sidebar By Bradley Wyatt

Automatically expand and collapse the left/right or both sidebars when hovering over the edge of the window.

Completed Tasks By Mgussekloo

Automatically sort completed tasks to the bottom of the list.

Date Range Expander By Mil

Quickly insert a range of dates into your notes. Perfect for planning, journaling, or creating date-based content.

Reader Mode By Dominik Mayer

Prevent accidental edits by locking notes in preview mode.

Proofreader By pseudometa (aka Chris Grieser)

AI-based proofreading and stylistic improvements for your writing. Changes are inserted as suggestions directly in the editor, similar to the suggested changes feature in word processing apps.

Auto Daily Note By John Dolittle

Automatically creates today’s daily note. Daily note plugin must be enabled.

Event Highlight By playmean

Render colored bars with relative event dates.

InscribeBy Ahmet Ildirim

Inscribe is an AI-powered inline autocompletion plugin for Obsidian. It will generate autocompletions as you type and you can accept or reject them with TAB.

Note Locker By Felvesthe

Lock notes to open in preview mode by default.

Advanced Debug Mode By mnaoumov

Add an easy way to switch Obsidian debug mode on/off. When active, inline source maps will not be stripped from loaded plugins.

Double row toolbar By Lorens Osman

Adds a second row to the toolbar on mobile devices, allowing for more quick access buttons.

CSV Lite By Jay Bridge

Just open and edit a CSV file in workspace view, no more. Keep it simple.

Paste Reformatter By Keath Milligan

Reformat pasted HTML and plain text content, giving you precise control over how content is transformed when pasted into your notes.

• Use RegEx to transform HTML and Markdown.
• Reformat HTML before converting to Markdown for better formatting results.
• Automatically adjust pasted heading levels to match content.
• Strip blank lines and elements.

ClipperMaster By aqeja

Extract structured data from web pages, building your personalized information database.
Works with the ClipperMaster Chrome extension to clip structured content from the web.

Image Share By Shawn

Share selected text as beautiful images.

Updates

Excalidraw v2.11.0 By Zsolt Viczian

• New
  • New “Screenshot” option in the Export Image dialog. This allows you to take a screenshot of the current view, including embedded web pages, youtube videos, and markdown documents. Screenshot is only possible in PNG.
  • Expose parameter in plugin settings to disable AI functionality
  • Enable (disable) double-click text editing option in Excalidraw appearance and behavior (based on request on Discord)
  • Added two new PDF export sizes: “Match image”, “HD Screen”.
  • Switch between basic shapes. Quickly change the shape of the selected element by pressing TAB
  • Updated the Scribble Helper Script. Now controls are at the top so your palm doesn’t accidently trigger them. The author added a new button to insert special characters. Scribble helper now makes use of the new text element wrapping in Excalidraw.
• Fixed in the plugin
  • Scaling multiple embeddables at once did not work.
  • When creating multiple back-of-the-note the second card is not created correctly if autosave has not yet happened.
  • Drawing reloads while editing the back-of-the-note card in certain cases causes editing to be interrupted.
  • Moved Excalidraw filetype indicator ✏️ to after filename where other filetype tags are displayed. You can turn the filetype indicator on/off in plugin settings under Miscellaneous.
• Fixed by Excalidraw.com
  • Alt-duplicate now preserves the original element. Previously, using Alt to duplicate would swap the original with the new element, leading to unexpected behavior and several downstream issues.
  • When dragging the arrow endpoint, update the binding only on the dragged side
  • Laser pointer trail disappearing on pointerup

Brat v1.1.6 By TfTHacker

• Features
  • use suggest modal for long plugin version lists
• Bug Fixes
  • fix a regression with addPlugin calls and error handling
  • on mobile, always use a dropdown for the versions selection
  • catch API authentication errors
  • fetch more versions

Vertical Tabs v0.16.0 By oxdc

• What’s New
  • Webview Icons: Website favicons now appear on webview tabs, enhancing visual recognition when browsing the web within Obsidian. Credit: @AlanJs26
  • Enhanced Mission Control View: Added customization options for zoom factor and pointer interactions, featuring a new responsive layout that adapts elegantly to various screen sizes. Credit: @PandaNocturne
• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected ephemeral tab history handling issues
  • Eliminated conflicts between Enhanced Keyboard Tab Switcher and built-in hotkeys
  • Properly disabled per-tab zooming commands when the feature is turned off
  • Resolved the issue where Vertical Tabs icon would disappear after restarting Obsidian

Quiet Outline v0.3.45 By the_tree

• Add drag preview element. Now you can drag a heading into a note and make it an internal link.
• Fix conflict with homepage plugin
• Fix problem with list-like format in heading (1. xxxx, + xxxx, - xxx and so on)
• Setting: make keeping search input when switching between notes an option now.
• Add a setting to control rtl behavior.
• Fix conflic with banner plugin when scrolling in preview mode.

ZettelFlow v2.10.0 By RafaelGB

• Deprecation of example/ folder
  The old example/ folder has been deprecated. All sample flows now live in the new Flows Catalog, accessible directly from the canvas. You can browse, select, and paste any catalog flow into your workspace in one click.
• Flows Catalog & Canvas Integration
  • Browse a curated list of ready-to-use flows in the sidebar.
  • Click Copy to inject the flow into the clipboard and use the new canvas button to paste it into your ZettelFlow canvas
• Unified Markdown Download
  Flows that include .md files now expose a Download All button in the flow preview. Clicking it bundles all Markdown assets into your configured template folder path.

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Task Genius has been updated to v8.5.1

V8.3.0

Feat

• feat: support open view as single tab, you can right click on sidebar menu of task genius view.
• feat: support switch view via command
• feat: support multi paths suggest
• feat: support multi paths when set path filter in view config

Fix

• fix: cannot update task when use text switcher with tasks plugin
• fix(settings): remove duplicate Gantt view configuration
• fix: compatitable issue with outliner and tasks plugin
• fix: @ in link should not be hide when index
• fix: insert markdown link should not influence task status
• fix: sort task metadata to match tasks plugin

Chore

• chore: support basic test
• fix(settings): remove duplicate Gantt view configuration

V8.3.1

Feat

• feat: support icon menu for view config
• improve: default view cannot be deleted from sidebar (You can hide it)
• improve: prevent escape hotkey of view

Fix

• fix: cannot update active item correctly when delete item from sidebar

V8.4.0

Feat

• feat: support full reward system

Improvement

• feat: support refresh menu-button of the view via pane menu
• feat: better index method that based on full app related, would not share between vault.

Fix

• fix: tag issue in markdown link or wiki link

Chore/Style

• chore: update design doc for reward system
• chore: update translation for zh-CN/zh-TW/ru/uk/ja
• chore: new Ukrainian translation

V8.5.0

Feat

• Support full habit feature

• Reward modal is based on task completed now
• Support daily note path as due date/start/scheduled date

Fix

• Fix tab header issue
• Fix plan duplicate issue

Other Updates

• Update translations
• Ukrainian translation update:
  • Refactoring like in original en file
  • New Reward system
  • Small updates in progress bars and metadata

What’s Changed

• feat/habit by @Quorafind in #152
• Update Ukrainian translation and reward system enhancements

V8.5.1

Improvement

• feat: support showRewardType setting in reward settings.