Obsidian Weekly 2025-06-22：Achieve simplicity through complexity; master complexity with simplicity.

Obsidian Weekly 2025-06-22：Achieve simplicity through complexity; master complexity with simplicity.

Abstract

Statistical time: 2025-06-15 21:00 ~ 2025-06-22 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 v0.11.8

This update mostly reverts back to the old highlighter behavior (before 0.11.6) due to some issues with the new approach.

Improvements

• Localization for shortcuts
• Fix editing custom providers
• Fix remove_attr does not remove the whole attribute if it includes spaces
• Upgraded to Defuddle 0.6.4 with fixes for Substack and other sites
• Fixes for locale error in Safari

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

Text Autocomplete By Christ Degni

Autocomplete text to type more efficiently.
English is the only supported language at the moment

CJK Count By vrabe

A word counter that only counts Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) characters.

Tree Diagram By limpido

Convert directory structure formatted in tab-indented text to a tree diagram.

Move Files By Nitish Khurana

Moves all the files linked to a open md file to a folder and updates the link in md file.

Todo.txt Mode By rioskit

Support for todo. txt file format with syntax highlighting and task management.

Layout Manager By Lucy Dryaeva

Manage layouts with context. Let you automatically have different setups based on the file/path you open.

Streams By Floyd

Create and manage multiple Daily Note streams.

Log Keeper By James Sonneveld

When the content of a note changes within a vault, a new time stamp is generated or an original time stamp is edited, depending on the settings. This log is then added to a note’s YAML property.

LLM docs By Shane Lamb

Simple LLM (AI chat) client using pure markdown documents.

LaTeX Math By Zarstensen

Evaluate, solve and much more within LaTeX blocks using Sympy.

Google Contacts By aleksejs1

Synchronize your Google Contacts with separate contact-notes.

Custom Selected Word Count By banisterious

Provides advanced word counting features for selected text across all view modes. Goes beyond basic word counting with customizable path exclusion, and more.

Folder Filelist By Bill Anderson

Create and maintain a list of wikilinks to files in specified folders.

Ace Code Editor By _RavenHogWarts_c

An enhanced code editor using Ace editor, providing syntax highlighting, code folding, and other advanced editing features.

Updates

Quickadd v1.15.0 By Christian B.B.Houmann

• New Features
  • Enhanced VDATE Variables with Reusable Dates
    • You can now enter a date once and format it multiple times in different ways! This is perfect for creating hierarchical folder structures or using the same date in different formats throughout your template.
  • Canvas Template Support
    • QuickAdd now fully supports canvas templates! Create new canvas files from canvas templates with all the power of QuickAdd’s formatting system.
      • Set a canvas template path (e.g., Templates/canvas-template.canvas)
      • New files automatically get the .canvas extension
  • Default Values for VALUE Variables
    • Specify fallback values for input prompts that users can accept by pressing Enter. Great for creating templates with sensible defaults!
    • Syntax: {{VALUE:variableName|defaultValue}}
    • Examples:
      • {{VALUE:status|draft}} - Uses “draft” if no input provided
      • {{VALUE:priority|medium}} - Default priority of “medium”
      • {{VALUE:assignee|Unassigned}} - Falls back to “Unassigned”
  • Advanced Field Suggestions
    • The {{FIELD}} syntax now supports powerful filtering options for more precise value suggestions:
      • Filter by location:
        • {{FIELD:status|folder:Projects}} - Only from Projects folder
        • {{FIELD:priority|tag:active|tag:work}} - Only from notes with both tags
      • Exclude unwanted content:
        • {{FIELD:category|exclude-folder:Archive}}
        • {{FIELD:type|exclude-tag:draft}}
      • Smart defaults:
        • {{FIELD:assignee|default:Unassigned}}
        • {{FIELD:status|default:Todo|default-always:true}}
      • Performance: Integrates with Dataview API when available for faster queries!
  • Comma Support in VDATE Formats
    Popular date formats with commas now work perfectly:
    - {{VDATE:date,MMM D, YYYY}} → “Jun 25, 2025”
    - {{VDATE:date,dddd, MMMM D, YYYY}} → “Wednesday, June 25, 2025”
  • Improve live preview for format syntax
• Bug Fixes
  • Undefined Variables Now Return Empty Strings
    • Previously, {{VALUE}} variables would show the literal text “undefined” when left empty. Now they correctly return empty strings, keeping undefined out of your notes.
  • Fixed Double Newline Handling
    • The \\n\\n escape sequence now correctly creates two newlines instead of being incorrectly processed.
  • VDATE Improvements
    • Fixed infinite loop when typing commas in VDATE syntax
    • Added clear error messages when Natural Language Dates plugin is missing
    • Better runtime error handling for VDATE processing
    • Improve UpdateModal text overflow handling
• Developer Improvements
  • npm Build Support
    • The codebase no longer relies on global app variables, making it buildable with both npm and bun. This opens up contributions to developers who prefer npm over bun.
  • Enhanced Documentation
    • Major documentation overhaul with improved content, modern design, and better framework integration.
      • Take a look!

Hinote 0.4.3 By Kai

• Mobile experience optimization
  • Add Enter key to the annotation input box for line breaks, and add a save button;
  • Highlight the file list and split the card view in the main view;
  • HiCard splits learning groups and flashcards;
  • Optimize the stretching issue of the highlight widget in the editor;
• Optimize the search function, retaining search keywords in all documents;
• Add global search, which can search all content by using the prefix all: in the right sidebar;
• Search results can be directly dragged into the document and AI dialogue boxes.

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.

Media Extended v4 Beta + ZotLit Status Update

Media Extended v4 Beta

• Complete rewrite with redesigned adaptive player interface,
• New features: Screenshot clipping tool, interactive transcript view (.srt/.vtt/.ass support),
• Breaking changes: Website player deprecated, YouTube iframe still supported,
• License change: v4 releases will be closed source (v3 remains MIT open source),
• v4 beta available via BRAT (aidenlx/media-extended),

For details about beta testing, see: https://mx.pkmer.net/docs/v4

ZotLit Status

• Major database refactoring completed,
• More reliable Zotero integration coming soon,
• Remains fully open source with community contributions welcome

Task genius has been updated to v9.0.4

Shiny new things

All-new Project and Workflow Management

We’ve rebuilt the underlying logic for tasks, projects, and contexts to introduce powerful workflow management features. You can now:

• Folder as Project: Directly manage folders as projects.
• Project Configuration: Configure all project-related settings in one place within the project settings.
• Workflows: Define clear workflow stages for your projects and easily move tasks between them.

Timeline Sidebar View

Introducing a brand new Timeline view in the sidebar, allowing you to visualize and plan your schedule more intuitively.

File and Canvas Task Indexing

You can now track an entire note file or Canvas as a single task, greatly expanding the boundaries of task management. Relevant metadata is automatically indexed from the file.

Matrix View (Eisenhower Matrix)

Introducing the new Matrix view based on the Eisenhower Matrix methodology, where you can organize and prioritize your tasks across four quadrants: Urgent & Important, Not Urgent & Important, Urgent & Not Important, and Not Urgent & Not Important. Tasks can be dragged and dropped between quadrants for intuitive priority management.

Features

• ICS Calendar Subscription: Support for subscribing to external calendars via the ics format.
• Quick Capture to Daily Note: Support for quickly capturing ideas to your daily note, with the ability to preview the target file.
• Hide Weekends in Calendar View: You can now choose to hide weekends in the calendar or forecast view for a more focused perspective.

Improvements

• Performance Optimization: Significantly improved performance when handling a large number of calendar events.
• Settings UI: A complete refresh and optimization of the style and user experience of the settings page.
• Icon Update: Updated with all-new icons designed by @jsmorabito. Thanks to our community for the contribution!
• Internationalization: Updated and completed relevant translations.

Fixes

• Workflow: Fixed an issue where tasks could not be moved to the next stage and a sub-stage could not be completed.
• Task Inheritance: Fixed a bug where tasks did not correctly inherit metadata from their project.
• Dataview Parsing: Fixed an issue where dataview keys were not parsed correctly.
• Inline Editor: Fixed a bug where updating task metadata was not possible using the inline editor in the forecast view.
• View Filtering: Fixed an issue where completed tasks were not correctly hidden in the Task Genius sidebar view.
• Daily Habits: Fixed incorrect handling of the creation day for daily habits.

Thino has been updated to v2.7.16

• Feat
  • support filter images by colors in the gallery view
  • [pro] better service for API

Appearance

Iridium Theme By kyffa

Radiance Theme By JabariD

A sleek, modern Obsidian theme inspired by the Raycast macOS application. This theme provides a clean, minimalist interface with carefully crafted UI elements and a signature red accent color that gives your notes a distinctive and professional appearance.

SpectrumPlus Theme By João Ribeiro

A fork of the Spectrum Theme, maintained independently with bug fixes, new features, and improvements since the original author is no longer maintaining it. C