Obsidian Weekly 2025-06-29：Obsidian v1.9.4 Sneak Peek! Bases Cards View Makes a Grand Debut!

Obsidian Weekly 2025-06-29：Obsidian v1.9.4 Sneak Peek! Bases Cards View Makes a Grand Debut!

Abstract

Statistical time: 2025-06-22 21:00 ~ 2025-06-29 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 v1.9.4 catalyst is now available!

v1.9.3 Desktop

Improvements

• Changes to cssclasses, aliases, and tags properties:
  • Invalid values will no longer be hidden in Bases and the property editor.
  • String values are now accepted as valid values for these properties. For example: tags: 'my-tag' is no longer marked as invalid. Invalid property values, such as tags: 'tag1, tag2' will now be visible in the property editor and marked as invalid.
  • In the “Format converter” core plugin, there is a new option to fix any incorrectly formatted aliases, tags, and cssclasses in your vault. It will also migrate your old alias, tag, and cssclass properties to the new format.
• Property editor is now available inside page preview and Canvas.
• Right-clicking a folder in the file titlebar now shows the folder menu.
• Improvements to the display of an “unknown” tab. Added option to close all unknown tabs.
• Page preview: Added button to open preview in current tab.
• When there is not enough room to display the whole path in the titlebar, the folders will be truncated before the file name.

Bases

• Added a new “Cards” view layout. Display your files in a grid, and optionally assign a cover image to each file.
• Added “New item” toolbar button to automatically create a file that matches the filters of the current view.
• Added “Sort” toolbar menu. Views can now be sorted by properties not visible in the current view.
• Added a new “duration” type. You can use this to display the difference between dates (e.g. note.release_date - today()).
• Added Date#relative() to see when a date was relative to now.
• date() now handles timestamps in the format YYYYMMDD and YYYYMMDDHHmm.
• Formulas: Fixed bug where multiple divisions would not work (e.g. 10 / 5 / 2).
• Formulas now support inequality comparisons with strings (e.g. date > "YYYY-MM-DD")
• Formulas: link() can now be used with external links.
• Formulas: Fixed hasLink() not resolving links with subpaths (e.g. file#heading)
• Infinity is now rendered as ∞.
• Fixed issues with reading and writing properties when they have different cases in different files (e.g. Property vs property).
• Bases now respects “Excluded files” setting.
• Table: Fixed sort arrows appearing in the wrong direction.
• Table: Improved support for RTL languages.
• Table: Improved sort behavior of links, URLs, durations, and dates.
• Table: Right-click on the file name now shows “Delete file” menu option.
• group_by has been renamed to groupBy. This is still a placeholder for grouping functionality that will be added later.

No longer broken

• Search: Fixed “tag:” results not appearing if the “tags” property has any capital letters in the property name (e.g. “Tags”)
• PDF: Fixed regression in PDF view where some text selections cannot be copied.
• Fixed regression where property editor would display unknown property values as “text” properties.
• Fixed bug where closing a tab while hovering over the “link” icon would not cause the link highlight to get removed.
• Canvas: Fixed “New group” not selecting the label text by default.
• “Export to PDF” no longer causes the screen to briefly flash white in dark mode.
• Improved the rendering of codeblocks inside quoteblocks.

v1.9.3 Mobile

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.9.3.

• Graph view: Dragging force sliders will no longer cause sidebars to slide open.

v1.9.4 Desktop

Improvements

Bases

• Cards: Added new “Card size” slider to view options.
• Table: Added new “Row height” selection to view options.
• Added new file.embeds property which returns a list of all embeds (i.e. ![[file]]) found in the file.
• Boolean values now always render as a checkbox. The checkbox() function has been removed.
• “Copy to clipboard” and “Export CSV” are now available for all view formats.
• New image() function for rendering images inline.

No longer broken

• Page preview no longer hides when interacting with a context menu inside it.
• Fixed issue where properties would show as their assigned property type even if the underlying data is not compatible.
• Fixed bug where “Export PDF” would only display the first page.

Bases

• Fixed issue with Image property not working if file path contained any special characters (e.g. apostrophe).
• View menu and Filter menu now scroll if there is not enough room on screen.
• Fixed Card view crashing when hiding all properties from view.
• Disabling Bases plugin and re-enabling it no longer reports errors.
• “New item” menu now automatically adds a property if there is a filter designating that the property is not empty.
• Fixed bug where formulas would silently fail if the formula had trailing whitespace.
• Links now display header or block ID if there is one.
• Cards: Fixed links not working on click.
• Improved layout of the results menu.
• Files created from the toolbar now respect the default file location.
• Date.relative() is now sorted according to time.

v1.9.4 Mobile

Improvements

• Improvements to the card layout on mobile.
• The ”+” button in the navbar now opens a new tab.

No longer broken

• Scrubbing the timeline on an audio embed no longer triggers the sidebars opening.

Plugin News

Community Plugins

New

Gyazo Viewer By Helpfeel Inc.

Display your Gyazo captures and embed them into your notes.

Quartz Syncer By Emile Bangma

Manage and publish your notes to Quartz, the fast, batteries-included static-site generator.

Smart Link Formatter By ccmdi

Automatically formats pasted links with metadata, with explicit support for YouTube.

Banyan By ratiger

A homepage to browse, organize, and access notes in card form easily with multi-tag filtering.

Simple Banner By Sandro Ducceschi

Visually enhance your notes with a customizable banner. Supports icons and time/date display.

Updates

CSV Lite v1.1.0 By Jay Bridge

• What’s New
  • Simply right-click on any cell to bring up the new context menu, giving you the power to:
    • Insert Columns: Instantly add new columns to the left or right.
    • Delete Columns: Remove an entire column with a single click.
    • Move Columns: Effortlessly shift columns left or right to rearrange your layout.
    • (Row Actions are supported too!): Perform the same insert, delete, and move actions on rows.

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.

FadeLine By Vlad3Design

A focus-enhancing Obsidian plugin designed to help you concentrate on your current line while maintaining context of surrounding content. Perfect for writers, developers, students, and anyone who values deep focus.

MindfulDo By Vlad3Design

A calm, beautiful, and feature-rich todo list for Obsidian that helps you stay organized without stress.

Pretty properties By anareaty

Make metadata block on the top of the file more visually appealing with images and colors.

• Cover image
  • Add image to the left of metadata block to save space in the note. Works great for book notes, people profiles etc.You can change the shape and size of the image using cssclasses.
• Banner
  • You can add simple banners to your notes. To do so add the link to the “banner”property the same way as withcover.
• Hide properties
  • If you have many properties in the note, you may want to hide some of them while keeping the others visible. This plugin makes it easy.
• Colorful list properties
  • You can make you list properties stand out by assigning each item their own color. Right-click on the item pill to select color. You can also chose “none” to make the pill background transparent or reset it to default. Only basic theme colors are supported for now.
• Progress-bars
  • Add simple progress-bar to any number property.