Obsidian Weekly 2025-01-19：Easier Input, More Versatile Drawing

Obsidian Weekly 2025-01-19：Easier Input, More Versatile Drawing

Abstract

Statistical time: 2025-01-12 21:00 ~ 2025-01-19 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

New Filename By Amin Sennour

Configure a new default filename (instead of “Undefined”). You can also leave the setting blank to have the plugin autoamtically generate a UUID instead.

External Rename Handler By mnaoumov

Handles renames made outside of the app.

Type Chinese Like English By Hwenyi

No need to switch input methods—simply type pinyin in English mode to convert it into Chinese characters and mathematical formulas.
This plugin leverages AI large language models to provide accurate and fast conversion directly within your Obsidian editor. It’s ideal for users who prefer to avoid mastering complex LaTeX syntax or are frustrated by frequent input method switching, enabling quick and seamless math formula input without distractions.

Christmas By MatseVH

Brings Christmas spirit to your editor by showing the countdown to Christmas.

Circuit Sketcher By Code Forge Temple

Draw circuits on a canvas using circuit-sketcher-core.

Tencent COS for Imgur By bobostudio

This is an image upload plugin for Obsidian that automatically uploads images in your notes to Tencent Cloud COS Object Storage, enabling cloud storage and management of images.

Hoarder Sync By Jordan Hofker

Sync your Hoarder bookmarks.

Confluence Space Sync By Pwnyprod

Sync entire Confluence spaces in your Vault.

Clojure Plugin Host By Vladimir “farcaller” Pouzanov

A Clojure plugin host, allowing the creation of simple Clojure-based plugins right inside the editor.

MoreDraw By webceoboy2011

A infinite canvas whiteboard with ai to draw flowchart ,mind map and other diagram.

Publish to Discourse By woodchen

Post notes to the Discourse forum.

Local Any Files By ShermanTsang

A powerful Obsidian plugin that helps you extractExternalLinks,downloadFileLocally and replaceExternalLinks.
It supports a wide range of file types and provides flexible configuration options for organizing your attachments.

KoReader Highlight Importer By Tahsin Kocaman

This plugin imports highlights from KoReader into Obsidian notes. It scans for .sdr directories, parses Lua metadata files, and saves highlights into Markdown files within Obsidian.

Simple Disguise By slow-groovin

Disguise/obscure/hide the content in a very simple way. Prevent your editing content from being seeing clearly too easily by others passing by in public spaces.

Syncthing status icon By Diego Viero

Displas a status icon inside the status bar showing whether syncthing is running locally or not.

Dynamic Outline By theopavlove

Adds a customizable GitHub-like floating table of contents.

AI-AnkiSync By goev

Detects flashcards in your notes, enhances the content using a language model, and syncs them with Anki via AnkiConnect. The AI enhancement allows users to input brief keywords, automating the expansion and formatting of flashcards, which speeds up the creation process.

BuJo Bullets By Will Olson

Alternate checkbox types to support Bullet Journal bullets.

Updates

Pixel Banner v2.20.3 By Justin Parker

• v2.20.0
  • Added
    • Add emoji overlays to your banners
      • Customize icon appearance:
      • Size (10-200px)
      • Position (left/right alignment)
      • Opacity (0-100%)
      • Color (any CSS color)
      • Background color (any CSS color or transparent)
      • Padding (spacing around the icon)
      • Border radius (rounded corners)
      • Vertical offset (adjust up/down position)
    • Set icons in multiple ways:
      • Click the ⭐ button on any banner to choose an icon
      • Set via frontmatter using banner-icon field (or your custom field name)
      • Configure default icon settings globally
      • Set per-folder icon settings
      • Icons persist across banner image changes and refreshes
      • Icons work with all banner types (API images, local images, URLs)
      • Icons appear in both edit and preview modes
      • Icons maintain their position relative to banner height
  • Updated
    • Removed the “fade-in” animation from banner images
• v2.20.1
• Updated
  • replaced icon-padding with icon-padding-x and icon-padding-y for more granular control
• Fixed
  • Resolved issue with the banner updating while editing a note’s content (causing the banner to flicker)
  • Resolved issue with the banner icon not being preserved when scrolling to the bottom of a note
• v2.20.2
  • Added
    • Added banner-fade-in-animation-duration general setting to control the duration of the fade in animation for the banner image
• v2.20.3
  • Added
    • Added font weight option to the banner icon settings (general, folder images, and frontmatter)
  • Fixed
    • Fixed issue with a large gap appearing between the banner and the note content when using the hide embedded note banners setting

Vertical Tabs v0.14.0 By oxdc

• What’s New
  • Enhanced Keyboard Tab Switching: When using Ctrl/Cmd + 1-9 to switch between tabs, Vertical Tabs now displays tab indices. For more than 10 tabs, use Ctrl/Cmd + ←/→ to offset indices seamlessly. (See the demo video below)
  • Tab Preview: Preview tabs by hovering over them while holding the Ctrl/Cmd key.
• Improvements
  • Expanded Tab Deduplication Options: Configure whether to deduplicate popup tabs in additional windows and sidebar tabs.
  • Side-by-Side Split View Compatibility: Tab deduplication now works in split views, with the option to deduplicate tabs within the same group only.
  • New Command to manually deduplicate tabs.
  • Automatic Reveal of Hidden Active Tabs: Active tabs hidden during deduplication are now automatically revealed.
  • Refined Ephemeral Tabs Algorithm: Tabs are now marked as non-ephemeral when opened via double-click or the Quick Switcher.
  • Customizable Navigation Strategies: Easily copy and tweak existing presets to create your own tab navigation strategy.
  • Improved UX: Added safeguard margins to prevent accidental tab closures.
  • Enhanced Mobile Experience:
    • Tab Editing Mode now automatically disables when collapsing the drawer.
    • Added an option to always display all control buttons on mobile for better usability.
• Bug Fixes
  • Resolved a rare crash issue in Vertical Tabs.
  • Fixed UI impairments in Background Mode after relaunching Obsidian.
  • Corrected the “Show active tabs only” option not persisting after reopening Vertical Tabs.
  • Addressed inaccessible sidebar toggles in Zen Mode on iPad.
  • Fixed misaligned UI elements on Windows.
  • Prevented ephemeral states from resetting after moving or deduplicating tabs.
  • Fixed inconsistent tab order changes in certain scenarios.
  • Ensured tab deduplication triggers correctly when settings are changed.

Theme Controller v1.0.4 By Binaris

• Now working with Mobile!
• Small fix to default theme controller

List Modified v3.4.0 By Francis Kafieh

Added a setting to exclude user-provided filetypes from deleted notes. This is mostly useful if other plugins/sync services create files with a certain extension. Using this setting can help clean up your note lists.

Advanced Canvas v3.4.0 By Developer-Mike

Most important changes since 3.0.1

• Massive performance improvements
• Added “Quicksettings” - Change all the settings using a command/modal
• Added “Focus Mode” to blur all nodes except the selected one
• Added the long requested node auto resizing feature
• Improved the “Presentation Mode”
• Added Hot-Reloading for portals
• Improved the square edge pathfinding method
• Added automatic repairing of corrupted .canvas files
• Made the new style menu optional - because of your feedback
• Improved version control compatibility
• And many bugfixes of course

ChatGPTMD v1.6.0 By Bram Adams

• Fixes create new chat from template works now everywhere
• Updates dependencies and fix streaming from gpt-4 models
• Adds .prettierrc respecting current settings
• Fixes TS build issues
• Updates dependencies
• Shows model name in the notification
• Removes maintainer search message
• Introduces MVC Architecture
• Fixes openAI config keys
• Enables manual title inference
• Uses gpt-4o-mini as default model
• Fixes frontmatter usage from settings
• Deprecates max tokens and system command

Meta Bind v1.3.1 By Moritz Jung

• 1.3.0
  • New Features
    • Added a tooltip to error indicators
    • Added modifier support for button clicks
    • Middle-clicking on buttons will open files in a new tab for any action that opens files
    • Added a button action to run a templater file without creating a new note (thanks reply2za)
    • Added an option named backgroundImage to specify a background image for buttons
    • Added an option named cssStyles to specify inline CSS styles for a button
    • Image view fields now work with URLs
    • Added a data attribute to input fields that reflects their internal value
  • Changes
    • Updated image suggester styling and allowed it as an inline input field
    • Multiple small improvements to the button builder
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed markdown parser not handling block references in links correctly
    • Fixed addLabels not working for the progressBar input (thanks Cube707)
    • Fixed the defaultValue argument having no effect on the number input field
    • Fixed the meta bind table sometimes not correctly unloading
  • Misc
    • Internal improvements to input and view fields
    • Canary releases are now marked as prereleases on GitHub
• 1.3.1
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed the new backgroundImage and cssStyles button options not working
    • Fixed the open action not being able to open plain file paths

Iconic v1.1.0 By Holo

• New features
  • The new Rulebook lets you design your own rules to automatically set icons
    • Each rule has a list of conditions you can fully customize, so they can be as powerful or as simple as you want
    • Target your notes by their name, extension, parent folder, headings and links inside them, tags, properties, date created or modified, the current time of day, and even the icons & colors you’ve already set
    • See the updated README for a quick guide to using the Rulebook
  • Support for tag icons 
    • Customize your tags from the Tags sidebar, from a tags property, or from hashtags directly inside the editor
    • Hashtags in reading mode: Support icons & colors
    • Hashtags in editing mode: Currently support colors only
  • Support for window control icons on Windows & Linux
    • Ever wanted to customize your minimize/maximize/close buttons? Now you can!
    • You can pick separate icons for the Maximize and Restore down buttons, too
  • Icon picker enhancements
    • Now supports Emoji 16.0 on compatible devices
    • You can now mix icons and emojis in your search results
    • (Mobile) You can finally preview icon names by long-touching them in your search results
  • New command and ribbon icon: Open rulebook
  • New command: Change icon of the current file
• Bugfixes
  • Menus with Change/Remove actions should no longer bug out into dozens of duplicate actions
  • Homepage plugin: Settings icon no longer loses its customizability after opening a workspace
  • Ribbon Divider plugin: Ribbon dividers now work as expected
    • Known bug: You can currently assign icons to dividers, but this doesn’t work (and isn’t supposed to)
• Visual fixes
  • More icon names are now properly capitalized, including acronyms like CCTV, CPU, DNA, HDMI, ID, JSON, NFC, PC, QR, RSS, XML and proper nouns like Creative Commons, Gantt, Git, GitHub, GitLab, LinkedIn, Mac, Indian, Japanese, Russian, and Swiss
  • Tab menus now position the Change/Remove actions closer to the top
  • Tabs without an icon are now displayed correctly when using horizontally split panes
  • Themes that use named CSS colors like goldenrod and rebeccapurple are now supported
  • Themes with a custom cursor for --cursor-link are now respected when hovering over clickable icons
  • (Mobile) The color picker bubble should now appear perfectly circular on all phones

Appearance

Ukiyo Theme By kinmury, Technerium

Ease your eyes while using this amazing app, reducing the unnecessary empty spaces from UI elements so that you can have more room for the important stuff: your notes.

Minimal Dracula Theme By Druxorey

Inspired by the Dracula color palette, it provides a carefully organized editing experience and caters to those who prefer the raw editing mode over live preview. The combination of gray and blue tones creates an attractive aesthetic for your notes and documents.