Obsidian Weekly 2025-05-11：Card layouts and new chart solutions & Manage your life

Obsidian Weekly 2025-05-11：Card layouts and new chart solutions & Manage your life

Abstract

Statistical time: 2025-05-04 21:00 ~ 2025-05-11 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

Backlink Settings By calvinwyoung

Allow users to save preferred settings for the backlinks / “Linked mentions” pane at the bottom of notes.

Custom Commands By Staaaaaaaaaan

Create custom commands to be executed in the command palette, and by hotkey. Currently supports opening specific notes, creating notes, inserting snippets, and executing sequences of commands.

Easy Keep View By @tazihad

Mimic the Google Keep interface, allowing you to view and manage your notes with image thumbnails and excerpts.

Checkbox SortBy mattang687

Automatically moves completed checkboxes to the end of the list

Inline Callouts By @gapmiss

Add inline callouts/badges/icons to notes.

Byte Field Diagrams By natri0

Adds support for byte-field diagrams.

DataCards By Sophokles187

Transform Dataview query results into visually appealing, customizable card layouts.

Title-Only Tab By tristone13th

Set tab name to the value for title attribute in the YAML frontmatter for Jekyll users.

Note Status By Aleix Soler

Organize notes with customizable statuses. Track progress through an intuitive status pane, dropdown selector, and file explorer integration.

Another Name By Jiyuan Wang

Add an another name after your inline title!

LawList: Custom List Styles By Willem Schlieter

Customise the style of ordered lists in Edit Mode and Read Mode.

Water Tracker By Luigi Cerone

Keep track of how much water you drunk.

Reactive Notes By Elias Noesis

Transform your Obsidian vault into a reactive computational environment. ReactiveNotes seamlessly integrates React’s component ecosystem with Obsidian’s powerful note-taking capabilities, enabling dynamic, interactive documents that evolve with your thoughts.

Draw Steel Retainer By Martin Dampier

Provides Director facing sidebar tools for the TTRPG Draw Steel.

VCF Contacts By Roland Broekema

With this plugin, you can easily organize and manage your contacts within Obsidian. Simply create a note within the contacts folder and use the plugin’s features to quickly add to, search, link and sort through your contacts. Contacts plugin also helps you to organize, import, and export to for example email clients or google contacts, remember birthdays and more.

Rainbow-Colored Sidebar By Kevin Woblick

Automatically color your sidebar like a rainbow. No configuration needed.

Limitless Lifelogs By Maclean Dunkin

Sync your Limitless AI lifelog entries.

YTSummarizer By Arda Kalaycı

Fetch YouTube video transcripts and generate summaries using OpenAI models.

Textfresser By clockblocker

Building your a personal German dictionary, based on the contexts in the German texts, that you have read.

aDHL By tine-schreibt

Create pretty static highlighters from search or regEx. Group by tag and set commands for toggling. Based on Dynamic Highlights. Works well with Highlightr.

Updates

Querydash v1.0.6 By lwx

Feat: add dark theme

Sentence Rhythm v0.2.0 By Adam Fletcher

• Add text color setting to provide better support for dark mode
• Improve support for logographic languages

Better Plugins Manager v0.2.0 By zero

• Added
  • More filter criteria
  • Separated style card groups
  • Restart plugin function for individual plugins
  • Do not close pages when opening settings
  • Click note icon to open note
  • Hide plugin functionality
  • Copy ID function
• Optimized
  • Right-click menu ordering
• Fixed
  • Bug when accessing project URLs
  • Bug showing delay settings when delayed start is disabled
  • Bug where style card groups do not refresh when changing language
  • Bug where filters display nothing

Any Block v3.3.0 path-1 By LincZero

• ⚠️BREAKCHANGE
  • Some renaming
    • The quote handler is renamed to addQuote. The original one is no longer to add the quote block, but to add the quote block of the callout (⚠️This item is mandatory; other suggestions)
    • X->x, Xcode -> xCode, Xquote->xQuote
  • The warehouse name was modified and the address of the online interaction website was changed
• Feat
  • enhance the refresh module (⚠️ beta, risk, you can find data.json in the plugin file and modify "enhance_refresh_time": 0, to disable this feature)
    Impact: addClass(ab-super-width), node style, waterfall layout of cards 
  • new processors: addList, xList, code2List, region2indent
  • new processor: list2pumlActivityDiagramText, list2pumlActivityDiagram
  • Simplify the callout syntax to reduce conflicts between the ab syntax and the mdit syntax. New alias: (info|note|warning|caution|attention|error|danger|tip|hint|example|abstract|summary|tldr|quote|cite|todo|success|c heck|done)
• Enhance
  • cursor delay issue when editing anyblock. The experience is better when using the cursor to cut in and out of anyblock blocks 
  • app version ::: selector enhancement
  • The optimization of the column list2lt dir processor, including: click area, dom structure, all collapse/expand button
  • Some click interaction operations of the app/mdit version have been added
  • The document was refactored using ‘mditABDemo’ to make the source code of the document more concise
• Fix
  • Some bugs in the new version of vuepress have been resolved
  • Fixed through the enhanced refresh module
  • trs exTable dom struct error, and the bugs it causes
• Refactor
  • The code framework was restructured, and the monorepo, workflow and release process were changed
  • Restructure the MarkdownIt sub-project. The old package of the MarkdownIt sub-project has been abandoned and changed to markdown-it-any-block
  • The dom structure change of list2lt dir
• Patch 2025-05-11
  • fix: xQuote invalid
  • feat: add callout xxx processor
  • feat: add mdit2code processor

Easy Copy v1.2.2 By Moy

• New Settings
  • If there is no content to copy at the cursor position, automatically add a Block ID and copy the link pointing to this Block (this option is turned off by default, you need to manually enable it in the plugin settings)
  • You can also choose to manually enter a Block ID
• Feature
  • Supports automatic generation of block link display text—say goodbye to meaningless random numbers!
    • Note: If manual input is not enabled, the block ID itself will still be a random number, but the copied link text will become more readable
    • ⚠️ Automatic summary generation may have some judgment errors. If you encounter any issues, please feel free to report them in Issues
    • Support generating block links for codeblock and Callout
• Fix
  • Corrected the block link range determination error in lists
  • Allowed manual input of spaces (which will be automatically converted)

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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.

Thino has been updated to v2.7.10

• Feat
  • support gallery view for images
• Fix
  • when word count is 0, it should not be checked

Task Genius has been updated to v8.6.5

V8.6.0

Feat

• feat: support sort command. docs
  • feat: support sort criteria settings
• feat: support relative time display for list item in task genius view. docs
• feat: support show-on heading filter for progressbar. docs
• feat: support only show task with date (eg., has due date, start date, or is recurring)
  • Support hasDate, noDate or any
• feat: support first day of week for forecast view. docs
• feat: ignore tasks based on heading or focus tasks based on heading. docs
• feat: support sort tasks for view. docs

Improvement

• improve: add more test cases for sort command
• improve: support better confirm modal
• style: update project badge style
• improve: show all tasks when switch to tree view of tasks
• improve: support every month on the 5th for recurrence task

Fix

• fix: task sorter is not working
• fix: conflict with dataview plugin when renderring progressbar in read mode
• fix: duplicate tag issue when complete recurrence task
• fix: cannot show setting for event view correctly
• fix: tree item not showing correctly in some views
• fix: should use scheduled date to calculate next date if there is no due date

Chore

• chore: update test cases for sort command
• chore: update the docs
• chore: update description for tags in detail edit component

What’s Changed

• Enhance functionality and improve Ukrainian translations

V8.6.3

Feat

• feat: support task gutter editor. docs

Improvement

• improve: task in code block will not be recognized as task anymore

Fix

• fix: path exclude filter and also tag exclude filter are not working

V8.6.4

Fix

fix: cannot update date of task multi times when call popover on the task gutter

V8.6.5

Fix

• fix: should respect the basic setting of view
• fix: recurrence not creating the new due date
• fix: should not duplicate date when create new reward item

Chore

• chore: update compatibility docs

Appearance

Marathon Theme By Spekulucius

Hojicha Theme By pr0methevs

Immerse your mind in the warm, earthy tones of Hōjicha, a handcrafted Obsidian theme inspired by the roasted elegance of Japanese green tea.
Like its namesake, this theme brings a delicate balance of simplicity and depth — perfect for focused thinking and mindful writing.

Soli Deo Gloria Theme By agodlyman

Draw out the beauty in old sacred texts and bring it into a modern format. The design incorporates elements inspired by the intricate detail and flowing script found in illuminated manuscripts. Expect a clean, uncluttered interface that prioritizes readability and focuses on enhancing your Obsidian note-taking experience.

Myst Theme By mulder3062

Quillcode Theme By theaayushpatel

Quillcode exists as a theme dedicated to people who engage logically and verbally at the same level since it serves writers who pen out thoughts before making them exact. The theme reflects the essence of peaceful mental processing along with nocturnal writing tasks alongside the long-standing relationship between thought-driven work and structured organization. Writers and coders have found a common ground in this environment that allows them to annotate their thoughts with order while seeking beauty in well-placed language.

RetroOS 98 Theme By ThePharaohArt

Experience the Windows 95/98 Feel in Obisidian, a faithful recreation of the Win98 OS style. Total support of light/dark mode, support tablet and phone views.

Ribbons Theme By ddspog

Offer a rich, modular, and customizable visual experience.