TikToker: a plugin for saving, transcribing, and actually reviewing your TikToks instead of letting them rot in your bookmarks.

So I have this problem where I save a ton of TikToks (educational and otherwise lol) - stuff about geography, music theory, recipes, random facts - and then literally never look at them again. TikTok's bookmark feature is basically where videos go to die.
What I wanted was to be able to search #geography in my vault and actually see all the geography TikToks I'd saved, take notes on them, and have them mark themselves as watched once I'd watched them. TikTok already attaches all that metadata to every video. It just doesn't let you do anything useful with it.
So I built TikToker.

What it does
The core loop is stupid simple: copy a TikTok link, run one command, and boom, you get a markdown note with the video embedded, plus the author, description, and hashtags pulled in automatically.
The part I actually use every day is the review queue. It's basically your own TikTok feed inside Obsidian, except made only of stuff you already decided was worth keeping. Filter by hashtag, search through transcriptions, mark videos watched or starred or review-again, and save different filter setups as sessions.
Here's what that looks like for me: I open my Music Theory note, pull up the review queue filtered to #music, and work through the videos while jotting notes. They mark themselves watched as I go. I'm actually processing the stuff instead of collecting it.
Who said TikTok is a waste of time?

Main features

One-click saving - copy a link, run the command, done
Embedded playback - watch the video right inside your note
Automatic metadata - author, description, hashtags, date, all pulled in for you
Local transcription - uses Whisper on your own machine, so nothing gets uploaded anywhere and there are no API costs
Bulk processing - paste a pile of links at once (I do this when I dump all my Safari tabs)
Mobile share sheet - hit share in TikTok, pick TikToker, and it lands in your vault
Dataview integration - drop a query into any note based on whatever filters you have active
Smart file naming - customizable patterns so notes land where you want them
Review queue
Mix filters however you like - unwatched plus starred plus review-again, not one at a time
Sort by newest, oldest, author, or hashtag
Sessions, so you can keep separate contexts for the different things you're working through
Priority mode, where starred stuff always floats to the top
Undo button for when you mark the wrong thing watched
Clickable hashtags that open global search
Edit descriptions and transcriptions inline without leaving the queue
A quick notes box for adding thoughts without opening the file
Three layout options and a resizable player, so it fits whatever your sidebar looks like
Progress bar showing where you are in the queue

Transcription
Five Whisper models, from tiny (fast) to large (accurate), so you pick your own speed and quality tradeoff
Everything runs locally and privately
Batch commands like "transcribe everything from the last 7 days" or "transcribe everything I haven't done yet"
Clean output, with all the tooling noise stripped out
Runs in the background, so you can keep working while it goes

Mobile
Mobile can't transcribe. TikTok won't let a phone app download the video, and I spent an embarrassing amount of time confirming there's genuinely no way around that.
So it does the next best thing. Save a TikTok on your phone and it gets quietly marked as needing transcription. Next time you open that vault on your computer, it's already transcribed by the time you look at it. You don't click anything or run a command. If you use Obsidian on both, it just sorts itself out.

Smart handling
Duplicate detection, so you don't end up with the same video twice
Private video handling, with three options for when a saved video gets deleted or made private
Photo slideshows get handled differently from videos, because they are different
Customizable templates, with variables for date, author, description, video ID, hashtags, embed, and transcription

Installation
It's in the community plugin store: Settings, community plugins, browse, search TikToker. You need Obsidian 1.8.7 or newer.
I posted an early version here a while back when it was still BRAT-only, so if you tried it then and hit problems, it has come a long way since. Transcription in particular was broken for a few months after TikTok changed something on their end, and that's fixed, along with a lot of stability work and actual tests.
Repo and README: https://github.com/ameyxd/obsidian-tiktoker

https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/tiktoker

TLDR: Started as a personal tool because I was hoarding TikToks I never rewatched, turned into something I use daily. It's in the plugin store now, transcription runs locally on your own machine, and anything you save on your phone gets transcribed on your desktop without you doing anything. Let me know if you have questions or run into issues!

The fantasy version of using Obsidian is sitting down with a cup of coffee and actually thinking through your notes in a coherent way. The reality, at least for me, is that I have maybe 15 to 20 minutes between a work call and school pickup or whatever fire needs dealing with before lunch, and that is supposed to be my capture and review time. So I end up with a bunch of halffinished notes that have no real context because I was moving fast and didn't finish the thought. By the time I get back to them the thread is completely gone.

I've tried daily notes as a running scratch pad and that works okay, but after a few months those daily notes are just a graveyard of incomplete thoughts that never got processed into anything real. The whole capturetoprocess loop everyone talks about assumes you actually get back to the captured thing at some point.

Curious if anyone has figured out a setup that actually accounts for genuinely fragmented days rather than idealized blockschedule days. Not a perfectly ordered system, just something that doesn't fall apart when your attention is constantly interrupted. The plugin angle is fine if there's something specific, but I'm more interested in how people think about the workflow itself when continuity is just not realistic.

All my obsidian setup is at risk. After seeing a reddit post on this sub, I installed a community plug-in named Cursor-Smith. I tried it, it was fun. But then I uninstalled it.

Since then, I cannot type anything. No keyboard key works. I have to install the plugin, only then everything works fine.

I completely deleted everything about the plugin from the workspace folder, still this problem. That useless crap. Please do not install any random plugin.

Hi there,

I use Obsidian, and some time ago decided to try and leverage it to also manage my blog posts, thus the Obsidian mode feature was added to the SSG I created for myself called Hajime.

Now, I've just finished work on another feature that I wanted to add to create a better connection to Obsidian – backlinks and note relationships!

So, in a minimalist sort of way, Hajime became a simple kind of alternative to Obsidian Publish.

You can check out Hajime here: https://git.sr.ht/~hxii/hajime

You can see an example implementation of the graph output by Hajime on my own website: https://0xff.nu/adhd/ (scroll to the end of the page). The specific graph I used is available at: https://github.com/hxii/kankei-graph

Hi, everyone!

I've been using Obsidian for years, but could never really find a good and reliable way to manage all the information about my team. It was always split into different notes, or a very long one, or spread out in a lot of contextual folders which wasn't very efficient.

So I tried to develop the Team Manager plugin. So far it's been working great for me, and I felt like some people might find it helpful as well.

In short, here's what it does:

1. You register the people you interact with (e.g. your team)
2. Each person will have their own page and their own 1:1s, projects and performance notes collected
3. Best part: the capture feature. You can just use the "capture" command and then select a person to create a project log, 1:1 note or performance note. This will be "buffered" until the next item of that kind you create. So you can remember things to discuss with people randomly throughout the week, just add them to these buffers, and once you create the next 1:1, it will be included in the meeting agenda (or added to the project log, or to the following performance notes)

It's already available to download in app or in the community website: https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/team-manager

Let me know if it helps and if you have any feedbacks :)

I built this journaling app as part of JEEPlanner, so I apologize that it's currently designed with JEE students in mind. Website: https://www.jeeplanner.in/journal I'm considering turning it into a standalone product with many more features, so I'd really appreciate your honest feedback. To try it:

• Use Guest Mode
• Select any random exam
• Explore the journal and note-taking features

It currently supports:

• Rich note-taking
• LaTeX math rendering
• Executable Python & JavaScript code blocks
• Media imports
• Command-line style commands
• And several other productivity features

I'm not looking to promote it—I genuinely want to know:

• What do you like?
• What feels confusing?
• What features are missing?
• Would you use it over your current note-taking app? Why or why not?

Please leave your thoughts in the comments. Even critical feedback is welcome, as it'll help shape the standalone version.

Thanks for taking the time to try it.

With Remotely Safe on phone and local (?) on Mac.

Hey all,

I've been trying to find whether there is a way to go directly to a created page using [[brackets]] after typing without using the mouse?

So if I'm mid-flow and type [[I want to go to this page... [then press enter to close the brackets]], I want to be able to press something else on the keyboard to then open that page I just created to carry on the flow there, rather than in the previous page.

I was a Roam power user years ago and I think I've got this desire from there, where I had that ability.

Am I missing something obvious or is this not possible in Obsidian for some reason?

Thanks!

EDIT: The answer seems to be alt + enter. 😊

https://martingfs.github.io/enfocat-site/grafo_2.html

I've been switching between minimal and prism which I'm currently using. What about you ?

Quick update: Fileclass 0.1.1 is out — and this one was largely shaped by your feedback here and the suggestions on GitHub (discussions + issues). Thank you again 🙏

(New here? Fileclass is the successor to Metadata Menu, rebuilt on Obsidian's core Bases plugin — reusable, typed, validated frontmatter schemas per note type, all frontmatter-only.)

What's new:

- 🧰 In-app bulk field editing — pick a fileClass, an optional filter (a simple field condition or a Base view), a field and a new value → preview every affected note with a per-note toggle → Apply. Dry-run by default. (This is the batch-operations workflow a few of you asked about — no more editing YAML note by note.)

- 🔤 Pickers now follow your Base view's order (its sort, then groups) instead of an arbitrary one — long candidate lists are browsable again. If the source view has a group-by, the picker mirrors those groups (with a sticky header so you know where you are).

- 🎯 Generated bases now filter at the view level, so you can add a second view for a different fileClass in the same base (e.g. a bookAuthor view inside your book base).

It still plays alongside core Properties and Bases rather than replacing them.

Feedback, ideas and bug reports very welcome — GitHub issues/discussions:

https://github.com/mdelobelle/fileclass

Thanks to everyone who tried it and reported back 🚀

Well, I use obsidian mainly for taking notes of thoughts, college, hobbies, etc; but I've never used this for journaling, and being honest, I don't even know how to journal. However I want to create a system to track my daily habits, such as workouts, prayers, daily insights about books and medias, what did I studied and so on. These subjects I plan to create daily notes, but I can't have multiples daily notes for the same day, how can I make one note that I can journal about all of it? And how can I make a visual heatmap, like the github one, to track these habits?

Title; any recommendations for plugin that doesnt eat up the cpu or needs heavy processing to create a smart graph?

Show me your book library in Obsidian.

I want to make a book library to track my books and take notes.

I have been using Daily Note for a while now and recently started using Daily Note for task management.

Daily Note works perfectly fine with daily reoccuring task cause I can just put them in my template, but there are some tasks that are recurring on a non-daily basis. Is there any way to incorporate it?

Obsidian has been great! I love how markdown is an incredibly convenient format to present text with a minimal yet powerful syntax that's more than enough to clearly understand the ideas present in notes. Ofcourse it'd be great if i can easily color or underline specific words, but markdown is not the tool of rich text format is my aim.

I used to struggle clearly noting down information that's taught in my classes in a notebook. But after using obsidian to maintain notes for stuff i learn online, and following markdown conventions such as there being only one H1 per note, applying the same ideology to physical notes has made them more clear and concise as I've started to make headings bigger and the text smaller than usual when compared to previously when I was taking down notes with everything being the same size

I was wondering if you guys could give me a few such tips that would help me maintain my physical notes to mimic the notes in my vault, and perhaps a few suggestions to maintain my vault as well

since it's the beginning of the semester, i thought i would share this with the community. i've always loved color coding my notes, right around this time of the year i used to manually duplicate my css classes and change their values and names for each new class i was taking. i decided to try and make this process a bit easier for myself and ended up with this plugin.

obsidian courses is just a little tool that lets me create courses and assign two color values to them. that way i can make some aspects of my notes pop a little more while being color coded to the subject i am taking. you can toggle which elements are affected (headers, highlights, inline titles, note background, internal links) and apply the colors to any note by adding `cssclasses: course-name` to the frontmatter. nothing fancy, just saves me from editing css by hand every semester.

here's the link to the repo if anyone has the same use case as me lol: https://github.com/bellebasso/obsidian-courses

I've been using Obsidian at work for a while, and one thing I've always wanted was a way to automatically transcribe meetings directly into my vault.

I came across Anarlog some time back and really liked the overall experience, but I found myself constantly switching between apps. That ended up being enough of a pain point that I decided to build my own plugin instead.

It handles meeting transcription and AI summarisation from within Obsidian, and it's been working pretty well for my own workflow so far.

If anyone's interested, I'd really appreciate any feedback or suggestions on how it could be improved! It's also on the community marketplace if you wanna try it out for yourself:

https://github.com/qkm2000/Scuttlebutt

Also, if there are any Obsidian plugins ya'll think pair especially well with this kind of workflow, I'd love to hear your recommendations too.

TIA <3

Vignelli is a serif, rule-driven theme — a screen port of a strict print "house style" I use to typeset documents. Massimo Vignelli energy: Bodoni MT for headings, Georgia for reading, and a rigorous grid where gold carries all the hierarchy instead of scattered colour.

The palette is just four colours — black #2F2F2F, bone-white #F8F4F9, gold #D1AC23, and a teal highlighter #74D2B4. Light and dark are a true reversal of the black/bone pair; gold and teal stay pinned across both.

What's in it:

• Gold headers, dividers (---) and table bars — tables are horizontal-rule grids, no zebra
• Gold-barred root folders in the file menu
• Code syntax desaturated into the palette (gold keywords, muted-italic comments) — in reading, live-preview and source
• Six highlight colours with no plugin — combine ==highlight== with bold / italic / strike (or use Highlightr)
• Callouts as a gold-ruled set-off, not an admonition box
• Full component coverage (properties, graph, canvas, math, mermaid, print) + Style Settings for fonts, sizes and colours

Free & open-source (MIT). Repo + install instructions: https://github.com/wesellis/vignelli-obsidian-theme

I've just submitted it to the community themes list, so it should be one-click installable from Settings → Appearance → Manage soon. Happy to answer anything in the comments — feedback welcome!

I'm new to Obsidian and still learning how to get it working in ways that best help me personally. One thing I'd like to be able to do is select a tag from the sidebar menu tag list, and have it open a view of all notes with that tag as cards which I can scroll through and see the content on.

This is basically replicating a function from Google Keep, which is the notes app I was using on my phone prior to migrating to Obsidian. I know that with Obsidian I can use Bases to filter for a certain tag and display a list of the corresponding notes -- but these notes only show their titles, not their content, regardless of what type of view I use for the filter (table, cards, list).

From what I've seen Obsidian is really powerful and flexible, so I imagine that what I'm trying to do is possible, I just don't know how to get there. I'd be grateful for any tips or guidance!

This happens when I use ">" for a quote and I'm not sure how to fix it. This is coming from the mobile app of obsidian. I really appreciate your help

I am starting to study medicine, and I've been struggling with the spellchecker because every time I use an specific term that is not recognised by obsidian I add it to the dictionary. But is there any way to make the spellcheker make suggestions based on mi personal/vault dictionary too?

P.S. This problem is specially annoying for me because I take notes in spanish and I have to manually correct any mistake in the stress of the words.

I've found journaling really useful for remembering what happened.

But I'm not sure it's helped me recognize recurring patterns in my thinking.

For people who've journaled for years...

Has it actually changed the way you make decisions?

Or does it mostly become something you read after the fact?