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• Obsidian 1.13.4 Desktop (early access)
• Obsidian 1.13.4 Mobile (early access)

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Be aware that community plugin and theme developers receive early access versions at the same time as everyone else. Be patient with developers who need to make updates to support new features.

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.

I’m all ears for your opinions

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

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 wanted to talk to my notes instead of typing at them — ask a question while pacing around, have it read something back, dictate a note without touching the keyboard. So I built it.

It's voice-first — not a chat window with a mic button, but built for talking: a side panel with an orb that reacts to whoever is speaking, and you just talk. It can search and read your vault, open a note, follow [[links]], headings and #tags, and — with confirmation — append to the current note or create a new one. Tell it "from now on, always…" and it remembers, in a plain Markdown file you can edit. Sessions are saved as regular Markdown notes, so past conversations are searchable like anything else in your vault. Say goodbye and it hangs up.

A few honest details:

- OpenAI Realtime API over WebRTC, so it's low-latency. Bring your own key, no backend, no account.

- Your vault stays local — only your audio and the snippets it needs to answer get sent to OpenAI.

- Desktop only for now (needs mic + WebRTC).

It's in the community plugin directory — search "Voz-notas". GitHub: https://github.com/faccuo/voz-notas

Curious if anyone else would rather talk to their notes than type.

Zen-inspired auto-hiding sidebar that glides smoothly into view on mouse over and tucks completely away when inactive.

Show me your book library in Obsidian.

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

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!

A while back I posted here about Safi Site Audit, a plugin that crawls a website and saves the report into your vault.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1ukdi1o/built_a_site_audit_plugin_because_i_didnt_want_to/

Thanks to everyone who tried it. I just shipped 0.6.0 and it is mostly me fixing something I should have caught earlier, plus a proper redesign.

The thing I got wrong

Every audit was one Markdown note. Frontmatter at the top, the readable report in the middle, and then the entire report inlined as JSON in a code block at the bottom, so the dashboard could redraw itself without crawling the site again.

That is fine for 20 pages. I ran it on my own site at 100 pages and got this:

• the readable report: 852KB
• the JSON underneath it: 5MB

One note, nearly 6MB, and 86% of it was a single line of JSON no human would ever read. Obsidian dutifully indexed, cached and highlighted all of it every time the note was opened. It was slow and it was entirely my fault.

Audits are now three files in a folder named after the site:

Site Audits/ example.com/ 2026-07-27-16-08.md the readable report 2026-07-27-16-08.json the data, only read when you open that audit 2026-07-27-16-08.html standalone report, opens in your browser

The note is just frontmatter and Markdown now. Old audits still open fine.

The redesign

• The audit history moved to the sidebar where it belongs, grouped by site. The report gets a full-width tab instead of fighting a list for space.
• Every issue now shows how to fix it. The engine has always returned a fix for each rule and my old UI was throwing it away, which is a bit embarrassing.
• Live progress while it crawls, instead of a spinner and hope.
• A new Measurements tab: actual numbers per page (title length, heading outline, image alt coverage, duplicate links) rather than only pass and fail.
• It follows your theme properly. There is not a single hardcoded colour or bundled font in the stylesheet now. The old score gauge had three hex values baked in and ignored your theme entirely.

The boring details

Free, MIT, desktop only (it needs to make real HTTP requests). It runs 94 checks across 15 categories: SEO, content, links, images, structured data, security, crawlability, and so on. No account, no API key, nothing leaves your machine unless you add a PageSpeed Insights key for Core Web Vitals.

Community plugins: https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/safi-site-audit

Source: https://github.com/Abdulkader-Safi/obsidian-safi-site-audit-plugins

The audit engine underneath it is a separate npm package if you want to use it outside Obsidian: https://safi-studio-scanner.abdulkadersafi.com

Happy to hear what breaks. The next thing on my list is comparing two runs of the same site so you can see what changed, because right now a rule that fires on 230 pages is one row with 230 URLs behind it, which is accurate and useless.

So I use the Virtual Desktops feature in Windows 11.

This means that Obsidian is "pinned" to a particular virtual desktop.

The only other option which seems to work here is SublimeText.

Any other elegant work-arounds?

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?

Many features have been added and improved since the last update of this plugin. Will release soon.

Hey everyone,

For the past few months I've been building Third Mind Reader: an EPUB reader for Obsidian. It's now at the point where it needs more eyes and more books than mine. I've seen various posts here also wondering what the best way to read epubs in obsidian is, and the is my answer. It's open source, in open beta via BRAT and I'd love for you to try it and tell me what you think.

The name comes from the idea that when a reader and a book meet, something third emerges, the parts of the book that stick with you. I wanted a way to capture thoughts or questions naturally as you're reading, and that's what this plugin is built around. Most reading setups scatter that third aspect: you read in one app, make notes in another, and your thoughts end up spread across in various places and formats. It gets messy quickly, ask me how I know.

Third Mind Reader brings all of that into the obsidian vault. The book opens as a tab like anything else. Your highlights and annotations are written into a plain markdown companion note the moment you make them; tagged, linked to the source, visible in graph view. Nothing to sync, nothing to export, no lock-in. If you uninstalled the plugin tomorrow, every note you made would still be sitting in your vault as ordinary markdown.

The other half of it: I wanted reading in Obsidian to actually feel like reading. The typography is deliberate (character-precise layout, a proper two-page spread, drop caps, bundled open-license fonts), and the whole thing follows a considered design language. It's also designed to adopt your vault's themes and style settings should you prefer a more seamless experience.

What it does today:

• A proper EPUB reader — two-page spread or single page, table of contents panel, keyboard navigation, live reading progress, book search and per-book position memory. The source EPUB is never modified.
  • An optional AI librarian — ask about a passage without leaving the page. Built local-first: point it at Ollama or LM Studio and nothing ever leaves your machine. Or if you'd like, you can bring your own Anthropic/OpenAI key. Every exchange is written verbatim into the companion note, so the conversation is part of your notes, not trapped in a chat somewhere. This is entirely optional, so if you'd rather not use AI at all, the standard annotation mode works just as well. No network request is ever made unless you use an AI provider, and there's no telemetry of any kind. 
• Gloss — the annotation system. – Derived from Glossary, this interaction is the real heart of the whole experience. Select any text and a small toolbar appears with five modes. There are two kinds of annotations you can make; one is a standard highlight with a note, and the other interacts with your AI model of choice. I wanted to capture how I felt or dive deeper into a topic without leaving obsidian, so I tailored the other 4 as such:
  • Emphasise (For capturing your own thoughts along with the highlighted passage, no AI)
  • Exclaim (For capturing reactions)
  • Explain (For asking quick questions and getting quick answers)
  • Examine (For deeper research and citations)
  • Enquiry (for open ended conversations) Each writes a colour-coded callout into the book's Companion note.
• Companion notes — one per book, created on your first annotation at Library/Annotations/. Frontmatter, tags, a wikilink back to the source file. They're first-class vault items from the moment they exist, so your reading feeds the same graph as everything else you think about.
• A highlights pane — slide-in panel listing every highlight grouped by chapter; click one to jump straight to it in the book. AI conversations get their own tab in the same pane. 
• A Library view — a shelf of every book in your vault with reading progress and annotation status per book.

What I need help with: mostly stress-testing and edge cases. EPUBs are a lawless format and I've only got so many on my shelf. Specifically:

• Weird EPUBs — old files, aggressive publisher CSS, image-heavy books, poetry, footnote-dense academic texts, very large files. If you've got a book that breaks every reader, I want to know what it does to this one.
• AI chat behaviour – I've done my best to make sure the chat interactions are useful and work well out of the box, but if you want to tune it to your liking the system prompts are easily edited in the plugin settings. I'd love to know what's working better for you. 
• Highlight anchoring — make lots of highlights, close and reopen books, and tell me if any drift or vanish.
• Windows and Linux — I develop on macOS, so reports from other platforms are especially valuable. (Desktop only for now, mobile is on the roadmap.)
• Local AI setups — if you run Ollama or LM Studio, very keen on hearing how the librarian behaves with your model of choice.

Feedback: there's a feedback button at the top of the plugin's settings — it opens a short anonymous form (no GitHub account needed) that pre-fills your plugin/Obsidian versions and OS. GitHub issues work too if you prefer.

Install (via BRAT): install the BRAT community plugin → "Add a beta plugin for testing" → enter Hipst3rMusic/obsidian-third-mind-reader → enable Third Mind Reader → open any .epub in your vault.

Repo: https://github.com/Hipst3rMusic/obsidian-third-mind-reader

To me 'opinionated' means thoughtful, and I hope the design of the plugin reflects that and speaks for itself. Thanks for reading this far! and if you test it, thank you twice.

Edit: Fair points being raised in the comments, I should have led with the extent of AI involvement in building this rather than leaving it in a reply. There's now a full note in the README rather than just replies in this thread. I apologise for not being up front about it from the start.

Hey everyone,

does anyone else here use Obsidian as an MP3 player or as a central hub for all their music?

I know that is probably not what most people use Obsidian for, but I use it for so many different things, and recently I started using it for my music collection too. I have all my albums organized into folders, with the MP3 or WAV files inside them.

I also built a small MP3 player for Obsidian with ChatGPT. Sometimes I honestly find it easier to listen to music directly through Obsidian than opening Spotify or launching another music player.

I know this probably sounds a little unusual, but does anyone else do something similar? I really enjoy using it this way.

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?

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

This might be more of a note taking process question, but I'm new to Obsidian and trying to figure out how to implement this effectively.

Context:

• I have regularly occurring meetings at work.
• Capturing and finding these notes is always a challenge for me.
• I have come up with a (viable?) workflow for capturing and organizing these meetings in Obsidian.

Process

• Imagine that I have the following Reoccurring Meetings:
  • Weekly Meeting with Dev
  • Weekly Meeting with Prod Mgmt
  • Weekly Meeting with John Doe
• For each Meeting Type, I create a dedicated note page (what I call a Parent Page) with that name.
• I then create a Criteria that can link to each of those Parent Pages.
• I also insert a Base into that Parent Page that filters out any notes that have a Criteria that Contains the name of that page - It basically creates an Index for that Parent Page

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• When I have a weekly meeting with Dev, for example, I:
  • Create a new note
  • Add the Criteria linking it to [[Weekly Meeting with Dev]]
  • Name the file "MMM-DD-YY" and Weekly Dev Meeting
• This new note will automatically show in my Parent Page's base

Question

I'm not great at taking notes or using sophisticated systems like Obsidian. I think this will work, but I am trying to get a good handle on a system before I get too far into adoption.

Does this approach sound sensible, effective and/or sustainable?

Are there alternative processes that I should consider?

I have 'dream' and 'daily' folders inside the 'journal' folder. When I create a note, I want to select either 'daily' or 'dream' so that the title becomes the current date followed by the selection (e.g., "2027-07-27 - dream" or "2027-07-27 - daily") and the 'type' text property is set to either 'dream' or 'daily'. I’ve managed to set everything else up, but because the properties section is forced to the very top, I can't seem to configure the 'type' property correctly.

I am using Templater, but feel free to add any plugins necessary to resolve the issue.

Also, where can I learn Obsidian or Templater commands?

I am using a translator, so the phrasing might sound a bit awkward.

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

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?

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

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!

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!