This Week in Obsidian #07

Welcome back to another Tuesday edition of This Week in Obsidian.

Obsidian is a powerful local Markdown knowledge base. This newsletter highlights its development and community news. Openly developed on GitHub, contributions are welcome via PRs, issues, or @boundless4orest on X.

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📢 Official Announcements

Obsidian@obsdmd

Obsidian 1.11.6 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. This update introduces three new options to customize mobile interface. Find them in Settings → Appearance on mobile. - Full screen: automatically hide interface elements while reading.

5:28 PM · Jan 26, 2026 · 12.8K Views

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💎 Gem of the Week

Another Quick Switcher

A power-user replacement for Obsidian’s Quick Switcher that lets you build custom search commands and tune matching/ranking. It goes beyond file switching with modes like header/in-file search, backlink/link search with context, and ripgrep-powered grep—plus live previews so you can scan notes without leaving the dialog. Try it if you bounce between a big vault and need a single “jump-to-anything” palette for files, headings, links, and full-text content.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Excalidraw 5,333,914 downloads By Zsolt Viczian

• Templater 3,673,427 downloads By SilentVoid

• QuickAdd 1,571,512 downloads By Christian B. B. Houmann

• Self-hosted LiveSync 548,977 downloads By vorotamoroz

• Markmind 493,040 downloads By Mark

• Advanced Canvas 453,099 downloads By Developer-Mike

• Enhancing Export 361,408 downloads By YISH

• Quick Switcher++ 348,809 downloads By darlal

• Thino 323,091 downloads By Boninall

• Notebook Navigator 277,419 downloads By Johan Sanneblad

• Folder notes 264,467 downloads By Lost Paul

• Quiet Outline 250,900 downloads By the_tree

• Note Toolbar 169,015 downloads By Chris Gurney

• Todoist Sync 158,745 downloads By jamiebrynes7

• Another Quick Switcher 130,663 downloads By tadashi-aikawa

🗣️ Community Discussions

• Built “LoomView” for my history notes because standard timelines weren’t cutting it 2026-02-02

• transparent theme for mac - volcanic glass updates (simplified snippet included) 2026-02-01

• A CLI tool for reading Bases files + mdbase-spec: a specification for treating a vault as a typed, queryable database 2026-01-31

• I built an Obsidian plugin for Analog lovers: Easily digitize handwritten diagrams and notes without the friction 2026-01-27

• Some images not synced when pasted on Windows 2026-02-02

• API support for modifying view data before rendering 2026-02-02

• Archaeologist/Researcher workflow for postgraduate Thesis: Looking for automation and visualization tips 2026-02-02

• I built a plugin to export Kobo highlights directly to Obsidian (Free, Local, Customizable Readwise alternative) 2026-02-02

• Trying to select notes of my vault to share with other people 2026-02-02

• Obsidian + iPad Notes self contained Workflow (Goodnotes, Noteful, Notability, etc.) 2026-02-02

• Task Board v1.9.0 🎉 | A Ton of Essential Features 2026-02-01

• Automatically update property 2026-01-31

• Vault Intelligence: Active reasoning for your vault 2026-01-31

• TODOseq 0.9.0 - reader view formatting and embedded task lists 2026-01-31

• How are you guys actually searching and finding your notes? If I could solve this, I think my note taking would finally click 2026-01-30

• Chrome DevTools MCP + Obsidian = Unlimited power 2026-01-29

• Sprout – Flashcards and Spaced Repetition for Obsidian 2026-01-27

• [Mobile] Switching app causes scrolling to temporarily not work 2026-02-02

• Free Public Beta: Email anything into Obsidian — instantly 2026-02-02

• Self Contained iPad Notes to Obsidian Workflow (Goodnotes, Notability, Noteful, Etf) 2026-02-02

• Quick update on Email2Obsidian (v0.2.1) – and a big thank you 2026-02-02

• Code blocks in task lists look broken 2026-02-01

• Date property time picker forces ISO format instead of respecting user-defined date format 2026-02-01

• Plugin: CanvasNote 2026-02-01

• A different take on LLM context management inside Obsidian 2026-02-01

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Claude Just Gave My Obsidian Journaling Workflow a HUGE Upgrade

• Best Obsidian Content Maps with Bases (Tutorial)