This Week in Obsidian #10

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.

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📢 Official Announcements

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.12.3 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-02-23

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.12.3 Desktop (Early access) - 2026-02-23

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.12.2 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-02-18

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.12.2 Desktop (Early access) - 2026-02-18

💎 Gem of the Week

HiNote

HiNote pulls highlights from your notes into a sidebar and lets you add comments directly to each highlight, keeping ideas attached to the exact passage. It stands out this week for its AI-assisted commenting and chat around highlights, plus one-click exports to shareable knowledge-card images or new linked notes. If you annotate heavily or turn highlights into study material, this one is worth a spin.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Advanced Canvas, Supercharge your canvas experience. Create presentations, flowcharts and more.

• Spaced Repetition, Fight the forgetting curve by reviewing flashcards & entire notes.

• Tracker, Track occurrences and numbers in your notes.

• ExcaliBrain, ExcaliBrain is inspired by TheBrain and Breadcrumbs. It is an interactive, structured mind-map of your…

• Weread, Sync Tencent Weread highlights and annotations.

• Dashboard navigator, Vault dashboard and navigator. Show recent files by type, files per day, week, month, search…

• Khoj, An AI personal assistant for your digital brain.

• File Order, Use number-prefixes in your file names to define a custom order, and drag-and-drop the files…

• Task Collector (TC), Change task status and collect tasks within a document using hotkeys and context menus.

• HiNote, Add comments to highlighted notes, use AI for thinking, and flashcards for memory.

• Excalidraw, Edit and view Excalidraw drawings.

• Copilot, Your AI Copilot: Chat with Your Second Brain, Learn Faster, Work Smarter.

• Self-hosted LiveSync, Community implementation of self-hosted livesync. Reflect your vault changes to some other devices immediately. Please…

• Notebook Navigator, Replace the default file explorer with a clean two-pane interface featuring folder tree, tag browsing,…

• Local REST API, Unlock your automation needs by interacting with your notes over a secure REST API.

• Note Toolbar, Add customizable toolbars to your notes.

• TaskNotes, Note-based task management with calendar, pomodoro and time-tracking integration.

• Pretty Properties, Makes note properties look more fun: adds side image, banners, list property colors and allows…

• Kindle Highlights, Sync your Kindle book highlights using your Amazon login or uploading your My Clippings file.

• Another Quick Switcher, Another choice of Quick switcher.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• ZotFlow beta: bidirectional Zotero sync, PDF reader, and auto-notes - 2026-02-21

• Chorographia 0.3.0 beta: fixes, QOL updates, and new World Map mode - 2026-02-19

• A Canvas workflow for note-taking: MOCs, links, and daily sections - 2026-02-19

• Notebook Navigator 2.4 adds a property browser and note creation in tag view - 2026-02-18

• Building a Custom Media Card Dashboard in Obsidian (Vault Tour Part 2) - 2026-02-17

• Chorographia: a semantic map layer for your Obsidian vault - 2026-02-17

• Plugin developer suggestions to improve Obsidian’s new image handling - 2026-02-23

• Folder Bridge: Mount External Folders in Obsidian (No Dupes or Symlinks) - 2026-02-22

• Plugin Update: Hand-Drawn Marginalia, Omni-Capture, and Auto-Canvas - 2026-02-21

• JotBird: Publish Obsidian Notes to Shareable Web Pages (No Account) - 2026-02-20

• Cornell Marginalia Update: Reading View Support & Sidebar Explorer - 2026-02-19

• Sidebar Task Hub: A Plugin to View All Vault Tasks in One Sidebar Panel - 2026-02-18

• Obsidian 1.12.2 (early access): iOS share sheet and improved CLI - 2026-02-18

• A Second Brain - Smart Notes With An Obsidian Zettelkasten - 2026-02-24

• Keep Datacards results a consistent size in split view - 2026-02-23

• New macOS plugin: Trigger Obsidian commands with hand gestures - 2026-02-23

• Windows batch script for portable Obsidian install and updates - 2026-02-23

• Beginner resources for using Obsidian for journaling and interests - 2026-02-23

• Better PDF reading and annotation plugins for Obsidian? - 2026-02-23

• Add offline Obsidian documentation inside the app - 2026-02-22

• Obsiddy-In: Browser-Based Quick Capture That Saves Directly to Your Vault - 2026-02-20

• My reorganized Obsidian vault (v2): rebuilt for study and daily use - 2026-02-18

• Regression: Middle-click no longer opens bookmarks in a new tab - 2026-02-23

• Folder duplicate bug when parent folder name contains a dot - 2026-02-23

• Hidden Obsidian feature: Enable line numbers in the editor gutter - 2026-02-23

• New web app that supports Obsidian’s JSON Canvas format - 2026-02-23

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• How I Use Obsidian + Claude Code to Run My Life

• 입력부터 성과까지. Obsidian으로 완성하는 AI 시대 지식관리 워크플로우! 목표 설정 → 입력/수집→연결→산출물→활용→산출물 | 노트테이킹 마스터_3강

• DKT90-Второй мозг инженера: Obsidian, Zettelkasten и Johnny Decimal