This Week in Obsidian #13

Mar 17, 2026

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

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💎 Gem of the Week

Codeblock Customizer — If Obsidian’s default code blocks feel too plain, this plugin turns them into something much more usable: themed blocks with headers, filenames, line numbers, folding, tabs, inline highlights, and even te rminal-style prompts. What makes it a gem is the depth without feeling gimmicky. It covers the practical details that make technical notes easier to read and present, including per-line highlighting, custom styling, and “copy as image” for polished snippets. If your vault includ es code-heavy notes, tutorials, or docs, try it.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

Markmind, Mind map, outline and PDF annotation tool. (Closed source)
Quick Switcher++, Enhanced Quick Switcher, search open panels, and symbols.
Easy Typing, Auto format when typing.
Breadcrumbs, Visualise the hierarchy of your vault using a breadcrumb trail or matrix view.
Relay, Collaborate in real time with live cursors. Share folders. Manage access to updates.
Harper, The fastest grammar and spell checker that respects your privacy.
Digital Garden, Publish your notes to a digital garden for others to enjoy.
Links, Manipulate links.
CSS Editor, Edit CSS snippet files.
Bible Reference, Take Bible study notes easily. Automatically suggests Bible verses as references.
Codeblock Customizer, Customize your code blocks in editing, and reading mode as well.
Floating Search, Search text by using Obsidian default search view.
YTranscript, Easily fetch transcription for any YouTube video.
GridExplorer, Browse note files in a grid view.
Syncthing Integration, Syncthing integration.