This Week in Obsidian #14

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 1.12.7 Mobile (Public) - 2026-03-23

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.12.7 Desktop (Public) - 2026-03-23

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.12.6 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-03-18

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.12.6 Desktop (Early access) - 2026-03-18

💎 Gem of the Week

Remindian

Remindian syncs Obsidian Tasks or TaskNotes with Apple Reminders and Things 3 while keeping your vault as the source of truth. The standout detail is its surgical writeback: it updates completion, dates, priority, and tags without rewriting your task lines or stripping metadata. If you plan tasks in Obsidian but execute them in Apple’s task apps, it’s a clean bridge worth trying.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• BRAT, Easily install a beta version of a plugin for testing.

• Image Converter, Convert, compress, resize, annotate, markup, draw, crop, rotate, flip, align, drag-resize, rename with variables, and…

• Meta Bind, Make your notes interactive with inline input fields, metadata displays, and buttons.

• Folder notes, Create notes within folders that can be accessed without collapsing the folder, similar to the…

• Easy Typing, Auto format when typing.

• Datacore, An even faster reactive query engine for the data obsessed.

• Relay, Collaborate in real time with live cursors. Share folders. Manage access to updates.

• Ink, Hand write or draw directly between paragraphs using a digital pen, stylus, or Apple pencil.…

• Map View, An interactive map view for your notes.

• Harper, The fastest grammar and spell checker that respects your privacy.

• Task Board, Manage all your tasks throughout your vault from a single board and much more...

• Codeblock Customizer, Customize your code blocks in editing, and reading mode as well.

• LifeOS, Life management system.

• Markdown export, Export Markdown to a package, including images.

• Floating Search, Search text by using Obsidian default search view.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• KatmerCode: Run Claude Code in Obsidian for Academic Research - 2026-03-22

• Xournal++ plugin for bringing handwritten notes into Obsidian - 2026-03-21

• Paper Studio: Publish Obsidian notes as shareable designed pages - 2026-03-20

• Connect Obsidian to Claude Code - 2026-03-20

• A Notion-Style Obsidian Dashboard for Daily Use - 2026-03-20

• The definitive Obsidian task manager - TaskForge v2.5 is here! Drag-and-drop sorting, quick task list filters, Siri, task dependencies, and a lot more - 2026-03-19

• [Update] Remindian now syncs to Todoist & TickTick, plus file-to-list mapping — here’s what changed since v1 - 2026-03-18

• Obsidian Mistakenly Deletes Another File - 2026-03-23

• Dataview: Filtering out TASKS without a property set (i.e. null values) - 2026-03-23

• Move to New Folder plugin: create a folder and move items in one step - 2026-03-23

• Atropos: Local tool to archive and prune inactive Obsidian notes - 2026-03-23

• Fade gradient on Canvas cards to show that they can be scrolled - 2026-03-23

• Template bug: {{date}} in YAML becomes “{ date }” after editing - 2026-03-22

• Quilden: Free Obsidian sync via GitHub with E2E encryption and web editor - 2026-03-22

• Claude Code skill to save recipes into Obsidian from video links - 2026-03-22

• TaskNotes appreciation: tasks as notes finally clicked for my system - 2026-03-22

• AI in Obsidian: Why Your Notes May Not Stay Private - 2026-03-21

• A Pokémon Center Pokédex Base to learn Obsidian icons - 2026-03-20

• How I Use Obsidian to Finish My History Degree - 2026-03-19

• Color-Coded Filenames and Tags: An ADHD-Friendly Setup - 2026-03-19

• Obsidian Reader with outlines, syntax highlighting, math, and footnotes - 2026-03-18

• One Year and 500 Notes in Obsidian as a College Student (AMA) - 2026-03-18

• How switching Obsidian themes boosted my focus and productivity - 2026-03-17

• Using Obsidian for D&D character sheets (and faster in-combat edits) - 2026-03-17

• Obsidian-1.12.6.appimage not working on Raspberry OS - 2026-03-23

• Mobile bug: Spaces sometimes disappear in long bullet list lines - 2026-03-22

• CLI for self-hosted LiveSync vault access for agents and automation - 2026-03-22

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• How I Organize My Second Brain Using Obsidian Bases + Claude Code

• Obsidian Templates: The Most Underrated Tool in Your PKM System

• Turn Your AI Chats into Permanent Obsidian Notes (Step-by-Step)