This Week in Obsidian #15

Mar 31, 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

Task List Kanban

An Obsidian plugin that pulls Markdown tasks from across your notes into a kanban board, so you can manage work without duplicating the same task in a separate system. It stands out because column placement is driven by tags like #in-progress, and changes stay in sync both ways: move, edit, complete, or cancel a card in the board and the original task updates in its source note. If your vault already doubles as your task inbox, this is a clean way to add structure without changing how you capture tasks.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

Homepage, Open a specified note, canvas, or workspace on startup, or set it for quick access…
Admonition, Admonition block-styled content.
Thino, Quickly capture memos and display them in the sidebar with a heatmap. (Closed source)
Breadcrumbs, Visualise the hierarchy of your vault using a breadcrumb trail or matrix view.
Local Backup, Automatically creates a local backup of the vault.
Modal forms, Define forms for capturing data that you will be able to open from anywhere you…
Codeblock Customizer, Customize your code blocks in editing, and reading mode as well.
Better File Link, Add better external file links to notes.
Note Companion AI, AI-powered note organization and chat. Requires subscription or self-hosting with your own API keys.
SystemSculpt AI, Enhance your data flow with AI-powered tools for note-taking, task management, templates, and so much…
Task List Kanban, Organizes all of the tasks within your files into a kanban view.
Solo RPG Toolkit, Helpful tools for playing TTRPG games, geared towards solo play with a GM emulator.
Fuzzy Chinese Pinyin, Fuzzy search using Chinese Pinyin.
Open Tab Settings, Adds options to customize how tabs are opened, including open in new tab by default,…
Jump-to-Date, Popup calendar for quickly navigating dates.