This Week in Obsidian #16

Apr 07, 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

None

💎 Gem of the Week

Various Complements

This plugin brings IDE-style autocomplete to Obsidian, pulling suggestions from your current file, the wider vault, custom dictionaries, internal links, and even front matter. What makes it stand out is how far it pushes the writing flow: it can suggest internal links before you type [[, and its fallback linkify feature helps you turn text into links when the exact note match is missing. If you write quickly in large vaults and want linking plus metadata entry to feel less manual, this one is unusually well thought through.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

Initiative Tracker, TTRPG initiative tracker.
Media DB, Query multiple APIs for movies, series, anime, games, music releases and wiki articles, and import…
Calendar Bases, Adds a calendar layout to bases so you can display notes with dates in an…
Strange New Worlds, Reveal networked thought and the strange new worlds created by your vault.
Various Complements, Complete words similar to auto-completion in an IDE.
Editing Toolbar, The Editing Toolbar is modified from cMenu, which provides more powerful customization settings and has…
Media Extended, Integrate, manage video or audio directly in your notes, with enhanced playback and timestamp support.…
Smart Connections, AI link discovery copilot. See related notes as you write. Lookup using semantic (vector) search…
Typewriter Mode, Typewriter scrolling, highlighting of the current line, dimming of unfocused paragraphs and more.
Latex Suite, Make typesetting LaTeX math as fast as handwriting through snippets, text expansion, and editor enhancements.
Excalidraw, Edit and view Excalidraw drawings.
Self-hosted LiveSync, Community implementation of self-hosted livesync. Reflect your vault changes to some other devices immediately. Please…
Advanced Canvas, Supercharge your canvas experience. Create presentations, flowcharts and more.
Notebook Navigator, Replace the default file explorer with a clean two-pane interface featuring folder tree, tag browsing,…
Weread, Sync Tencent Weread highlights and annotations.
RSS Dashboard, A dashboard for organizing and consuming RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and podcasts with smart tagging,…
Markmind, Mind map, outline and PDF annotation tool. (Closed source)
Digital Garden, Publish your notes to a digital garden for others to enjoy.
CSS Editor, Edit CSS snippet files.
Easy Typing, Auto format when typing.