This Week in Obsidian #18
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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💎 Gem of the Week
This plugin brings your Readwise highlights from Kindle, Pocket, Medium, PDFs, and more straight into Obsidian, with automatic syncing so new highlights keep flowing into your vault. It stands out for two reasons: the export templates are deeply customizable with Jinja, and the sync adds new material without overwriting your existing notes. If your reading workflow already runs through Readwise, this is one of the cleanest ways to turn highlights into a durable Obsidian knowledge base.
🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out
Admonition, Admonition block-styled content.
Better Export PDF, Export your notes to PDF, supports export preview, add bookmarks outline and header/footer.
Callout Manager, Easily create and customize callouts.
Day Planner (OG), Day planning from a simple task list in a Markdown note (bare bones, preserves the…
JS Engine, Run JavaScript from within your notes.
Readwise Official, Official Readwise integration.
AI Providers, A hub for setting AI providers (OpenAI-like, Ollama and more) in one place.
Mindmap Nextgen, Preview notes as Markmap mind maps.
Heading Level Indent, Indenting content under headers based on their level.
Version History Diff (Sync, File Recovery & Git), Diff the version history of the core Sync and File Recovery plugins and Git for…
Slides Extended, Create markdown-based reveal.js presentations. Fork of Advanced Slides.
Task Collector (TC), Change task status and collect tasks within a document using hotkeys and context menus.
Local GPT, Local Ollama and OpenAI-like GPT’s assistance for maximum privacy and offline access.
Continuous Mode, Displays all open notes in a tab group as a continuous scrollable page (sometimes called…
Local Backup, Automatically creates a local backup of the vault.
Codeblock Customizer, Customize your code blocks in editing, and reading mode as well.
SystemSculpt AI, Enhance your data flow with AI-powered tools for note-taking, task management, templates, and so much…
Markmind, Mind map, outline and PDF annotation tool. (Closed source)
Latex Suite, Make typesetting LaTeX math as fast as handwriting through snippets, text expansion, and editor enhancements.
Weread, Sync Tencent Weread highlights and annotations.
🗣️ Community Discussions
TaskForge v2.6 adds local calendar integration for tasks and events - 2026-04-20
Obsidian but with object-oriented-notes - 2026-04-15
Markdown Kanban | No Plugin - 2026-04-14
Bases: Flattening/concatenating link lists can stringify links - 2026-04-20
CSS Trick to Mimic Inline Dataview with Obsidian Bases - 2026-04-20
Obsidian workflows without plugins: tips for locked-down work setups - 2026-04-20
Refactoring Karpathy’s LLM-wiki for lower token usage - 2026-04-20
Starting Obsidian with 8,000+ journal files and no tags or links - 2026-04-19
Obsidian helped me so much. Sharing vault setup - 2026-04-19
What’s missing in Obsidian today? Gaps, pain points, and wishes - 2026-04-17
Turning chat logs into an Obsidian memory bank with a local LLM - 2026-04-16
A custom Obsidian plugin to track IBS symptoms and triggers - 2026-04-15
Turning Obsidian into a searchable health records hub - 2026-04-15
Real benefits of linking and tagging in Obsidian: what changed? - 2026-04-15
Obsidian crashes on launch when indexing very large markdown files - 2026-04-20
Pebble: A minimal, fast quick-capture plugin for Obsidian - 2026-04-20
Script: Visualize note and image meaning with embeddings (2D/3D map) - 2026-04-20
Excel paste now inserts an image instead of a Markdown table - 2026-04-19
Bases: Pasting multiline text into cells adds an extra line break - 2026-04-19
Bases: Can’t paste copied formula values into text cells - 2026-04-19
Move one tag from frontmatter into a separate frontmatter property - 2026-04-19
🛠️ Workflows & Tips
Claude Forgets Everything in Obsidian. I Fixed It!
Claude Code x Obsidian Second Brain (Andrej Kaparthy)
How To Build an LLM Knowledge Base in Obsidian with Claude Code