This Week in Obsidian #19
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
Iconic lets you customize icons and colors directly from Obsidian’s UI across tabs, files and folders, bookmarks, tags, properties, ribbon commands, and more. It stands out for feeling native while going beyond simple icon swaps: you can pick from Lucide icons or emojis, apply theme-aware colors, and automate file or folder icons with conditional rules. Try it if your vault organization depends on visual cues and you want those cues to stay flexible as your workspace grows.
🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out
Minimal Theme Settings, Control the colors and fonts in Minimal Theme.
Advanced Tables, Improved table navigation, formatting, and manipulation.
Iconic, Customize your icons and their colors directly from the UI, including tabs, files & folders,…
Smart Second Brain, Interact with your privacy focused assistant by leveraging Ollama or OpenAI and making your second…
MCP Tools, Securely connect Claude Desktop to your vault with semantic search, templates, and file management capabilities.
Remember cursor position, Remember cursor and scroll position for each note.
Spaced Repetition, Fight the forgetting curve by reviewing flashcards & entire notes.
Douban, Import movies/books/musics/notes/games info data from Douban.
Recent Files, Display a list of recently opened files.
Relay, Collaborate in real time with live cursors. Share folders. Manage access to updates.
Breadcrumbs, Visualise the hierarchy of your vault using a breadcrumb trail or matrix view.
Excalidraw, Edit and view Excalidraw drawings.
Editing Toolbar, The Editing Toolbar is modified from cMenu, which provides more powerful customization settings and has…
RSS Dashboard, A dashboard for organizing and consuming RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and podcasts with smart tagging,…
Templater, Create and use templates.
Self-hosted LiveSync, Community implementation of self-hosted livesync. Reflect your vault changes to some other devices immediately. Please…
Sheet Plus, Create Excel-like spreadsheets and easily embed them in Markdown.
Task Board, Manage all your tasks throughout your vault from a single board and much more...
Weread, Sync Tencent Weread highlights and annotations.
Task Collector (TC), Change task status and collect tasks within a document using hotkeys and context menus.
🗣️ Community Discussions
Web Clipper 1.5: Manage Highlights & Stay in Reader Mode - 2026-04-22
One Year of Obsidian: A Practical Vault Setup - 2026-04-26
Portals 1.2.0: Tab Stacks, Context Notes, Hidden Files - 2026-04-24
How I operate Obsidian — maybe it helps, as others helped me - 2026-04-23
I made a timeline using only the canvas plugin. - 2026-04-23
Migrating out of Obsidian - 2026-04-22
New CLI Tool Exports OneNote to Obsidian on Any OS - 2026-04-27
Nodian: Bidirectional YAML Frontmatter Links Plugin - 2026-04-26
WatchLog: Track Anime, Movies, and TV Shows in Obsidian - 2026-04-26
Why I’m Skeptical of AI in My Obsidian Vault - 2026-04-26
Notebook Navigator 2.6: Variable Line Heights & Auto-Create Daily Notes - 2026-04-24
Sort Notes by Month and Year: A Better Way with Bases - 2026-04-24
Minimalist Editorial Theme: Make Notes Look Like a Magazine - 2026-04-23
Fix AltGr Shortcut Registration on Linux/KDE/Wayland - 2026-04-27
iPhone Photos Not Showing in Obsidian? Here’s the Fix - 2026-04-27
Karpathy’s LLM Wiki: AI Zettelkasten or Overhyped? - 2026-04-27
Image Resizing Bug: Missing Pipe Character for External Images - 2026-04-25
How to Use MM-DD Dates in Frontmatter Without a Year - 2026-04-25
Custom Obsidian Vault Recreates Notion’s Aesthetic - 2026-04-23
Inline Math Asterisk Misinterpreted as Italics in Reading Mode - 2026-04-27
🛠️ Workflows & Tips
Obsidian Community Plugin Audit Demo
My Improved Obsidian Habit Tracker: Simpler, Faster, Better