This Week in Obsidian #20
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
Chronology adds a sidebar calendar and timeline for browsing notes by creation or modification date. It stands out as a practical vault-review tool: daily and weekly ranges can appear as a timeline, month views reveal activity patterns, and metadata-based dates help avoid misleading timestamps from Obsidian Sync. Try it when you want to retrace what changed in your vault without relying on search alone.
🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out
Tasks, Track tasks across your vault. Supports due dates, recurring tasks, done dates, sub-set of checklist…
Chronology, A calendar and a timeline of the note’s creation and modification.
Multi Properties, Add properties to multiple notes at once. Either right-click a folder or select multiple notes…
Janitor, Perform cleanup tasks on your vault.
PodNotes, Write notes on podcasts with ease.
PlantUML, Generate PlantUML diagrams.
Ink, Hand write or draw directly between paragraphs using a digital pen, stylus, or Apple pencil.…
Nutstore Sync, Sync your vault with Nutstore/坚果云 using WebDAV protocol.
Quick Switcher++, Enhanced Quick Switcher, search open panels, and symbols.
Importer, Import data from Notion, Evernote, Apple Notes, Microsoft OneNote, Google Keep, Bear, Roam, and HTML…
Copilot, Your AI Copilot: Chat with Your Second Brain, Learn Faster, Work Smarter.
Harper, The fastest grammar and spell checker that respects your privacy.
Typewriter Mode, Typewriter scrolling, highlighting of the current line, dimming of unfocused paragraphs and more.
Text Generator, Generate text content using GPT-3 (OpenAI).
Admonition, Admonition block-styled content.
Markmind, Mind map, outline and PDF annotation tool. (Closed source)
Local GPT, Local Ollama and OpenAI-like GPT’s assistance for maximum privacy and offline access.
Excalidraw, Edit and view Excalidraw drawings.
Templater, Create and use templates.
Self-hosted LiveSync, Community implementation of self-hosted livesync. Reflect your vault changes to some other devices immediately. Please…
🗣️ Community Discussions
Notebook Navigator: Now with automated CodeQL security scans, OpenSSF Scorecard, and Obsidian ESLint 0.2.9 compliance - 2026-05-01
My writing-first Obsidian setup for reading, linking, and drafting - 2026-04-29
Obsidian Setup: A Wallpaper for Every Mood - 2026-05-04
Block Math Syntax discrepancy between editor and reading mode (LaTeX) - 2026-05-03
Why does
PluginSettingTabnot use theComponentinterface? - 2026-05-03New Plugin Turns Obsidian Canvas into a Headline Board - 2026-05-03
Wikilink resolution does not honor frontmatter aliases (1.12.7) - 2026-05-02
From Notion to Obsidian: A Two-Week Migration Journey - 2026-05-02
Remindian update: Liquid Glass on macOS 26 + a few things I need your help with - 2026-04-30
My Final Obsidian Vault Setup: Workspaces and Automation - 2026-04-30
New Plugin: Ledger-Style Budget Tracking in Obsidian - 2026-04-30
How I’m getting research PDFs into Obsidian with clean headings — built a converter for it - 2026-04-29
I’m ADHD so I made this distraction-free Obsidian plugin! - 2026-04-29
Obsidian as a Team Wiki: Replacing Confluence? - 2026-05-04
Search query fails with double-digit number prefix and multiple exclusions - 2026-05-03
Option to disable Unicode normalization - 2026-05-02
iOS startup time is slower than reported by Obsidian - 2026-05-02
VaultGuard (formerly Locksidian) preventing setting changes - 2026-05-02
How I create “encrypted” git backups of my vault - 2026-05-02
Run Solo RPGs in Obsidian with This Fantasy Setup - 2026-04-30
🛠️ Workflows & Tips
Claude Code + Obsidian: Build a Second Brain That Actually Learns
This Obsidian Plugin Just Fixed the Internet
My Simple Tag System in Obsidian
Ton vault Obsidian bouffe trop de tokens. Ce plugin règle ça.