This Week in Obsidian #21

May 12, 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

Vertical Tabs

Vertical Tabs turns Obsidian’s crowded horizontal tab bar into a vertical workspace manager, making it easier to scan, group, and organize open notes. It stands out for power-user touches like per-tab zooming, zen mode, tab history, and an extended keyboard tab switcher, with advanced navigation presets such as an IDE-style mode for a more VSCode-like workflow.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

Creases, Tools for effectively folding Markdown sections.
Vertical Tabs, Offer an alternative view that displays open tabs vertically, allowing users to group and organize…
YOLO, Smart, snappy, and multilingual AI assistant for your vault.
Omnisearch, Intelligent search for your notes, PDFs, and OCR for images.
TagFolder, Show tags as folder.
ZotLit, Integrate with Zotero, create literature notes, and insert citations from a Zotero library.
AI image analyzer, Analyze images with AI to get keywords of the image.
LifeOS, Life management system.
Bible Reference, Take Bible study notes easily. Automatically suggests Bible verses as references.
Note Companion AI, AI-powered note organization and chat. Requires subscription or self-hosting with your own API keys.
Various Complements, Complete words similar to auto-completion in an IDE.
Minimal Theme Settings, Control the colors and fonts in Minimal Theme.
Relay, Collaborate in real time with live cursors. Share folders. Manage access to updates.
Weread, Sync Tencent Weread highlights and annotations.
RSS Dashboard, A dashboard for organizing and consuming RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and podcasts with smart tagging,…
Task Board, Manage all your tasks throughout your vault from a single board and much more...
Task Collector (TC), Change task status and collect tasks within a document using hotkeys and context menus.
Excalidraw, Edit and view Excalidraw drawings.
Templater, Create and use templates.
Tasks, Track tasks across your vault. Supports due dates, recurring tasks, done dates, sub-set of checklist…