This Week in Obsidian #31
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
Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.2 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-07-14
Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.2 Desktop (Early access) - 2026-07-14
💎 Gem of the Week
Organize note content into clean, space-saving tab components using simple code blocks. Tabs can be nested, positioned on any side, and edited directly with autosaving. It’s especially useful for reference notes, code examples, and other content that benefits from compact navigation.
🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out
Lean Terminal, Embedded terminal panel powered by xterm.
Markdown Tabs, Create tabs in your notes.
Life Tracker, Capture and visualize the data that matters in your life.
Sort and Permute lines, Sort and Permute lines in whole file or selection.
TickTickSync, Sync TickTick tasks.
Find Orphaned Images, Finds images in the vault that are not linked to any notes.
Day Planner, Day planning from a task list in a Markdown note with enhanced time block functionality.
Advanced URI, Control everything with URI.
Vertical Tabs, Offer an alternative view that displays open tabs vertically, allowing users to group and organize tabs for a better navigation experience.
Terminal, Integrate consoles, shells, and terminals.
Digital Garden, Publish your notes to a digital garden for others to enjoy.
Claudian, Embeds Claude Code/Codex and other local Agents as AI collaborators in your vault.
Markmind, Mind map, outline and PDF annotation tool.
Quick Switcher++, Enhanced Quick Switcher, search open panels, and symbols.
Weread, Sync Tencent Weread highlights and annotations.
Sheet Plus, Create Excel-like spreadsheets and easily embed them in Markdown.
Ink, Handwriting and drawing directly between paragraphs using a digital pen, stylus, or Apple pencil.
YOLO, Smart, snappy, and multilingual AI assistant for your vault.
Claude Sidebar, Run Claude Code in your sidebar.
TagFolder, Show tags as folder.
🗣️ Community Discussions
belki 0.5: A Calm, Local-First Task Manager with Calendar Sync - 2026-07-16
How I Built an Author Hub in Obsidian for a 6-Book Series - 2026-07-20
A Vault Template with Typed Pages, Wikilinks, and a Linter - 2026-07-19
Restore Native macOS Autocorrect in Obsidian with This Plugin - 2026-07-19
Mastering Obsidian Properties: An In-Depth Guide - 2026-07-17
LOREBASE Now Tracks Movies, TV, Books & Manga - 2026-07-17
BeautyTasks 1.13: Full Calendar View with Drag-to-Reschedule - 2026-07-14
AutoIcons: Automatically Assign Icons to Every File and Folder - 2026-07-19
Apple Notes Sync: Two-Way Sync with iCloud from Any OS - 2026-07-19
Sync Last.fm Scrobbles and Build Beautiful Views in Obsidian - 2026-07-19
Built My Own Dashboard Plugin After Trying Everything Else - 2026-07-18
Building a Beautiful, Chaos-Proof Worldbuilding Vault - 2026-07-18
Graph Search Sync: Real-Time Graph Filtering from Search - 2026-07-17
New Theme: Obsidian Meets Steam’s Classic 2000s UI - 2026-07-17
Cursor-Smith 1.1.2: The Ultimate Custom Cursor Engine - 2026-07-14
Obsidian 1.13.2 Early Access Now on Desktop and Mobile - 2026-07-14
Operon 2.2: Portable Tables That Live in Your Vault - 2026-07-14
I Quit VS Code but Rebuilt My Image Plugin for Obsidian - 2026-07-14
🛠️ Workflows & Tips
Obsidian Note-Taking System for Academics & Students - Full Tutorial & Demo (Write Papers Faster)