This Week in Obsidian #32

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 1.13.4 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-07-27

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.4 Desktop (Early access) - 2026-07-27

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.3 Mobile (Early access) - 2026-07-21

• Changelog: Obsidian 1.13.3 Desktop (Early access) - 2026-07-21

💎 Gem of the Week

Heatmap Tracker

Turn daily-note properties into customizable calendar heatmaps for habits, projects, and personal metrics. Flexible filters, color scales, statistics, and date ranges help reveal meaningful trends, while Markdown and HTML report exports make progress easy to share.

🔌 Plugins Worth Checking Out

• Natural Language Dates, Create date-links based on natural language.

• Tab Switcher, Switch your tabs with Ctrl + Tab in recently used order like in a browser.

• Heatmap Tracker, Visualize your activity and track goals, progress, habits, tasks, exercise, finances, and more—all in a single, interactive heatmap!

• Heading Shifter, Easily Shift and Change Markdown headings.

• Full Calendar Remastered, Complete Calendar HUB experience.

• Hover Editor, Transform the Page Preview hover popover into a fully working editor instance.

• Iconic, Customize your icons and their colors directly from the UI, including tabs, files & folders, bookmarks, tags, properties, and ribbon commands.

• Open Tab Settings, Adds options to customize how tabs are opened, including open in new tab by default, preventing duplicate tabs, and more.

• AI image analyzer, Analyze images with AI to get keywords of the image.

• ChatGPT MD, A seamless integration of ChatGPT, OpenRouter.

• Consistent Attachments and Links, Move note attachments and update links automatically.

• Recent Files, Display a list of recently opened files.

• Bible Reference, Take Bible study notes easily.

• Tasks, Track tasks across your vault.

• Local REST API with MCP, Unlock your automation needs by interacting with your notes over a secure REST API.

• Local Backup, Automatically creates a local backup of the vault.

• Quick Switcher++, Enhanced Quick Switcher, search open panels, and symbols.

• Sheet Plus, Create Excel-like spreadsheets and easily embed them in Markdown.

🗣️ Community Discussions

• ReverySky: Explore Your Vault as a 3D Cosmic Graph - 2026-07-21

• Third Mind Reader: Read EPUBs and Capture Highlights as Notes - 2026-07-26

• Mastering the Official Obsidian CLI: From Basics to AI Agents - 2026-07-25

• Read EPUBs & PDFs in Obsidian: Highlights Become Linked Notes - 2026-07-23

• Unlocking Obsidian’s Power: A Complete Guide to Templates & Templater - 2026-07-21

• Vault Change Feed: let AI agents see your edits without rescanning - 2026-07-27

• Build a two-agent AI chief of staff in Obsidian - 2026-07-26

• Voice-first plugin lets you talk to your Obsidian vault - 2026-07-25

• Cursor-Smith Hits 2K Downloads with Major 1.3.0 Update - 2026-07-24

• Ink Paper Theme: A Warm, Translucent Canvas for Your Notes - 2026-07-24

• I Built an Obsidian Plugin to Read Books and Auto-Capture Highlights - 2026-07-23

• Solace Theme v1.2.0: New Checkboxes, Font Control & Live Preview - 2026-07-23

• Obsidian 1.13.3 Early Access: New Desktop & Mobile Features - 2026-07-21

• Showcase: My Heavily Customized Obsidian Dashboard & Vault - 2026-07-21

• Color-Code Your Notes by Course with This New Plugin - 2026-07-27

• Link to folders like notes with [[Folder/]] - 2026-07-26

• Add GitHub token support to prevent plugin update rate limits - 2026-07-26

• Expose Task Indentation in CLI JSON Output for Hierarchies - 2026-07-26

• Fold Embedded Notes with a Click - 2026-07-25

• How I Turned My Obsidian Vault into a GitHub-Style Wiki - 2026-07-22

🛠️ Workflows & Tips

• Obsidian + Agentic AI? 🧠 Full Hermes Obsidian Workflow & Wiki Prep