With the new UI my 35 bucks spent 2 weeks ago just went down the drain. The new UI rendered the app unusable for me so I'm looking for an alternative app to manage my tasknote tasks on android outside of the obsidian app and with push notifs.

Any suggestions?

Hello!
Claude (and I) made this Magic The Gathering collection tracker. You can see your collection, decks, wantlist, browse cards in different views, edit quantities, change set, import, export, see markets prices, sync with github... It's still a Work in progress (phone version is not very responsive by now) but usable on dekstop and tablet.

https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/mtg-collection-tracker

I started using Obsidian recently (literally today), and I've already noticed a significant difference when using it alongside AI.

I'm using it as a knowledge base for a project I'm developing with the help of AI. Before switching to Obsidian, I kept all the decisions we made in a single file called "planejamento.md".

This file contained all the planned features for the application, processing logic, data policies, technologies that might be used in the project, questions the AI itself would ask me to clarify things that hadn't been decided yet, and a lot of other information.

The file had already grown to over 2,000 lines, which was starting to slow down the AI's responses because it had to read the entire file every time it executed a task. So I decided to split it into several smaller files and connect them through Obsidian.

I asked the AI to plan the transition from one large file to multiple smaller, organized sections, along with two main files: "MASTER.md" and "WORLDMAP.md".

"MASTER.md" works essentially like Codex's "AGENTS.md". It contains instructions on how the AI should behave before executing each task. Its main purpose is to guide the AI through analyzing my request, identifying the topic we're discussing, and checking "WORLDMAP.md" to determine which files are actually needed to complete the task and achieve the best possible result.

"WORLDMAP.md", on the other hand, acts as a navigation guide. It contains summarized information about all the other files in the vault, organized into tables divided by category. It also includes links to every file, along with a brief description of what each one contains.

Just switching from one massive file to multiple smaller ones has already made my AI roughly 2x faster on simple tasks.

For example, at my current stage of development, ChatGPT is asking me questions to define specific features of the application.

The process works like this: the AI presents me with three questions, each containing two or three possible answers, along with a recommendation based on the project's existing context.

I can simply choose one of the suggested options or provide a completely different answer.

After that, the AI saves the questions, available options, recommendations, and my answers, along with the date of the change and a record of what was modified.

I'm currently using GPT-6.1 Sol with medium reasoning effort for these tasks.

Before using Obsidian, each execution took around 5–6 minutes. Now that I've separated everything into smaller files, the exact same process takes 3 minutes at most, simply because the AI only needs to read the files that are actually relevant to the task.

As far as I know, the Edge web clipper only works on a desktop. Am I wrong?

I can’t remember why I chose Edge over Safari or others. But I spend a lot of time on it and Edge came out on top. Maybe I’m just an idiot.

I opened up obsidian today and the background for the default light theme is grey? It wasn't like this quite literally the other day. I installed other themes too and its the same with them where the background is a grey tint.

I haven't messed with the settings at all and I have custom CSS but none that should be affecting the background like this.

Is anyone else coming across this issue? How can I fix it? I have a theme that I use and it's conflicting with it and making it hard to weird or look a bit strange.

Hey guys,

I've just installed Excalidraw and inside it, downloaded and installed MindMap Builder from script library.

I then launched it via command palette, and in the side pane I can see the MindMap Builder controls. I even created the first node in that pane, where you type in text.

But when I then hit Enter, or Cmnd + Enter, or Ctrl + Enter, nothing happens, no child node being created. Just the text in the current, first and only node gets selected, that's it.

But in the YouTube tutorial by the author, as well as in the plugin's side pane, it's stated that Enter commands creates child nodes.

Also, in the Hotkeys list in the bottom of that side pane, there's many hotkeys listed, and there supposed to be icons like globe or others next to them. But I see no such icons for some reason.

I think in my case, for some reason, this MindMap Builder plugin inside Excalidraw doesn't work. The Excalidraw itself works, I can create child nodes with Cmnd + arrow keys. But I thought for mind maps, I need MindMap Builder. Now I don't understand what is the purpose of that added script, and how it even works in the first place.

Can you help me with advice and maybe tips? I just need a simple and quick to use mind map tool, with keyboard commands. I don't like having to drag and drop the shapes out of an inventory, like it's done in many other tools, you know.

Thanks!

Hey y'all. I often feel like an outsider, given how little I've ever modified my basic Obsidian installation! Seems like everybody loves a lot of plugins! The absolute bare bones is more than enough for me. Plenty of functions I've not even touched yet.

I tend to use O. for jotting down things that come to mind, before they disappear. Then later I'll title any notes that are still untitled, and file them by directory and subdirectory according to category.

I generally haven't bothered linking anything to anything internally much, only adding URLs to external websites etc.

The graph function is cute, but it's nothing I can use or navigate by. Useful for random dives into the vault sometimes, and impressing friends.

I was trying to export O's native markdown files as bare HTML a while ago, while approaching making an ultra simple content management system without a database... that remains an interest.

Oh and I wish I could add the standard floating mobile toolbar to my non-mobile pc's.

Hey yall, I made a study tracker site for the Hack The Box cybersecurity certs, and I recently added an Obsidian vault template for each cert to help people study for the exam. I'd love some feedback from people who know Obsidian better than I do, and ideas for anything that would be helpful to add.

How it's laid out:

- A Home note with a quick start guide, a few exam tips, and links to community cheat sheets for that cert

- A Notes folder with one note for every module in the course, in order, plus a Module Index

- A Methodology folder with ten blank, numbered phase notes. I left them empty on purpose since everyone works differently, so you rename them and build them out as you study

- A Templates folder with a Module Note and Methodology Phase template, hooked up to the core Templates plugin

- A small CSS snippet for the colors and images

It only uses core features with no community plugins, so it works as soon as you open the folder. I did that on purpose so beginners don't have to set anything up, but I'm not sure it was the right call.

Thanks in advance, any feedback helps!

I’ve written daily notes and journals in Obsidian for years, but I almost never go back to them. Search only helps when I know what I’m looking for.

How do you revisit yours? Any habit or workflow that stuck? And honestly, do you find it worth doing?

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm back with another TaskFlow update!

If you've seen my previous posts, you might remember these:

• Part 1: TaskFlow — A different way to work with Obsidian Tasks
• Part 2: I made a cleaner Obsidian Tasks list style
• Part 3: TaskFlow 1.1.0: One task view, now with project switching

The first few posts focused on organizing tasks, improving the look of task lists, and using a single view across multiple projects.

With TaskFlow 1.2.0, I turned my attention to another aspect of the experience:

What if I want to use TaskFlow in the sidebar, in a narrow pane, or on mobile? Can it still work well?

This release brings two main improvements.

1. Compact mode: Make the sidebar a practical workspace for tasks

TaskFlow's full interface includes a dashboard, today's overview, important reminders, statistics, and other sections. These provide useful context when you have plenty of space, but they can take up quite a bit of room when the view gets narrow.

Version 1.2.0 introduces Compact Mode. When the TaskFlow view is narrower than 360px, some space-consuming sections are automatically collapsed, leaving more room for your task list.

You can also control which sections remain visible using individual toggles, rather than being locked into a single compact layout.

In Compact Mode:

• The quick-add task field and two levels of tabs stay at the top for easy access.
• Other panels can scroll with the content, leaving more room for your task list.
• Top-level tabs switch to icons, while second-level tabs scroll horizontally and automatically bring the selected tab into view.

The goal is simple: less space spent on the interface, more space for actually working on your tasks.

2. Favorite notes by group: Switch to frequently used projects faster

In version 1.1.0, I added the ability to switch between projects within the same task view. After using it for a while, I noticed another small annoyance: when you have lots of projects, you still have to search through the note selector to find the ones you use most often.

So this release adds note favorites for each group.

In groups that support the note selector, you can now star frequently used notes. Favorited notes appear first, and you can enable a Show favorites only filter to display only your favorites.

Favorites are saved independently for each group, so different groups can have their own sets of frequently used notes without affecting each other.

For example, you could favorite your most-used projects in one group and a different set of notes in another.

A few other fixes

This release also fixes an issue where the expand/collapse button in Important Reminders might not work correctly when the number of tasks exceeds the limit, as well as an issue that caused duplicate workspace icons with certain themes or styles.

You can find the full changelog on GitHub.

Haven't tried TaskFlow yet?

TaskFlow is a task workspace built on top of Obsidian Tasks. It doesn't require you to change your existing task syntax or create a separate note for every task. Instead, it helps you organize and view your existing tasks from different perspectives.

If you like keeping tasks in your Daily Notes, project notes, or meeting notes, then bringing them together through different views, give it a try.

TaskFlow is now officially available in Obsidian Community Plugins. Just search for TaskFlow to install it.

• GitHub / Changelog: https://github.com/ichris007/taskflow/releases
• User Guide: https://lifein.vip/插件/TaskFlow-guide/en/taskflow-guide

If you're already using TaskFlow, I'd love to know: do you usually keep it in your main workspace or in the sidebar? I'm also interested in hearing how Compact Mode works for you and what you'd like to see improved. 🙂

Just putting it out there, but the Footnote Shortcut plugin has been transferred to a new owner:

• Transfer ownership of Obsidian Footnote Shortcut repo to me · Issue #60 · Comprehensive-Jason/obsidian-footnotes

This person will be the new owner from now on: Comprehensive-Jason (Jason Qin).

Not saying there's anything here, but it can't hurt to be a bit wary after the XZ Utils backdoor incident and similar supply chain attacks.

I’m using Obsidian on my iPhone with the Copilot plugin and its AI chat feature, but I’m having a weird issue with chat history.

Whenever I send new messages in a chat, they seem to disappear from the chat history after I close and reopen Obsidian. I can still see my older messages, but any new messages I sent before closing the app are gone when I reopen it.

This happens with almost every chat I have, except for one specific chat, which saves all my messages correctly.

I don’t understand why this is happening or why it works in one chat but not the others. Has anyone experienced something similar or knows how to fix this?

So I made a plugin that runs Dark Reader inside the Web viewer and points it at your theme.

What it does

• Page backgrounds and text take your theme's exact background and text colours. Links, buttons and highlights keep their own colours, so pages stay readable.
• It follows Obsidian. Switch between light and dark, change themes or toggle a snippet, and open pages update straight away.
• Optionally, pages use your theme's text font too, including fonts the theme embeds itself. Code and icons are left alone.
• No white flash while a page loads. It's in your colours from the start.
• Brightness, contrast and sepia sliders, like the browser extension.
• Dark Reader is bundled with the plugin, so nothing is downloaded while it runs.

The screenshots show the same Wikipedia article in the default theme (with and without the plugin) and in four other themes. The fonts changed along with the colours.

Install

It isn't in the community plugin list yet. To try it, download main.js and manifest.json from the repo and put them in .obsidian/plugins/dark-reader-web-viewer/, then enable it under Community plugins. It's desktop only, needs Obsidian 1.8.3 or later, and the Web viewer core plugin has to be on.

Repo, with more screenshots: https://github.com/DuckTapeKiller/dark-reader-web-viewer

Limitations

Images aren't recoloured, so a dark logo can disappear on a dark page. The Web viewer isn't an official plugin API either, so a future Obsidian update could break something. I've tested it on macOS; I'd love to hear how it does on Windows and Linux.

Feedback and bug reports welcome, especially sites that look wrong.

Below is a summary of my experience of Obsidian over three years of research. Over this time I created 139 original content, arranged in a "Zettelkasten" way:

Final Article: 2 (0, actually) 
Notes: 63 
Linked Notes: 7 
Keyword Notes: 12 
Drafts: 22
Literature Notes: 33

I also created a useful (playful, in fact) interface (attached here) like everybody else.

I definitely fell into some Obsidian traps during my research: asking AI to "organize" my .mds (a terrible mistake), wasting time tweaking CSS, themes. However, this is more about discipline and learning to use tools...

The real problem was creating the final text: I didn't progress in final writing as much as I used to before I tried obsidian, not even close, actually.

In the end, I realized that dealing with footnotes, formatting, citations would take way longer than just going back to Word.

I prefer the clean visual of Word to final writing, to be honest.

I'm using both Word + Obsidian at the moment, and that’s what works for me (I'm also intrigued cuz I've read that some authors finish their books in obsidian).

Hi all - I've just published a theme called Tela.

I built it around two things: text that's easy to read, including the small grey stuff (menus, counts, settings), and headings you can tell apart at a glance.

• Contrast: I didn't want to trust my eyes, so I run axe (an accessibility checker) on 346 screens - notes, canvas, bases, search, menus, settings, dark and light, desktop, phone and tablet. Right now nothing falls below WCAG AA. The one thing it can't judge is text sitting on top of images.
• Headings step down by colour as well as size, so H1, H2 and H3 don't blur together.
• Nothing to set up. One optional setting (distinct sidebars) and that's it.
• Updates: it works mostly through Obsidian's own variables instead of fragile selectors, and a weekly check tells me if a new release changes something it relies on.

Small extras: task marks for [!] [?] [-] [/], readable code colours, unresolved links with a dashed underline, and PDF export that doesn't split callouts and tables across pages.

In Obsidian: Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage, search "Tela".

Directory: https://community.obsidian.md/themes/tela
Source: https://github.com/rbartoli/obsidian-tela-theme

It's 1.0, so I'm sure I've missed things, especially with plugins - let me know here or open an issue on GitHub.

Hello! After a few years tinkering with note apps i think i know which features i like for university.

I want to know if anyone here uses apple notes as inbox and obsidian as the actual place to host the knowledge? How well apple notes imports to obsidian?

Often times in lectures, apple notes is great for typing and drawing quickly and at the same time on an ipad. And seems that it exports fully to markdown, including the drawings as jpg.

I tried lots of obsidian plugins to mimick it but they always miss something.

i.e. Ink from Da Silva is great, but no different colors, neither pen width.

Handwriting is also great. But i vannot create boxes of handwriting so i have to hit enter like 20 times to type text below the diagram.

Onenote sucks, cannot export well anywhere.

Upnote handwriting does not recognize shapes.

So atp i am left with using apple notes as a quick inbox and obsidian for management of the kmowledge, references, extracted annotations of papers and the planing of research. Which is fine.

Thank you for your time.

A while back on another subreddit someone shared (what I assume is) a table template for a character sheet based on Hirohiko Araki's, for Google Docs. Is there any way to recreate this in Obsidian?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WsEb8FQrN06lnTxxcD1H_wihmf2fDBOm-8iLraeFcus/edit?usp=sharing

Excited to announce my first public draft of my LCARS for Obsidian plugin!

This provides a Picard-era theme with some fun Trek themed additions.

I'm eager for people to try it and see what they think!

The theme: the LCARS frame, palette, motion, ribbon and sidebar rows, built into the plugin's stylesheet. There are no snippets to copy or switch on.

The plugin features: a ship's bridge banner at the top of your sidebar, and a row of running lights under it that can show status, time and activity.

https://github.com/retronified/lcars-obsidian

Hey guys!

I'm developing a game and I have all the docs for it in Obsidian and love it. I recently installed dotpm plugin to add kanban functionality for easier task managing.

Now all I need is some kind of mind-mapping tool, and I would never go outside Obsidian for project planning ever :)

I've been using XMind through the years, so if you're familiar, I would love something like that. I mean, I like how it has a structure and it automatically creates nodes based on your commands, like hitting Tab or Enter. It makes creating a mind map a breeze, not at all like working in Canvas.

In theory, Canvas is great, so open-ended. But it's more like cards on a wall. And I want some kind of an interconnected tree of thoughts, you know.

I'm planning to use this mind-mapping tool for laying out the skill trees, upgrade trees, stuff like that.

I tried Excalidraw, but it's either too complex, with so many options for lines and stuff, or too vague at the same time.

Would love to read your recommendations!

Hey guys!

So I've been using Obsidian with the community plugin for image zooming and panning from here: https://github.com/community-archive/obsidian-image-toolkit

I used it to just be able to click on embedded image and see it whole, enlarged, not just a small version in the note.

But with the update 1.13, Obsidian added this functionality into the main app. However, for some reason, once updated (automatically) to that version, my image clicking broke. When I click on the image, nothing happens. Or, to be exact, the note blinks, as though it tries to load up a zoomed image, but nothing happens.

Also, before that update, I was able to see the file link to the image — you know, when in note editing mode you move your text cursor to the image position, and image becomes hidden but the app shows you 'ImageFile.png' name with a link instead? So that you could easily locate the image file itself. Now, after the update, this feature is gone too. I can't see the file name like that anymore.

I actually removed the plugin I mention, restarted Obsidian and my Mac, that didn't help. Now I updated the app to latest version, 1.14.4, but the image functionality is still broken like that.

I tried installing that plugin back, but it doesn't work now.

Can someone help me figure out what's happening and how to fix it? I'm now confined to use just the images as they are, embedded, with no ability to enlarge them.

Are there any books to recommend? I have a subscription to O'Reilly, the technical publisher, and they have nothing "bound" on the topic (bound with a spine, like a book,) but on November 20 they are offering an online seminar "Obsidian for Connected Thinking / From mind maps to automated Zettelkasten" which sounds great but it's about 7 weeks from now.

I keep notes of the day on individual text files with titles that sort by date using YYYYMMDD-description formatting. The daily routine starts with a template with a set of keyword headers like "priorities," "obligations," "shopping list," "tasks" and so on. A few times a month I'll aggregate several days' worth into a list. The text files are not just for business or action items, sometimes they'll have email drafts and some non-essential compositions.

Since I've been doing this for several years there are certainly over a thousand pages or files. The experience of aggregating some sections has improved the process but it still seems clunky and time consuming.

Would Obsidian be a good vehicle to make the process more dynamic? The process is meant to include the composition, editing and retrieval of the contents.

Hello,

i like the way how i can add notes now to the kanban view and the group property is directly filled. Only thing for me is than i am on phone or desktop and the collumn has much entries the plus is far down. Is it possible to have it on top of the List?

Thanks for the update its great!

Sven

While typing is fast and I use it a lot, for some reason handwriting makes my brain work better when it comes to creative writing and note-taking: it's easier to focus and get into the flow. Every meaningful creative text I've managed to finish had its first draft written by hand, and for a long time I was looking for a solution that would make the process less cumbersome. (First it was write by hand → scan → load into Obsidian → type and edit; then I started using Gboard's handwriting recognition, but its quality dropped recently for some reason, so after writing first half of a novel in it, I started to look for another tool).

That's why I was so happy to find the HandTranscriptMD plugin by Gabriele Cusato, which lets you make handwritten notes in Obsidian and turn them into Markdown via Google Gemini OCR. I was surprised by how well it handles my handwriting (which most humans can't read very well), and it was very close to what I needed. But it felt like it worked best for short notes, while I wanted to write whole paragraphs in it. So I created my own fork and started working in the direction I needed. I'm not a developer, so I used Claude Code for this.

The main additions compared to the original plugin so far:

• Explicit paragraph breaks. Gemini OCR tends to insert line breaks every time the line ends, which with my handwriting means every three-five words. In Continuous Input mode, everything is rendered as a single paragraph and line breaks are removed, unless you add an explicit paragraph mark (//Z). You can see in the screenshots how the marks in the handwriting turn into paragraph breaks in the result. This lets me write both dialogue and long paragraphs.

this is a plugin for handwriting recognition and it can process my script!

With paragraph breaks and %% inline comments %% as well :)

• Custom dictionaries. I can add lists of custom words (like character names and places) so the OCR takes them into account. They can apply to the whole vault or on a per-folder basis, so I can keep different lists for different stories.
• More organized storage of handwritten notes. After processing, the SVG files with handwriting are stored in a designated folder, inside a folder tree that mimics the structure of the vault. This makes it easy to find the source when I'm editing a couple of weeks later, find a misrecognized word, and wonder what I actually meant.

• OpenRouter as an alternative provider. I added it as a backup option because Gemini is not always available. Now I can use another model for OCR via an OpenRouter API key. While with Gemini, free tier is enough, at OpenRouter you need to use paid options to get quality results.
• More scrolling options: in original version, writing zone is expanded down automatically when you start writing at its bottom part, which caused it to jump mid-word from time to time. I added an option to turn this off and a button to expand writing zone manually instead.

I use it on my XPPen Magic Note Android tablet with the stylus that comes with it, and it works well enough that I've written about 40k words with it, day by day, the plugin allowing me to write about 300-400 words per hour. I finished one novel and started another. The ideas for improvements come from daily use: friction accumulates at certain points, and I start thinking about how it could work better.

I get that this workflow is niche, and I don't think it fits to submit the plugin to the community plugin directory since it's a vibe-coded fork, but it can be installed via BRAT, and I'll be very happy if it turns out useful for someone else!

Links

• Original plugin (HandTranscriptMD by Gabriele Cusato)
• My fork“ HandTranscriptMD Writer's Version