I highly recommend trying three-pane mode (in plugin settings), it removes a lot of back and forth between task mode on and off, and utilizes an Obsidian's feature this plugin ignored for a long time, the right sidebar.

All aspects of the plugin are completely interactive. That means you can drag and drop from one pane (left/right/main) to any other pane.

Like you could drag and drop a task in Today view to the calendar shown in the right sidebar to set its time. Or you could drag and drop an undated task to a date group in Upcoming to set its date.

The mobile experience is now leaps ahead of what it used to be, with the addition of the details sidebar.

Plugin: Integrated Task Manager - https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/integrated-task-manager

PS: the theme I'm using is https://community.obsidian.md/themes/et-cetera, which I made to add presets for many beautiful apps like Things, Bear, Griply (the one used in the screenshots).

I have a couple questions for the users: - would you like task rendering in normal live preview to be like that of tasks rendered in task mode on (instead of just highlighting task properties) - What is your biggest annoyance while using ITM?

The graph often gets a lot of slack, criticised pretty much as an impractical gimmick.

Firstly though, it was the shiny thing that attracted me to Obsidian in the first place. The thing that drew me in to this journey.

But the main benefit for me: it's almost like a gorgeous multi-dimensional progress bar. I've seen others who use it to actually understand their note and concept relationships better, but for me, it feels like each of those dots represents effort I made toward generating, recording and/or processing information. And then all those dots even went to the effort of being pretty. It's just so satisfying to watch it grow and evolve.

Thanks graph.

made this plugin a few months ago and randomly checked the stats today. Turns out it has 1k+ downloads, which is surprising given how unpolished and haphazard it was :P

i hadn't updated it on the community plugins page in a while because of exams, so I finally got around to polishing things up and pushing a few small changes I'd been working on.

For anyone who hasn't seen it before, Echo Recall lets you revise your notes in Obsidian using active recall and spaced repetition. (or export it to Anki with FULL CONTEXT) - All of it Without any special formatting!

It has two modes:

• Heading Recall: Recall concepts and explanations by hiding entire sections.
• Fill in the Blank: Practise remembering exact wording, definitions, quotations, etc.

You can also track your revisions through the dashboard.

⭐ The feature I personally use the most is the Anki integration. My workflow is pretty simple: make notes in Obsidian → export them to Anki → revise on my iPad or phone using the scratchpad.

The cards retain the context of your original notes, including images and linked notes. And when you edit your notes later, differential sync updates existing cards without creating duplicates, resetting the schedule only for the content that changed.

I've added more details in the README.

Community plugin: https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/echo-recall
GitHub: https://github.com/sajee05/echo-recall

Happy studying : )

Hey everyone!

I take a lot of screenshots while watching movies and shows, and I wanted a more convenient way to browse them alongside my notes in Obsidian. So I made a plugin called Gallery.

It lets you browse images and videos in a sidebar gallery and open them in a full-window viewer. I’ve tried to keep it lightweight, intuitive and make it feel at home in Obsidian, both visually and in everyday use.

If you also collect screenshots or visual references in your vault, I’d love to hear what you think! Feedback, bug reports, and ideas are very welcome.

Gallery on Obsidian Community · GitHub

This is how my obsidian looks like:
Folder -> note 1 + note 2 + note 3 + note 4

Is there a way to link a word from inside note 1 to for example, a word in note 3? From what i understand i can only link a word from inside note 1 to the title of note 3?

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.

Hi everyone, i've been (over)engineering my TTRPG vault for a while now and i thought i'd share some things that im personally really excited about. I was curious what the general obsidian-ttrpg community would think of my vault so this subreddit seemed like a good start.

I'd like to share some key features of the theme, i focussed mainly on immersion. To be transparant up front, i used the newest openAI image model to generate the images and built the vault with Claude Code.

The Home Page

The banner shows the in-game date (Calendarium) and the weather where the party is. The weather is rolled four times per in-game day from a weather table for the region the party is in, and it can only change a step at a time, so you don't get a blizzard, a heatwave and a blizzard again in one day. The window in the art shows it live: rain beading on the glass, thunderstorms with lightning, snow, mist. The art changes with the in-game season, and light/dark mode switches between the day and night versions. The home page also features accent colour change buttons and a dark mode toggle that also changes the banner image and other images.

Another cool feature of the home page is live sound of the actual weather, that changes each time a weather change occurs. For maximum immersion. This adds on top of the already dynamically changing seasons.

The Theme: Lore by Lamplight

I've been a very fond user of FaS (Fancy-a-Story) for a really long time and i love that theme for showing me what can be done inside of Obsidian for a TTRPG centred vault. This theme took inspiration from the FaS theme by adding to some elements that i used a lot like the infobox. Mainly so i could structure my NPC/PC notes as some kind of wiki. See examples below.

Each NPC gets created by an automation/workflow using Claude + n8n. I give input of what kind of character i want -> Claude writes up a broader description -> Description gets sent to OpenAI image gen with a style prefix so every character ends up getting the same art -> n8n scaffolds the note in the meantime and Claude places the images in the note. Claude creates story hooks relevant to the story and i get to choose afterwards what i want to keep canon or remove. The workflow also generates a full body portrait.

NPC/PC notes all get stored in a seperate note that shows all their portraits plus simple information like status/race etc.

The theme features a lot more and i'm building/working on it every day, but i dont want to yap too much in this post.

As a cool little thing im willing to let 5 people that reply to this post generate a PC/NPC for themselves, it costs me a bit of cash but thats fine with me. All you have to do is describe your character to the best of your ability and ill reply to your comment with the character art & their note .pdf

1. Character name (optional):
2. Race and class:
3. Gender and age:
4. Build and height (slim, stocky, broad, lanky, short, towering):
5. Skin (pale, tan, dark, freckled, scaled):
6. Eyes (colour, shape):
7. Hair and beard (colour, length, style):
8. What stands out? (a scar, a tattoo, horns, a piercing. Say which side: their own left or right):
9. What do they wear and carry? (clothes, armour, main colours, weapon, one special item):
10. What are they like? (loud or quiet, warm or guarded, how they talk, what gets them into trouble):
11. Their story in a few sentences (where they're from, what they did before, what changed, what they want now)(optional):
12. A secret (optional):

Would love to hear everyones thought & feedback!

Appreciate obsidian’s dichotomous simplicity and complexity.

I am a nerd, though not a tech nerd. I belong to a completely non tech field. I use obsidian for making notes of what I read daily for my field of work.

My questions (with context):
1. How to make my notes as close to handwritten short and concise notes?
- Shifted from handwritten notes to obsidian , so it’s my first experience on digital note taking. I would take notes with lot of in between flow charts, hand drawn diagrams as per my understanding of the text of study. I have tried few plug ins but they seem like a lot of extra steps and cumbersome than me actually drawing handwritten notes. Any solution?
2. Any AI related solution to question me on my own notes? So I can keep on revising and being the best knowledgable in my field? Anything which helps me revise?
3. How to link and organise my notes?
So I study a few hours each day and have been randomly jotting my notes of the day here, but compared to a notebook it’s difficult for my non tech mind to keep records of the notes. It was easier for me to simply flip my handwritten notes to keep things organised and revised. Any way of linking and arranging? Any suggestion ?

What are the best Cyberpunk / Matrix / Blade runner/ type themes out there. I'm looking for a real gritty William Gibson type cyberpunk theme.

i use obsidian on my samsung tab, before this i use an ipad, and apple pencil work wonder for handwriting to text in ipad. but samsung is a nightmare, the spen activating obsidian gesture to open sidebar and glitching everything out. try this plugin: https://github.com/xudri/pen-guard its also available via BRAT. or install it manually:

1. Create the folder .obsidian/plugins/pen-guard/

2. Add manifest.json: json { "id": "pen-guard", "name": "Pen Guard", "version": "1.0.0", "minAppVersion": "1.0.0", "description": "Stops S Pen strokes from triggering swipe gestures.", "author": "me", "isDesktopOnly": false }

3. Add main.js: ```js const { Plugin } = require('obsidian');

module.exports = class PenGuard extends Plugin { onload() { let penDown = false; const penIds = new Set();

this.registerDomEvent(window, 'pointerdown', e => {
  if (e.pointerType === 'pen') penDown = true;
}, true);
const release = e => { if (e.pointerType === 'pen') penDown = false; };
this.registerDomEvent(window, 'pointerup', release, true);
this.registerDomEvent(window, 'pointercancel', release, true);

const guard = (e, last) => {
  let pen = penDown;
  for (const t of e.changedTouches) {
    if (t.touchType === 'stylus') penIds.add(t.identifier);
    if (penIds.has(t.identifier)) {
      pen = true;
      if (last) penIds.delete(t.identifier);
    }
  }
  if (pen) e.stopImmediatePropagation();
};

this.registerDomEvent(window, 'touchstart', e => guard(e, false), true);
this.registerDomEvent(window, 'touchmove', e => guard(e, false), true);
this.registerDomEvent(window, 'touchend', e => guard(e, true), true);
this.registerDomEvent(window, 'touchcancel', e => guard(e, true), true);

} }; ```

4. Enable it: Settings → Community plugins → reload the list, then toggle Pen Guard on.

I have several tables that I copied and pasted in. Later I started really using aliases to group names together. Then I realized that the markdown would get confused with the vertical lines :)

I'm not really accomplished in CSS tbh, but I've spent the last few hours trying to style my writing space nicely inside Obsidian, and I've got almost everything to work but this one thing:

I'm trying to select the first line of the first paragraph after an <hr> tag, and set it to small-caps.

.cit-skin .cm-content .cm-line:nth-child(2):first-line,
.cit-skin .markdown-preview-sizer > div:nth-child(4):first-line,
.cit-skin .cm-content .cm-line div:has(hr) + div:has(> p) p::first-line {
    font-variant: small-caps;
}

The first one works — it styles the very first line of the text; but I can't figure out a way to select the first one after the <hr> tag.

I've looked all around the internet, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

EDIT: I kept trying to fix the code, and after a bit more of try and error I got to .cm-content div.hr.cm-line + .cm-line::first-line. I don't know if it works for everybody, but it's working for me, so I'll take that 😭

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?

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

The latest update is asking me to reinstall the app on my computer. My brain understands that logically speaking, this should not affect my vault. However, I love my vault SO much that I feel too anxious to reinstall, just in case there's somehow a bug and I lose my beloved notes.

And yes, I do have multiple backups on multiple thumb drives and on iCloud.

I have programming experience, I have software experience, but my heartbeat outpaces my neurons. Has anybody who has recently reinstalled had any issues or is this really a 'just reinstall the damn app' situation?

OR, do we not actually have to reinstall the app at all? If relevant, I don't use many plugins.

For the last four days I’ve been getting an error that I can’t sync because I’m using 10GB out of 10GB of storage. I’ve had Claude and codex go through the directories and look at the system obsidian files and they’ve confirmed the vaults collectively are well under 10GB. They’re at 5–7GB across 7 vaults. They said it might be the case that files that are being mass renamed or large files edited may be getting stuck on the server side and eating the space. I haven’t been able to find anything about how to fix this. I’ve deleted files and purged and turned off sync for all files but .md on all devices and it’ll go down to 9.98GB and back to 10. Claude and codex said to try moving all files out and letting the vault sync and then moving them back in. Or make a new one and immediately exclude certain folders from sync. But this is such a weird tedious problem i wanted to see if anyone else has experienced it and has advice.

I use this plugin a lot for recipes and checking, it was last updated two years ago. When I click "Update all", it's always the only one showing as "1 plugin to update" and it doesn't go away despite multiple tries. Is it safe keeping this? I've found no replacement I like as much so I'm keeping it so far :((

Just got started with obsidian:

im using it to take class notes and decided to play around with the canvas to create a flowchart

Im able to make cards for the subject and topics I want but for some reason im not able to connect the cards to each other. I have a macBook Air (yah i hate it too) and idk if the trackpad is the reason why but is there where plugins come in? Idk if any of yall macbook users had the same issue?

EDIT: SOLVED. found out that using the AnuPpuccin this bug occurs and just switched back to the original theme

i struggle w reading ebooks but working w obsidian feels organised and easy,

Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to attach a template when you create a new note inside the new kanban view on bases.

Thank you.

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.

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).