Obsidian Plugins Showcase - Feb 27th, 2025
Another week, another batch of game-changing Obsidian plugins! Whether you’re fine-tuning your workflow, improving your note-taking efficiency, or adding a touch of automation, these new additions have something for everyone.
- Missing Link File Creator
- Timecodes
- Note Zoom
- BibDesk Integration
- AI Revisionist
- Plugin Update Locker
- Kikijiki Habit Tracker
- Dataview Autocompletion
- Image Preview on Icon Hover
- Clone Vault
- WhatsApp Backup Importer
- NetClip
Missing Link File Creator⌗
Missing Link File Creator is a plugin designed to streamline the process of managing uncreated note links in Obsidian.
Key Insights:
- Automatic File Creation: Detects missing internal links and generates the corresponding files.
- Customization Options: Allows users to specify where the new notes should be stored.
- Efficiency Boost: Helps maintain a structured vault by preventing broken or orphaned links.
Ideal for users who frequently create interlinked notes and want a seamless way to manage them without manually creating each file.
Timecodes⌗
The Timecodes plugin helps users efficiently manage and insert timecodes in their notes, particularly useful for working with audio or video content.
Key Insights:
- Easy Timecode Insertion: Quickly add timestamps to notes for referencing specific moments in media files.
- Customizable Format: Supports different timecode formats to match user preferences.
- Enhanced Note-Taking: Ideal for journalists, researchers, and content creators who work with recorded material.
Perfect for anyone who needs precise time-referenced notes while reviewing audio or video.
Note Zoom⌗
Note Zoom improves focus and navigation by enabling users to zoom in and out within notes. It saves the zoom level in the note’s properties, allowing each note to have its own custom zoom setting.
Key Insights:
- Section Zooming: Focus on specific parts of a note by zooming in, hiding other content.
- Improved Navigation: Stores the zoom level in the note’s properties, enabling a unique zoom setting for each note.
Ideal for users who work with extensive notes and want a distraction-free writing or reviewing experience.
BibDesk Integration⌗
BibDesk Integration is a plugin that seamlessly connects the macOS BibDesk application with Obsidian, enhancing the management of academic references and associated PDFs within your notes.
Key Insights:
- Seamless PDF Access: Leverages BibDesk’s
bdsk-file-<NUMBER>fields, which function as macOS bookmarks, ensuring reliable access to linked PDFs even if files are renamed or relocated. - Optimized for BibDesk Users: While supporting general BibTeX parsing, the plugin is specifically tailored for libraries managed with BibDesk on macOS.
- External Library Compatibility: Allows your BibDesk library to reside outside the Obsidian vault, accommodating large collections without compromising performance.
Ideal for researchers and academics seeking efficient integration between BibDesk and Obsidian to streamline their reference management and note-taking workflows.
AI Revisionist⌗
Revisionist is an AI-powered plugin designed to enhance your writing within Obsidian. It allows users to seamlessly refine and polish their text directly within their notes.
Key Features:
- One-Click AI Revisions: Highlight any portion of your text and let Revisionist provide instant, polished suggestions.
- Customizable Instructions: Guide the AI with specific directions to tailor revisions according to your needs.
- User-Friendly Access: Available on both mobile and desktop platforms, accessible via the ribbon icon, command palette, or context menu.
- Word Count Guidance: Assists in maintaining optimal text lengths to ensure effective AI performance.
- Error Notifications: Offers clear feedback when settings or inputs require adjustment.
Ideal for writers, researchers, and professionals seeking to improve their writing efficiency and quality within Obsidian.
Plugin Update Locker⌗
Plugin Update Locker is a plugin that prevents automatic updates of selected Obsidian plugins, ensuring stability and avoiding unwanted changes.
Key Features:
- Lock Plugin Versions – Prevents specific plugins from updating automatically.
- Selective Control – Choose which plugins to lock while allowing others to update.
- Enhanced Stability – Helps maintain a stable workflow by avoiding unexpected changes in critical plugins.
- Easy Management – Simple interface to lock/unlock updates as needed.
Kikijiki Habit Tracker⌗
Kikijiki Habit Tracker is a plugin designed to help users track their habits directly within Obsidian. It allows users to create habits that will show in a calendar sidebar widget, making it easier to monitor and visualize progress over time.
Key Features:
- Customizable Habits – Create habits to track specific behaviors or routines.
- Visual Progress Tracking – View your progress in a sidebar widget with checkboxes and automatic updates for each habit.
- Integrated with Obsidian Workflow – Seamlessly integrates with your Obsidian vault, allowing you to keep everything in one place.
Dataview Autocompletion⌗
Dataview Autocompletion enhances the Dataview experience by providing autocomplete suggestions for metadata fields within the editor. This feature streamlines the process of reusing existing fields and minimizes typing errors.
Key Features:
- Inline Metadata Autocomplete: Offers suggestions for inline metadata fields, facilitating consistent and error-free data entry.
- Customization Options: Allows users to specify fields and files to ignore during autocompletion, tailoring the experience to individual workflows.
By integrating seamlessly with Obsidian, Dataview Autocompletion enhances productivity and ensures uniformity in metadata usage.
Image Preview on Icon Hover⌗
Image Preview On Icon Hover enhances the user experience by displaying a preview of linked images when hovering over their corresponding icons. This feature provides a quick way to view images without opening them manually.
Key Features:
- Instant Image Preview: Hovering over an image icon reveals a preview, improving navigation efficiency.
- Streamlined Workflow: Eliminates the need to open files individually, making it easier to browse image-heavy notes.
- User-Friendly Interaction: Enhances visual feedback and reduces friction when working with media-rich content.
This plugin is ideal for users who frequently work with images in Obsidian and want a more seamless way to preview them.
Clone Vault⌗
Clone Vault simplifies the process of duplicating entire vaults, including notes, attachments, and settings. It provides an efficient way to create backups, experiment with new workflows, or share vault structures without manual copying.
Key Features:
- One-Click Vault Duplication: Easily clone an entire Obsidian vault, preserving its structure and content.
- Customizable Cloning Options: Select specific files, folders, or configurations to include in the copy.
- Effortless Backup Creation: Ideal for maintaining safe backups or testing new setups without affecting the original vault.
This plugin is perfect for users who need a reliable way to duplicate vaults for backup, collaboration, or experimentation.
WhatsApp Backup Importer⌗
WhatsApp Backup Importer is a plugin designed to seamlessly import WhatsApp chat backups into Obsidian. It converts exported WhatsApp chats into structured Markdown notes, making them easy to organize, search, and integrate with existing workflows.
Key Features:
- WhatsApp Chat to Markdown: Transforms exported chats into well-formatted Obsidian notes.
- Preserves Metadata: Keeps timestamps and sender information for better context.
- Search & Organization: Allows integration with Obsidian’s powerful linking and search features.
- Supports Multiple Chats: Import and manage multiple conversations efficiently.
This plugin is ideal for users who want to archive, analyze, or reference their WhatsApp conversations within Obsidian.
NetClip⌗
NetClip allows users to quickly capture and save web content into their Obsidian vault. It streamlines the process of collecting and organizing online information directly into Markdown notes.
Key Features:
- Web Clipping to Obsidian: Save text, images, and links from web pages into Markdown.
- Customizable Storage: Choose where and how clipped content is saved in your vault.
- Seamless Workflow Integration: Works efficiently with Obsidian’s note-taking and linking features.
- Quick Access & Organization: Ensures easy retrieval and structuring of saved web content.
This plugin is ideal for researchers, writers, and knowledge workers who need to gather and manage online information effortlessly.
Themes⌗
Brief⌗
Old World⌗
Material 3⌗
