Obsidian Plugins Showcase - Mar 10th, 2025
Welcome to this week’s Obsidian Plugin Showcase, where we dive into the latest and greatest plugins that can supercharge your note-taking experience in Obsidian! Whether you’re looking for better data visualization, automation, or improved media handling, there’s something in store for you.
Let’s explore this week’s featured plugins:
🔥 Featured Obsidian Plugins This Week⌗
- DataCards
- Plugin repl
- WhatsApp Export Note
- Tag Tactician
- Spacekeys
- Media Companion
- Extended Graph
- Readeck Importer
- Pixel Perfect Image
- MCP Tools
- AI Providers
- Folder Overview
- Themes
DataCards⌗
The DataCards plugin transforms Dataview query results into visually appealing, customizable card layouts. It enhances data organization and readability within Obsidian by offering an alternative to traditional table views.
Key Insights:
- Visualize Dataview results as cards – Present structured data in a more intuitive format.
- Customizable layouts – Adjust styling with presets like portrait or landscape modes.
- Supports images – Display media (e.g., book covers, profile pictures) within cards.
- Flexible queries – Use Dataview syntax to pull and organize information dynamically.
This plugin is ideal for users managing collections (books, projects, notes) who want an elegant, structured way to display information. 🚀
Plugin Repl⌗
Plugin REPL is an Obsidian plugin that provides a Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) for executing JavaScript code within the Obsidian environment. It allows developers to interactively test and debug scripts, making plugin development more efficient.
Key Insights:
- Live JavaScript Execution – Run code snippets within Obsidian to test and debug plugins in real-time.
- REPL Console – Provides an interactive environment similar to a browser’s DevTools console.
- Immediate Feedback – Execute commands and instantly see the output, making development and troubleshooting faster.
- Plugin Development Tool – Ideal for Obsidian plugin developers who need a sandbox for testing code without restarting Obsidian.
This tool is especially useful for developers experimenting with the Obsidian API, automation scripts, or quick prototyping. 🚀
WhatsApp Export Note⌗
WhatsApp Export Note makes it easy to export your Obsidian notes to WhatsApp by converting Markdown into WhatsApp’s supported format.
Key Insights:
- Convert Markdown to WhatsApp Format – Ensures proper formatting for bold, italic, and lists.
- Easily Share Notes – Send well-structured messages directly from Obsidian to WhatsApp.
- Keeps Formatting Intact – Maintains headings, bullet points, and emphasis as intended.
- Boosts Productivity – Quickly share meeting notes, ideas, or important reminders with contacts.
This plugin is perfect for users who want a fast and efficient way to share Obsidian notes with colleagues, friends, or groups on WhatsApp. 📲✍️
Tag Tactician⌗
Tag Tactician enhances tag organization and navigation, providing a structured way to manage and analyze tags within your vault, allowing users to easily bulk edit the tags of multiple notes.
Key Insights:
- Bulk Tag Operations – Edit frontmatter tags for a single or multiple notes
- Related Notes View – Helps users explore connections between notes by displaying notes that share similar tags
- Tag Navigation view – Displays an organized list of all tags in your vault, making it easier to see their structure. If you’re using a hierarchical tagging system (e.g.,
#project/work), you can navigate through nested tags effortlessly.
Ideal for users who rely on tag-based organization, this plugin brings a powerful and intuitive way to categorize and retrieve notes in Obsidian. 🚀
Spacekeys⌗
The SpaceKeys plugin improves keyboard navigation by allowing users to trigger commands and actions using simple sequences of keypresses. It works by triggering a single customizable leader hotkey (such as Ctrl + M, set by the user), followed by a key sequence tied to a particular command, like “i l” for insert → link.
Key Insights:
- Customizable Shortcuts – Assign keybindings to various commands for quicker access.
- Faster Workflow – Reduce reliance on complex key combinations by using intuitive keybindings sequences.
- Improves Accessibility – Enhances navigation for users who prefer keyboard-driven workflows.
- Seamless Integration – Works alongside existing hotkeys without conflicts.
Ideal for power users who want a more fluid and efficient way to interact with Obsidian using just the spacebar! 🔥
Media Companion⌗
Media Companion is a plugin designed to enhance media file management within your Obsidian vault by creating a gallery of all your media files and allowing you to search through them. Additionally, it generates sidecar files for each media file, enabling you to add notes, tags, and other metadata.
Key Features:
- Media Gallery Creation: Automatically compiles a gallery of all media files in your vault, facilitating easy browsing and selection.
- Search Functionality: Allows searching through media files based on folders, tags, or file types, improving accessibility and organization.
- Sidecar Files for Metadata: Generates sidecar Markdown files for each media file, enabling the addition of notes, tags, and other metadata without altering the original media files.
Media Companion is a valuable tool for users seeking to integrate and manage media files within Obsidian, offering enhanced organization and accessibility through gallery creation, search functionality, and metadata management.
Extended Graph⌗
Extended Graph is a community-developed plugin designed to enhance Obsidian’s core graph functionality by introducing additional features.
Key Features:
- Image Integration: Allows users to add images to graph nodes, enriching visual representation.
- Advanced Filtering: Facilitates filtering by tags and properties for more precise graph views.
- Link Management: Enables the removal of links based on relationship types, offering a cleaner graph structure.
- Multiple View Configurations: Supports setting up various graph views tailored to different analytical needs.
Extended Graph provides users with enhanced control over their graph visualizations, offering features like image integration, advanced filtering, and customizable views to improve data representation within Obsidian.
Explorer Colors⌗
Explorer Colors is a plugin that enhances the Obsidian file explorer by allowing users to apply customizable colors to files and folders. This visual organization tool helps improve navigation and categorization within the vault.
Key Insights:
- Custom Color Coding: Assign unique colors to specific files or folders to enhance visibility and categorization.
- Flexible Configuration: Users can define color rules via CSS classes or YAML frontmatter.
- Improved Vault Organization: Makes identifying and grouping files easier, enhancing productivity and aesthetics.
- Lightweight & Non-Intrusive: Integrates seamlessly with the Obsidian interface without affecting core functionalities.
Ideal for users who want to visually distinguish files and folders for better organization and workflow management.
Readeck Importer⌗
Readeck Importer is a plugin that enables users to seamlessly import their saved bookmarks from Readeck into their Obsidian vault. This integration allows for enhanced organization and annotation of bookmarks within Obsidian’s note-taking environment.
Key Features:
- Direct Bookmark Import: Fetches bookmarks directly from Readeck, ensuring up-to-date synchronization.
- Customizable Storage: Allows users to designate a specific folder within their Obsidian vault for storing imported bookmarks, facilitating organized management.
- Optional Metadata Inclusion: Provides the choice to include additional metadata with each bookmark, enriching the context and utility of saved links.
The Readeck Importer plugin offers a streamlined solution for integrating Readeck bookmarks into Obsidian, enhancing the user’s ability to organize, annotate, and manage their saved web content within a unified platform.
Pixel Perfect Image⌗
Pixel Perfect Image is an Obsidian plugin designed to enhance image management within notes by providing precise resizing options and additional functionalities.
Key Features:
- Exact Pixel Resizing: Right-click on any image to resize it to specific pixel dimensions or predefined percentages (e.g., 100%, 50%, 25%).
- Mouse Wheel Support: Allows quick resizing using the mouse wheel while holding the Alt/Option key for intuitive adjustments.
- Image Details Access: Provides detailed information about images, such as dimensions and file size, directly within Obsidian.
- File Operations Integration: Enables actions like copying images to the clipboard or opening them in external editors (e.g., Photoshop, Affinity Photo) for advanced editing.
Pixel Perfect Image enhances the image-handling capabilities of Obsidian, offering users precise control over image sizing and convenient access to additional image operations, thereby streamlining the note-taking and editing process.
MCP Tools⌗
MCP Tools is a plugin that enables AI applications, such as Claude Desktop, to securely access and interact with your Obsidian vault using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Key Features:
- Semantic Search Integration: Allows AI clients to perform semantic searches within your Obsidian notes, enhancing information retrieval.
- Custom Templater Prompts: Enables the creation of tailored prompts for AI interactions, facilitating personalized workflows.
- Secure MCP Implementation: Utilizes the open Model Context Protocol to standardize AI interactions with external data sources, ensuring security and user control.
MCP Tools enhances the functionality of your Obsidian vault by integrating AI capabilities through a secure and standardized protocol, offering advanced features like semantic search and customizable prompts.
AI Providers⌗
AI Providers is a configuration plugin for Obsidian that centralizes the management of AI service settings, such as API keys and configurations for providers like OpenAI and Ollama.
Key Features:
- Centralized AI Settings: Provides a unified interface to store and manage API keys and settings for various AI services, eliminating the need to input the same information across multiple plugins.
- Shared Configuration: Allows other Obsidian plugins to access these centralized settings, promoting consistency and reducing redundant configurations.
- Simplified Integration: Acts as a control panel for AI service settings, streamlining the process of connecting Obsidian to different AI providers.
AI Providers simplifies the management of AI service configurations within Obsidian, offering a centralized hub for settings that enhances efficiency and consistency across AI-related plugins.
Folder Overview⌗
Folder Overview is a plugin that enables users to generate dynamic overviews of their vaults or specific folders using a code block within their notes.
Key Features:
- Dynamic Folder Overviews: Allows the creation of code blocks that automatically list the contents of a folder, providing an up-to-date overview within notes.
- Integration with Folder Notes Plugin: Can be used alongside the Folder Notes plugin to enhance folder management capabilities.
Folder Overview offers a straightforward solution for users seeking to dynamically display folder contents within their notes, enhancing organizational efficiency and providing a clear structure to their Obsidian vaults.
Themes⌗
Serif⌗
Flexcyon⌗
Retro Windows⌗
GitHub
Vercel-Geist⌗
Aged Whisky⌗
