Obsidian Plugins Showcase - Mar 25th, 2025

Welcome back to another edition of Obsidian Plugins Showcase! Each week, we highlight some of the most exciting new plugins that can supercharge your note-taking workflow. Whether you’re looking to streamline your daily notes, enhance visualization, or automate tasks, this week’s lineup has something for everyone. Let’s dive in!

🔥 This Week’s Featured Plugins:

• AutoFit Tabs
• Organized Daily Notes
• Inline Checkbox Groups
• Runsh
• NerdFont Icon Picker
• Every Day Calendar
• Inkporter
• SQLSeal Charts
• Note ID
• Automatic Linker
• On This Day
• Flowchart

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AutoFit Tabs⌗

The AutoFit Tabs plugin dynamically adjusts tab header widths in real-time, ensuring each tab’s title is fully visible without truncation. This enhancement promotes a cleaner, more readable interface, allowing users to navigate their workspace with ease.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Dynamic Width Adjustment: Automatically resizes tab headers to fit their content, eliminating awkward text truncation and improving readability.
• Seamless Integration: Operates smoothly within Obsidian, maintaining a clean interface without disrupting the user’s workflow.​
• Enhanced User Experience: By displaying full tab titles, users can quickly identify and switch between documents, boosting productivity.​

💡 Why It Matters:

AutoFit Tabs streamlines navigation and enhances the overall note-taking experience by ensuring that tab titles are always fully visible.

GitHub Obsidian

Organized Daily Notes⌗

Organized Daily Notes brings structure and automation to your daily note workflow. It categorizes daily note entries based on predefined sections, transforming scattered daily logs into a neatly organized system, enhancing both readability and retrieval.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Predefined Section Organization – Automatically moves daily notes into structured folders, based on their creation date, ensuring a clean and logical layout.
• Customizable Folder Structure – Users can define the folder structure and date formats.
• Seamless Daily Workflow – Reduces friction in note-taking by keeping everything in its right place, making reviews and follow-ups effortless.
• Improved Search & Retrieval – Structured notes mean better discoverability, helping users quickly locate past entries without digging through cluttered logs.

💡 Why It Matters:

If you use daily notes but struggle with organization, this plugin brings much-needed structure, making each entry more meaningful and easy to navigate.

GitHub Obsidian

Inline Checkbox Groups⌗

Inline Checkbox Groups enhances tasks/checklists management by allowing users to create grouped checkboxes within a single line. This improves readability, optimizes space, and enables structured task tracking without cluttering notes.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Compact Task Organization – Keep multiple related checkboxes in a single line instead of stacking them vertically.
• Enhanced Readability – Makes to-do lists and progress tracking more streamlined and visually appealing.
• Auto Strikethrough: Optionally strike through text when all checkboxes in a group are completed.
• Ideal for Tracking Progress – Great for tracking multi-step processes, habit tracking, or grouped task lists.
• Boosts Efficiency – Reduces note clutter while maintaining full functionality of standard checklists.

💡 Why It Matters:

Perfect for users who love clean, organized to-do lists while keeping their vault structured!

GitHub Obsidian

Runsh⌗

​The Runsh plugin allows users to execute shell commands directly from within Obsidian notes.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Seamless Command Execution: Embed and run shell commands within your notes, facilitating tasks like opening projects or initiating scripts.​

💡 Why It Matters:

It’s particularly useful for developers seeking to launch development environments or run scripts without leaving their note-taking workspace. ​I use this plugin to seamlessly run commands against my servers, like ping, traceroute, and others.

GitHub Obsidian

You can use the following snippet to open specified folder or file in VSCode.

  code /path/to/project
  %%%
  Open Project

Or this to run ping against an ip address:

  ping 192.168.1.1
  %%%
  Ping

NerdFont Icon Picker⌗

NerdFont Icon Picker allows users to seamlessly insert icons, with an intuitive picker, into their notes, metadata, or even folder names—bringing visual clarity to their workflows.

🔑 Key Insights:

• NerdFont Icon Insertion – Easily browse and insert icons from the vast NerdFont collection into your notes.
• Metadata & Folder Icons – Elevate your vault’s structure by assigning icons to folders and frontmatter fields.
• Intuitive UI – The icon picker ensures a smooth selection process, making customization effortless.
• Boosted Visual Organization – Helps categorize and distinguish notes at a glance, reducing cognitive load.

💡 Why It Matters:

If you’re looking to make your Obsidian workspace more visually engaging and navigable, NerdFont Icon Picker is a game-changer! 🚀

GitHub Obsidian

Every Day Calendar⌗

Every Day Calendar is a visually intuitive habit-tracking plugin for Obsidian, designed to help users maintain consistency in their daily routines. Inspired by the philosophy of making progress every single day, it provides a dedicated calendar view for tasks, habits, or personal milestones.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Visual Habit Tracker – Stay accountable with an at-a-glance calendar that marks completed tasks.
• Motivational Progress View – See your streaks build up, encouraging long-term commitment.

💡 Why It Matters:

Perfect for anyone looking to develop strong habits, track daily accomplishments, or visualize consistency, Every Day Calendar transforms the abstract idea of habit formation into a tangible, motivating experience.

GitHub Obsidian

Inkporter⌗

Inkporter helps users to import handwritten notes and drawings into your digital vault. Whether you’re digitizing sketches, journal entries, or quick scribbles, Inkporter automates the process, ensuring that your analog notes integrate seamlessly with your markdown-based workflow.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Effortless Importing – Converts handwritten notes, sketches, and images into Obsidian-friendly files.
• Smart Organization – Automatically names and stores imported content based on predefined rules.
• Markdown Integration – Allows linking, tagging, and embedding directly within your vault.
• OCR Compatibility – (If supported) Extracts text from handwriting for better searchability.

💡 Why It Matters:

Ideal for those who love taking notes by hand but want the convenience of digital organization, Inkporter bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds, making your Obsidian vault the ultimate knowledge hub.

GitHub Obsidian

SQLSeal Charts⌗

SQLSeal Charts is an extension for SQLSeal plugin designed to bring SQL data visualization directly into your vault. This tool allows users to query data and generate dynamic charts within their notes, bridging the gap between structured data and knowledge management.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Dynamic Chart Generation – Visualize query results as interactive charts, making data-driven insights more intuitive.
• Customizable Queries – Fine-tune your SQL queries to extract exactly the information you need.
• Enhances Research & Analysis – Ideal for data analysts, researchers, and anyone working with structured datasets.

💡 Why It Matters:

With SQLSeal and SQLSeal Charts, Obsidian becomes more than just a note-taking app—it transforms into a powerful data dashboard, enabling users to merge documentation and analytics effortlessly. 📊🚀

GitHub Obsidian

Note ID⌗

Obsidian Note ID is a plugin that brings structured, unique identifiers to your notes, ensuring organization, traceability, and seamless cross-referencing within your vault. By automatically assigning distinct IDs to each note, it enhances linking, retrieval, and long-term maintainability of your notes, making it an essential tool for users dealing with extensive knowledge bases.

🔑 Key Insights:

• ID-Based Note Organization: Sorts and displays notes in alphanumeric order according to their assigned ID property.
• Cluster Identification: Reveals groups of related ideas, offering insight into how your notes interconnect while revealing gaps or areas of intense activity.
• Curated Table of Contents View: Provides a structured index of top-level notes or those explicitly marked with the toc property (e.g., toc: Zettelkasten for a Zettelkasten entry point). Unlike the main note list, this view highlights key topics without overwhelming the sidebar.
• Advanced Note Search: Enables fast and efficient navigation with fuzzy matching by note title, note ID, or table of contents title, streamlining the search process.
• Intelligent ID Assignment: Allows you to set a note’s ID in sequence or as a subsequence of another note, making it easier to structure, reorganize, and integrate notes into existing clusters.
• Ideal for Zettelkasten & PKM Users – Supports structured thinking by reinforcing stable connections between notes.

💡 Why It Matters:

For anyone managing large repositories of knowledge, Obsidian Note ID provides a rock-solid foundation for structured organization, making your vault more resilient and future-proof.

GitHub Obsidian

Automatic Linker⌗

Automatic Linker is a powerful automation plugin that dynamically transforms plain text mentions into wiki links (i.e. [[...]]), streamlining your note-taking workflow. It scanning your vault, and identifies references to existing notes, automatically converting them into Obsidian-style wiki links, reducing manual effort and ensuring seamless navigation between related ideas.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Automatic Link Conversion – Detects text matching note names and wraps them in [[ ]] for instant linking.
• Format on Save – Optionally auto-converts text to links when saving a file.
• Smart Namespace Handling – Configurable base directories and namespace restrictions prevent incorrect link resolutions.
• Shorthand Link Resolution – Automatically expands shorthand references to their correct namespaced equivalents.
• Respects Existing Links – Ensures already formatted links remain unchanged.
• GitHub & Jira URL Formatting – Converts URLs into cleaner, more readable formats.
• Alias Support – Recognizes note aliases and links accordingly.
• CJK Compatibility – Correctly handles Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text.
• Intelligent Ignoring – Prevents unwanted link conversion for short texts, date formats, and month notes.

💡 Why It Matters:

Whether you’re managing a Zettelkasten, personal wiki, or research database, Automatic Linker helps create a more cohesive and navigable knowledge base with minimal effort.

GitHub Obsidian

On This Day⌗

On This Day resurfaces past notes from the same date in previous years, helping users rediscover thoughts, track progress, and reflect on past ideas. Perfect for journaling, personal knowledge management, and habit tracking, it seamlessly integrates into your daily workflow.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Daily Note Time Capsule – Automatically displays notes from the same date in past years, fostering long-term reflection and insight.
• Seamless Integration – Works effortlessly with Obsidian’s daily notes, requiring minimal setup.
• Enhanced Knowledge Discovery – Encourages connections between past and present thoughts, helping refine ideas over time.
• Great for Journaling & PKM – Ideal for those who track habits, maintain a personal journal, or want to see how their thinking has evolved.

💡 Why It Matters:

Whether you’re journaling, tracking progress, or simply reminiscing, On This Day brings your past into the present—right inside your Obsidian vault!

GitHub Obsidian

Flowchart⌗

The Obsidian Flowchart plugin allows users to create flowcharts directly within their notes, facilitating better visualization of ideas, processes, and relationships.

🔑 Key Insights:

• Flowchart Creation: Users can easily create flowcharts using a simple syntax, making it accessible for those who may not have experience with graphic design tools.
• Customizable Styles: Users can customize the appearance of their flowcharts, including colors, shapes, and line styles, to match their personal or project-specific aesthetics.
• Real-time Rendering: Flowcharts are rendered in real-time, providing immediate visual feedback as users edit their flowchart syntax.

💡 Why It Matters:

The Obsidian Flowchart plugin is an invaluable addition for users looking to enhance their note-taking experience with visual elements. By providing an easy-to-use interface for creating flowcharts, it empowers users to better organize and present their thoughts and ideas.

GitHub Obsidian