Every single Obsidian plugin I use (Obsidian tour 2023)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video, I talk about all the Obsidian plugins I currently use... all 46 of them. I demonstrate some of them, talk about why I didn't keep others, and talk through my use cases for each one. These plugins aren't necessarily the best ones out there for Obsidian - they're just the ones that are useful enough for my use cases to have them installed on a daily basis.
// TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:46 Admonition
01:14 Advanced Slides
01:57 Advanced Tables
03:46 Banners
04:05 Better Word Count
04:48 Buttons
06:11 ChatGPT MD
07:12 Checklist
07:33 Copy button for code blocks
08:13 Editor Syntax Highlight
09:14 Dataview
09:22 Dice Roller
09:52 Etherpad
10:41 Excalidraw and ExcaliBrain
11:35 Fantasy Calendar
12:08 Fantasy Statblocks
12:22 Hider
13:03 Initiative Tracker
13:08 Kanban
13:43 List Callouts
14:46 Meld Encrypt
15:06 Minimal Theme Settings
15:19 Note Refactor
15:42 Novel Word Count
16:04 Obsidian D&D Beyond
17:52 Obsidian Leaflet
18:36 Obsidian42 - BRAT
19:03 Obsidian42 - Strange New Worlds
20:05 Omnisearch
20:21 Omnivore
20:52 Outliner
21:52 Periodic Notes
22:15 PostgreSQL Obsidian
22:56 Projects
23:16 Query Control
23:40 QuickAdd
24:08 Reading Time
24:52 Readwise Official
25:33 Settings Search
25:54 Show Current File Path
26:24 Spaced Repetition
27:18 Style Settings
27:50 Supercharged Links
29:39 Templater
30:14 Text Generator
31:03 Vault Changelog
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// ABOUT ME
Site: nicolevanderhoeven.com
Mastodon: pkm.social/@nicole
My travel TH-cam channel: / luckydippers
k6 TH-cam channel: / k6test
// APPS I USE
- Obsidian: obsidian.md
- Readwise: readwise.io/nicole
- Shortform: shortform.com/nicole
- Reclaim: go.reclaim.ai/eg0tgbamp7cb
- Snipd: link.snipd.com/Cx7S/nicole
- Napkin: napkin.one/?via=nicole
// GEAR
nicolevanderhoeven.com/gear/
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There were a lot of plugins I mentioned in this video, and rather than keeping you on the hook for the whole video, I added timestamps for every single one, so feel free to skip around! If you'd like to learn more about each one, here's a list of my notes on the plugins, along with some videos I've made on them: notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/Obsidian+plugins+I+use
The theme I used is AnuPpuccin: th-cam.com/video/7-SOwxpZQNI/w-d-xo.html
Can you make a tutorial on how to use obsidian on android?
Is there any plugin to autocorrect the syntax error in a markdown file, sometimes i get error and then i am not able to view it in a live preview mode? I am using Linter but sometime it also not able to find the error properly.
Just wanna take a moment and thank you for your tutorials on your channel. I've been interested in this app for a few weeks and haven't really begun to scratch the surface.
All of this is a big help, thank you. 🙏😊
Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, greatly appreciated!
I always worry about overloading Obsidian, but ths confirms to me that everything will be alright!
11:41 Using something called "fantasy calendar" for my own content creation schedule would actually be very appropriate for me 😩
Amazing video as always, Nicole!
Copy button for code blocks is a default feature now. I just started using obsidian and have always had that feature without a plug-in.
Same with syntax highlighting, I think these two plugins are redundant.
❤ thank you for the shout for BRAT and SNW! Also you are right, I did a lot of performance enhancements to SNW. It is worth trying to see if it runners better for you. Though no promises 😅
Thank you, this was super useful!
Thank you, saved us hours.
I just started using Obsidian last week, it's not got a lot in it but I can see myself sticking with it and getting a lot of use out of it
Thank you!
I love the content of your videos and your bubbly personality.
Awww, thank you! I appreciate that. :)
Hello, first of all thank you for all your videos on Obsidian and its various features and plugins. Your content really helps me in working with Obsidian!
I have seen that (around 5:20) you are using some kind of 2 dimensional grid layout of cards with filename, image and some summary. I am really interested in having a view like this too, can you maybe explain how you achieved this layout? I assume that you've used Dataview and maybe CSS in some way, but other than that I really have no idea and would greatly appreciate some explanation. Thank you very much!
thanks this is great
Let me ask you a question, why you don’t use Obsidian for task management any more?
Yes - important to understand - as so integrated to daily and periodic notes, etc.
And the follow up question, what are you using now?
Why I don't use Obsidian for task management
That video is private
Cant see.
I really like the idea of adding plugins to projects. Are there any good plugins that integrate into projects?
Hi Nicole !
Thank you so much for sharing ! I (re)discovered some of the plugins that you use with great pleasure !
One thing that got me wondering though, is that I can't seem to find the plugin / method that you are using to manage the properties of your notes. In the note that you are showing for some of the demonstrations, there seems to be a more user friendly way to add and manage the note's properties than the old-fashioned YAML typing way. Have I missed something ?
Thanks again !
Cheers, J
Better YAML frontmatter in Obsidian
Love your videos. I do wonder though about you saying Projects not having a drag and drop Kanban board. I use Projects and in board view I have the ability to drag and drop cards from one column to another.
Thanks Nicole. I just discovered a recently independently created IcalObsidianSync plugin to sync Apple calendar with Obsidian calendar that also does natural language processing locally. (Google calendar sync is apparently coming also). I don't know the developer, I' not promoting anything here but it looks simple yet very promising.
Great video! How do you get the "Add property" button at 13:56?
Hii. Great video. One question, you say you no longer use obsidian for task management. Could you tell use what do you use now?
Thanks :) saludos desde México
I'm so glad to see that my etherpad integration plugin made your list! I'm not a patreon subscriber, but is there any way I can check out your video on it?
@nicolevdh i have a question, you have a propriety in your notes, a date one, where you put some of your date changelog note, who do you do it?
Hi Nicole, as a daily Obsidian user to capture thoughts, I want to be presented with a New Note option when I press and hold the app icon in my phone as the phone option represents 50% of my use. What would you suggest as the best way to convey this use case to be considered for future versions? Many thanks in advance Nicole.
Thank you very much! In my opinion, you spent just enough time explaining each plugin and referring to your other videos when relevant! How do you feel on making a video like this on a schedule (once or twice a year)? I think it would be useful for new people like me to get a brief overview of part of the current plugin landscape, as well as being interesting for yourself and long-time viewers to see how your personal plugin selection changes over time.
Absolutely! I had come to the same conclusion. Thank you for the validation! I appreciate you. ❤
@@nicolevdh Is there any plugin to autocorrect the syntax error in a markdown file, sometimes i get error and then i am not able to view it in a live preview mode? I am using Linter but sometime it also not able to find the error properly.
Hi, thanks for your sharing. I wish to know how to make this yaml style? Use css or plugin? How to do it?
What plugin do you use to render markdown in the backlinks?
Hey, I think the Outliner features are a default now. I have hotkeys for the 'move line up' and 'move line down', there are vertical lines that track which level you're at, and I can toggle the lists independently. I don't have the Outliner plugin. ;)
Yes I have indent buttons on mobile, these I use. I think I saw the up and down line buttons as well, I don't use them.
One problem I have is in the outline overview: the levels can't collapse, in order to drill down. This would be very handy. Similar as in the explorer pane.😊
@@egroegknimmij3169 For the outline overview, I use Quiet Outline, which you can collapse, click-and-drop to reorganize, set up how many levels you want to see as default (H1, H2, H3, etc), it automatically shows you were you are as you move in the note, and it has colors to differentiate the levels. Very nifty. :)
I like Vault Changelog. Love and light.
Which plugin gives you the line numbers on the editing mode? That is a feature im missing from code editors lol
Do you use the ttrpg plugin? It was great for a couple of weeks the first time but then it broke requiring me to rebuild the campaign. A couple of weeks later that one broke again to. So I’ve had no luck
With supercharged links, how did you get it to put the icon in there? All I can get it to do is recolor the link based on the tag.
what are you using for task management instead now?
"Supercharged Links" as an Add-in - is moving to a more front matter format plug-in as 'metadatamenu' worth waiting a bit maybe...
Thanks for the 'snapshot'. I too go through and delete ones I know I no longer use or need. As for installing new ones, that happens if I find I have a particular need. For Omnisearch, I highly recommend it to anyone coming from an Evernote type background. The ability to find words in photos or PDF documents is it's super power and I find I'm more willing to add PDF and photos to my vault because of having this plugin. Do you have a video on Workspaces? I'm intrigued by the concept but not sure what I'd use it for at present because my main use of Obsidian has been strictly for writing.
I kind of think the recently upgraded bookmark feature replaces the need for workspaces. You can now bookmark anything and place it under bookmark folders(workspaces). I would be happy if anyone could enlighten me to the advantages of using workspaces.
Why use workspaces in Obsidian?
@@nicolevdh I just watched this video again (the main one) and discovered your Short video tonight. I'm 5 months late, but thanks for clarifying use cases for Workspaces!
I also found new plugins this time around to try!
whate are you using for task management?
Is there any plugin to autocorrect the syntax error in a markdown file, sometimes i get error and then i am not able to view it in a live preview mode? I am using Linter but sometime it also not able to find the error properly.
I genuinely can't believe that table formatting doesn't come out of the box. It's my ONLY gripe with obsidian
And all community plug-in - no CORE plugins... Bookmarks, Canvas, etc.
Great list and good to see the reduction as you went.
Workspaces... core but sufficiently high management and effects much of what how and when - I feel was missing... just a little.
Tags - which 'we' all know you don't use, but... ... still haven't 'converted' all my stages into links or front matter - yet... work in progress.
Zotero add-ins... still there but niche-ish I suppose. And still playing with 'Strange New Worlds' to see where that will take me... expanding the 'links' function. both in terms of seeing clusters and gaps - but also basic navigation between notes, etc.
So thanks again for these vids. excellent content.
Stay tuned! I made a separate video on core plugins. :)
Thanks for the overview! Definitely some plugins I wanna check out (List Callouts, Supercharged Links, Spaced Repetition).
Being able to get a character count when you highlight something should be a core feature IMO. I use mobile a lot and there's nothing like this that works on mobile. (If I pull the sidebar out, text un-highlights.) I have to keep a separate app and then copy/paste text a lot.
The scary music when you said "paranoid" got me paranoid! :(
Have you thought of implementing local semantic search for your PKM? Could you please give it a try?
Hmmm, do you mean, like Omnisearch? I would love to hear your use case and what you'd use it for. I wasn't entirely sure what the appeal was over the basic search functionality.
How do I know if I should use Admonishion?
Now all the features you mentioned about Outliner are native to Obsidian! (at least I don´t have it installed and I can do everything you mentioned)
even swap lines ?
@@Trecoolerok 'Move line up/down' in the hotkeys
@@appuchia thanks!
Very good point about AI plug-ins (I don’t use AI at all)… One of the main ‘selling points’ about Obsidian is that it is YOUR data stored on YOUR machine - AI would seem to defeat this principle.
I notice you’re not using Calendar by Liam Cain - is this a change of tack or am I mistaken in thinking you once used it…?
One option would be to run a local LLM, though they aren't as good as OpenAI's stuff, and they require quite a beefy GPU with a lot of VRAM. E.g. a 13 billion parameter model requires 16GB when it's 8 bit quantized. For comparison GPT-3 is around 175 billion parameters, and according to leaked documents, GPT-4 is around 10 times larger.
At least with locally installed LLMs no data ever leaves your computer.
The copy button plugin doesn't seem to exist anymore?
I know you probably don't use a plugin for this and the answer is probably CSS but I'd love to know how you make columns on an obsidian page. I've been looking for an easier way to do that when I need it.
There are two plugins I'm aware of - Obsidian Columns and Multi-Column Markdown. But I remember that one of them wasn't displaying excalidraw files properly, and the other one wasn't working well with the Google calendar plugin... so yeah, I ended up mostly using the "Modular CSS Layout" snippets which don't have the issues, and I assume should not break if not maintained, unlike plugins.
Instead of 'Vault Changelog' I use 'Recent Files", quick and clean.
Hey, Nicole! Great stuff :)
When are you releasing your first video in Portuguese?
Ha! Não sei, mas vai demorar muito... quando começo a falar em português, acabo falando em espanhol...
@@nicolevdh Sim, imagino. Não nativos geralmente fazem isso pelas similaridade das linguas :)
what colorscheme she using?
You don't use DB Folder, Nicole. I wonder why? Thanks for this video.
And also I noticed you don't use Zotero Integration plugin. Perhaps, this must be of less use for your needs. I would love to consume contents and learn academic way of note-taking with citation management applications.
I feel like an amoeba being so flat in Obsidian... but in a nice way! KKKKK
Thanks for the video.
👏
how to use Vault Changelog?
4:22 But then you have no chance for Jester-style absolutely unhinged Sendings 😂
Is it possible to separate out TTRPG related content from general content? Maybe you can segment your videos to start with general content and talk about TTRPG ones at the end? I'm guessing a large amount of your subscribers don't deal with TTRPG and are here for Obsidian content (I might be wrong here)? Genuine feedback, not trying to trivialize the effort you are putting into your videos.
*PromoSM*
Fantastic video! Really love your channel! I'm trying to start a channel doing Android tutorials (@danieltalkscode). Do you by chance have any advice on how to write a script in a somewhat quick/efficient way? I find it takes me a long time and I haven't found too many good tutorials for making software tutorial videos 😅