My Most-Used Obsidian Plugins
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- Obsidian 3
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- Helios —
Dragonfly Across An Ancient Sky
- Current drink:
- Decaffeinated Earl Grey tea
I’ve used Obsidian for quite a while. While my vault’s contents are a chaotic mess, it really helps me to be the place where I can put my notes and then find them when the need arises.
I use a bunch of community plugins to improve a few workflows. And some of them I use more than others! That is a post about them!
The plugins will be in the alphabetical order. In the future, if I encounter another plugin that I will start using all the time, I’ll try to remember to update this list.
Advanced URI
A nice plugin, which I do not use by itself, but use it with my daily notes workflow — see the Calendar and QuickAdd plugins.
Maybe I need to find some other uses for this plugin, as it can unlock some other useful actions as well.
Calendar
I use the core “Daily Notes” plugin, well, almost daily. Whenever I have some idea, I quickly add it to my daily notes, where it goes with the exact time stamp of the idea in an unordered list. Then, I can go there and add any extra content or brainstorm a bit.
This plugin is very helpful both for accessing these daily notes, and for just having a calendar at hand. Usually, I can remember the approximate month/week when I wrote something down, and with this calendar, I can go and quickly look for it.
Hide Sidebars on Window Resize
This is a very tiny plugin that does just one thing. What thing? The one in its name. I use the Rectangle app by Ryan Hanson to quickly resize windows or move them to a different screen. With the wider windows, I have both sidebars open at the same time. But when it becomes narrower, it is very convenient to remove those sidebars automatically.
One thing it doesn’t do and that could be improved: it does not consider vertically split tabs. It would’ve been great if it did consider not just the window’s width, but the number of vertically split tabs, and adjusted when to hide sidebars based on this, hiding them earlier.
Other than that, once installed, this plugin is mostly “invisible” and just works.
Paste URL into selection
Another very simple plugin which also just does the thing in its title pretty well. You select some text, you have a link in your clipboard, you press paste — here you go. Nice.
QuickAdd
Another useful addition to my daily notes workflow: allows adding new paragraphs to the today’s note.
I use it in combination with the Advanced URI plugin and Alfred App, which allows me to open it, write q + enter, and start writing.
Recent Files for Obsidian
This is another very useful plugin that helps with my daily notes workflow. More specifically, it allows maintaining a list of recently open files that excludes the daily notes, as I already have quick access to them via Calendar plugin.
“Recent Files” allows me to have fewer open tabs and fewer pinned tabs, as opened files kinda “pin” themselves into this plugin’s list, and it becomes very simple to find something you return to a lot.
That’s it! Do you use Obsidian? What plugins do you use all the time? Please let me know! While my practice is usually “look for a plugin once I want to automate something”, sometimes you might not know that you need something.
Maybe even you found something in the above list that you were “oh, I did not know I need this!”