Share your top 5 most used or favorite plugins!
Tough call honestly. I think those that I genuinely could not live without are:
- Dataview
- Tasks
- Quickview
- Advanced Tables
- Sync (If core plugins don’t count, Hover Editor)
My top 5 is:
- Linter: To automatize the formating of my notes
- Text Snippets: For creating text-based triggers to things like Callouts
- Commander: To customize wich buttons do what in my ribbons and button panels
- Recent files: So I can have a small history of navigation available when needed.
- Note Refactor: To easily separate a big chuncky note into smaller ones (divide, union, auto-add backlinks, etc.)
My top 5 plugins at the moment are:
- Dataview
- Templater
- Breadcrumbs
- Daily Notes
- Customizable Page Header and Tittle Bar
I only use four so:
- Dataview.
- DB folder (nice for ex-Notion users!)
- Tracker
- Omnivore!!
Omnivore is amazing. I moved away from Pocket and I have been super happy. It’s a read it later app and has full integration with Obsidian. Love the highlight option! You highlight what you like in Omnivore and it moves the parts into Obsidian. I have a folder for all in Obisidan and then use Dataview to create MoCs of these article per topic.
Wow I didn’t know that Omnivore already supports Obsidian! I’ll try it right now!
Yeah it’s super handy. You can also import whole articles.
- Periodic Notes
- Templater (works really well with Periodic Notes)
- QuickAdd
- Dataview
- I made my own plugin to convert all pngs in my vault into slightly compressed jpgs (as long as there’s no transparent pixels in the image)
(just tried omnisearch because of this post and it’s such a good plugin)
- Linter
- QuickAdd
- Commander (nice synergy between these 2)
- Templater
- Dataview
It appears new line doesn’t actually apply new line to my text… Just like on Reddit!
Ha! Yup, unlike Obsidian you need to put two new lines for a new line. I believe it’s standard markdown formatting, which Obsidian doesn’t strictly follow.
I think you can even turn it on somewhere in Obsidian’s settings… Not sure why anyone would use it, but it is there
- Gemmy (I am not kidding it brighten the mood)
- Underline
- Calendar
- Dataview
- Tasks
Yes, I am not pushing the app to the max, I’d say I’m more of an average person
- Kanban
- Book Search
- Paste URL into Selection
- Smart Random Note
- Graph Analysis
Ugh that was hard to get down to the top 5. Strang New Worlds is also a top plugin.
Nice to see people so involved with Obsidian here!
OK, these are my favourite five plugins per category. The links lead to a blog post I’ve written where I detail what each plugin does:
For work
For private use
- Dynamic Table Of Contents
- Does what it sounds like it does
- Quick Explorer
- Perform file explorer operations and see your current file path from the titlebar.
- Style Settings
- In Obsidian CSS editor for themes that support it
- Tag Wrangler
- Rename, merge, toggle, and search tags from the tag pane
Those are the only plugins I use, so I’m looking forward to the rest of this thread :D
- Dynamic Table Of Contents
I use probably 7 or 8 plugins in total but these are the ones I couldn’t live without:
- Templater
- Advanced Tables
- Natural Language Dates
- Text Snippets
- Todoist Plugin
Here’s mine!
- Obsidian-Git
- Calendar Plugin
- Dataview
- Omnisearch
- Download from Pocket
I don’t have a complex enough workflow to need a lot of plugins, but I really really like Dataview. Templater and Buttons will probably be really high on my list too if I get around to actually using them.
Yeah, Templater is at the top of my list to implement for my work notes. Looks super useful! Can’t wait to implement it
Hi, can I ask what you are using the buttons plugin for?
Well, right now I don’t use it.
But if I did I would use it to create new pages with special templates, then I can format a home page with all the buttons, and dataview queries to sort and organize the new pages.
Something like a journal where a button might be “Daily entry” and another for “New Project Page” or “New Task” or something.
It also might work really well for taking notes in DnD. (Quick “new character/place/item page” buttons right in the session notes page.) I’ll have to experiment with templates again this summer.
Interesting, I like “add this template to this file now”.
- Obsidian Git
- Templater
- Editor Syntax Highlight
- Natural Language Dates
- And a must-have Chrome extension to clip entire web pages as markdown notes in Obsidian, MarkDownload.
