Table of contents
What is Obsidian?
Resources
- Obsidian Help: a open-source Obsidian's official help vault.
- Obsidian Roundup: a weekly roundup of Obsidian.md tips, news & resources via Eleanor Konik.
- Official Getting Started Guide (may be a little outdated)
- 🎬 Obsidian Office Hours
- 🎬 Obsidian Community Talks
- 🎬 Linking Your Thinking (Nick Milo)
- 🎬 Bryan Jenks
- 🎬 Productivity Guru
- 🎬 Santi Younger
- 🎬 Effective Remote Work
- 🇨🇳 AllinBon: a Chinese alternative to Obsidian Roundup
Plugins
Name | Description | Credits |
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Obsidian Day Planner | Plugin for day planning and managing pomodoro timers from a task list | lynchjames |
Flashcards | Simple and intuitive integration for Anki | reuseman |
Shell commands | You can predefine system commands that you want to run frequently, and assign hotkeys for them. For example open external applications. Automatic execution is also supported. | Jarkko Linnanvirta |
External Tools
Converters
Name | Description | Credits |
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Notion to Obsidian converter | Simple script to convert exported Notion notes to Obsidian. | Conner Tennery |
Yarle - Yet Another Rope Ladder from Evernote | Node.js app to convert exported Evernote notes to Markdown (Obsidian) | Akos Balasko |
keep-it-markdown | Convert Google Keep notes dynamically to markdown for Obsidian and Notion using the unofficial Keep API. | Don Sudduth |
gooseberry | A command line utility to generate a knowledge base from Hypothesis annotations. | out-of-cheese-error |
BibleGateway to Obsidian | Fetch the text from Bible Gateway and save it as formatted markdown file. Each chapter is saved as one file and navigation between files as well as a book-file is automatically created. All of the chapter files of a book are saved in its numbered folder. | selfire1 |
DayOne JSON to MD | Simple app that converts jsons (packed with media files into zip) exports from Day One to Markdown. | Kirill Kleymenov |
Annotation tools | connecting hypothesis and obsidian.md | Nicolas Collignon |
A thousand notes | Scripts for cleaning, validating and maintaining the markdown notes exported from Evernote. | Davide Della Casa |
PKMigrator | Tools to migrate between various Personal Knowledge Management Utilities, including Remnote, Obsidian, Roam and Org-roam. | Anwesh Gangula |
Goodsidian | Goodsidian takes updates to your shelves on Goodreads and formats them to a note in Obsidian. | selfire1 |
Browser extensions
Name | Description | Credits |
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Markdownload | A Firefox and Google Chrome extension to clip websites and download them into a readable markdown file. | deathau |
Copy Selection as Markdown | Firefox add-on to copy a selection or link as formatted Markdown | 0x6b |
Obsidian Clipper | An unofficial Obsidian clipper for Chrome, that allows you to easily clip a selection to a note in Obsidian | Joost Plattel |
Obsidian Bookmark | A Chrome extension and nodejs server to allow web clipping to Obsidian. | Liamballin |
Publishing
Name | Description | Credits |
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mdzk | Zettelkasten system and command line static publishing tool. Aims at full support for Obsidian Markdown. | mdzk-rs |
publish | An open-source Obsidian Publish alternative | obsidian-userland |
quartz | Host your own second brain and digital garden | jackyzha0 |
obyde | A minimal tool to convert a "standardly" configured Obsidian vault to a Jekyll or Hugo blog. | Khaled M. Nassar |
writeup-converter | Script for grabbing markdown files and Obsidian attachments from one folder and copying them to another. Also contains a 'website formatter' that uses regex to parse markdown headers and links and reformat them to create Jekyll-friendly links and contents tables. | Mac Goodwin |
pelican-obsidian | Makes it possible to bridge work in obsidian to pelican seamlessly. | Jonathan Sundqvist |
yet-another-free-publish-alternative | A Jekyll digital garden template, optimized for integration with Obsidian. It aims to enhance discoverability and help you build a personal knowledge base that can scale with time. | Mara Li |
Perlite | A webbased markdown viewer optimized for Obsidian | secure-77 |
Other
Name | Description | Credits |
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Obsidian For Business | A combination of a template vault with initial structure and some Microsoft Office VBA Macros to facilitate a powerful, extensible, and flexible plain text workflow using Microsoft Office and Obsidian For Business. | Bryan Jenks |
Sourcegraph knowledge bases extension | Browse Markdown knowledge bases (e.g. Obsidian vaults or Foam repositories) in Sourcegraph. | Robert Lin |
Obweb | Web applcation to view and edit files in an Obsidian vault. Optimized for mobile devices. | Yukang Chen |
Templates
Vault templates
Name | Description | Credits |
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Linking Your Thinking Kit | This starter kit is designed to get you immediately hands-on with ways to manage your digital notes. Experiment. Learn by doing. See what methods work for you. | Nick Milo |
PARA Starter Kit | It’s a full vault to explore around and some of the methodology for P.A.R.A. and how to get started for yourself. | cotemaxime |
Obsidian Starter Templates | Obsidian Starter Templates gathers examples from the Obsidian community. Its broader aims are to uncover and communicate how others use backlinks and various markdown tricks and why these techniques work. | masonlr |
Obsidian JG Method | A starter kit that follows how to use Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software development knowledge base. | joshwingreene |
SlRvb’s Journaling Setup | This is a deep dive into how SlRvb go about journaling the things that happen in his life. | SlRvb |
SlRvb’s MediaDB Setup | Setup for a database vault that stores entertainment media. | SlRvb |
Note templates
Name | Description | Credits |
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Obsidian Templates | Few templates, such as admonitions, chess plays, clipboard and others | Chetachi Ezikeuzor |
Template Showcase for Templater | Templates for Templater made by its community. | Templater Community |
CSS Snippets
Small tweaks to add to your vault/.obsidian/snippets
folder.
- Collapsing Sidebar
- Bullet Point Relationship Lines
- Auto-fading UI
- Smaller Scrollbar
- Subtler Folding Gutter Arrows
- Hyphenation and Justification
- Enlarge Image on Hover
- Nicer Checkboxes
- Stylish Block Quotes
- Bigger Link Popup Preview
- Custom Icons Differing Files and Folders
- Custom Icons for Specific Folders
- Tag Pills
- Custom Icons for Frontmatter Tags
- Outliner For The Outline and File Explorer
- Better Bullet Points in Edit Mode
- Image Cards
- Media Grid
- Custom-folder-files-tree
Not enough? There are many other places related to snippets:
Collapsing Sidebar
by @Kmaasrud
Bullet Point Relationship Lines
by @deathau
Relationship lines that shows hierarchy, like in code editors.
📁 bullet-point-relationship-lines.css
Auto-fading UI
Fades note's header controls and status bar items when not hovered.