Essential Plugins#
Plugins are the defining feature of Obsidian, and there’re lots of them. The following plugins—“base 1 plugins” as I like to call them—have stood the test of time. Sorted in order of highest utility:
- Templater
- Tabout
- Smart Typography
- Outliner
- Typewriter Mode
- Quick Switcher++
- Typing Transformer
- QuickAdd
- Dataview
- Homepage
- Periodic Notes
- Natural Language Dates
Base 2 Plugins#
I find myself using these more.
- Chorded Hotkeys
- Omnivore
- Fast Image Cleaner
- Attachment Name Formatting
- Jump to Date
- Media extended
- PodNotes
- Plugin Manager
Quality of Life#
Each adds a unique flavor to the system.
- Emoji Autocomplete
- No dupe leaves
- Markdown Sync Scroll
- Editor Syntax Highlight
- Floating Search
- Settings Search
- Electron Window Tweaker
- Open Gate
- Rendered Block Link Suggestions
- Slash Commander
- Consecutive Lists
- Set View Mode per Note
- Commander
Special Use Cases#
A true showcase of Obsidian’s extensibility
- Math: Latex Suite
- Academia: Citations, Pandoc, Pandoc Reference List, Footnote Shortcut, Writing Goals
- Project management: Kanban, Semantic Canvas
- Quick sharing: Share Note
- Presentation: Slides Extended
- Other: CSS editor, BRAT
Maintenance#
To manage those messy situations.
- Linter
- Find Orphaned Files and Broken Links
- Image converter
- Global Search and Replace
- Clear Unused Images