This is a series of blog posts showcasing how I have my personal knowledge management (PKM) system set up, the changes I’ve made, and best practices I’ve implemented.
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