sstorie / obsidian-stuff

A collection of items related to my use of Obsidian

obsidian-stuff

This is a collection of resources I use to take more usable notes with Obsidian.

Plugins

Here's a listing of the plugins I currently use (in alphabetical order). This is a fairly long list, but it grew over time and I don't find myself adding/removing too much these days.

Plugin	How I use it	URL
Advanced Tables	This provides some UI enhancements when working with tables. I don't use it often, but it's handy.	https://github.com/tgrosinger/advanced-tables-obsidian
Calendar	Provides a UI panel to quickly open weekly and daily notes. You can easily create new daily/weekly notes from your templates too. Great for creating the daily notes you need ahead of time.	https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin
Dataview	Query your notes. It's the foundation for my daily use cases today.	https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
Image Toolkit	This adds useful features around images in your notes. The best feature I like is being able to click the image within the note and see if full screen.	https://github.com/sissilab/obsidian-image-toolkit
Linter	Just like code linting, this helps ensure certain formatting rules are applied to your notes automatically. I use it for that and to make sure certain YAML metadata is always added.	https://github.com/platers/obsidian-linter
Meta Bind	I use this to create buttons that drive actions, but I think it can do more than that. This is how I quickly create meeting notes from my daily notes.	https://github.com/mProjectsCode/obsidian-meta-bind-plugin
Mononote	This makes sure a note is only open in one tab at a time. Simple tweak that helps reduce confusion as you're moving from note to note from the daily one.	https://github.com/czottmann/obsidian-mononote
Omnisearch	Powerful search tool that includes your notes (of course), but also OCR within images and any PDFs you've added when combined with the Text Extractor plugin.	https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch
Periodic Notes	This adds the concept of weekly and monthly notes to the base functionality of Obsidian. I use it for weekly notes today.	https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-periodic-notes
QuickAdd	Add commands that can quickly create notes based on highlighted text. I use this to add new people to my vault.	https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd
Smart Typography	This is a simple one that converts certain strings to others, including some basic ligatures.	https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-smart-typography
Style Settings	To be honest, this might be there just to support a theme I tried (or am using). I haven't done any serious tweaking of the styles within Obsidian.	https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-style-settings
Templater	This is what powers the templates I use today. It builds upon the basic template functionality with more useful features.	https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater
Text Extractor	This is a companion plugin that makes Omnisearch more powerful.	https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-text-extractor
Various Complements	This adds an auto-complete feature when writing like and IDE does when writing code.	https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/obsidian-various-complements-plugin

Scripts to help automate common things for me

Zoom AI summaries

My workplace has embraced AI tools and one I use by default is Zoom's AI companion to summarize the discussions during a meeting and email them to me. By default these come in a nice looking HTML-based format, but I can't just copy-paste this content into a Markdown note. To help I used AI to generate a quick python script to rip through the content and use regex's to convert things to Markdown. That script is included in this repository in case you're interested.

I use a Mac for my daily tasks so I map the execution of this script to a Shortcut that's easy to run on demand.

Blogs and Resources I found helpful

These are in no particular order:

• Dann Berg's site - https://dannb.org/start-here/
  • I stole his daily notes early on but he has a video showing his obsidian vault too.
• Lou Plummer's blog - https://amerpie2.micro.blog/
  • He has lots of great tips on not just using Obsidian but integrating it with other tools to make powerful workflows.
• MacSparky's Obsidian Field Guide - https://learn.macsparky.com/p/obsidianfg
  • This costs money, but it was helpful to see a more professional take on how to use Obsidian and his guests show you different use cases people have.
• FromSergio's YouTube Playlist on Obsidian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctetnQfSdfM&list=PL7oLu8NfQd84_gsyqBVSVgUmCCgcvSZMx
  • He has several videos on Obsidian and several popular plugins