I am fairly new to obsidian, so forgive me for the dumb question.
Everytime I click on a formatted text in my note, it shows the code version of it, like this.
Is there a way to disable this code from showing up when I place my cursor on it? I want it to just be as is when my cursor is on the line of text. Hope it's understandable, thanks
A tour through my «Second Brain», with some of the features and recent updates. If you are curious about how it has changed over the years (feature-wise), check the Visual Changelog or check out the code on GitHub. It is an initial fork of Quartz (v3 with GoHugo). If you have questions, happy to answer.
I was just browsing the themes page and wow, we have reached 700 themes!
What's your favorite and why?
I'm always on the hunt for something cool to tweak my setup.
TL;DR: Obsidian uses PDF.js, which has supported native annotations since 2022. Why hasn't this made it into Obsidian yet? I'm holding out for a native solution because third-party academic workflows keep breaking on me.
The Obsidian roadmap shows that the native PDF annotation feature has been waiting in the wings for quite some time now.
As far as I understand, Obsidian uses Mozilla’s PDF.js as its native viewer. It makes total sense for the Obsidian team to rely on this open-source component and wait for upstream features rather than building their own from scratch.
But hasn't this been supported by PDF.js for a long time by now? When I open a PDF in Firefox, I can annotate and draw on it easy peasy. I took a look at their GitHub releases, and it seems the feature was introduced back in v3.0.279 (2022). The current PDF.js release is v6.2.108, and the changelogs mention multiple improvements to the annotation feature since then. Am I missing something regarding how this integrates with Electron/Obsidian?
Why I'm asking: the usual plugin fatigue.
To be transparent, I do academic writing in Obsidian, and the state of citation/PDF workflows has left me frustrated. Whenever I look for a workflow (like Zotero-to-Obsidian or plugins like PDF++), the tools are either abandoned, running on fumes, or maintained by a single developer who will likely (and understandably) move on in a few years.
I caved yesterday and challenged myself to try ZotLit, despite my hesitation to rely on community plugins for a long-term academic vault. It looks like an awesome project, but it turns out I recently updated to Zotero 10, and ZotLit isn't compatible with it yet. In the dev's defense, they are already on it, have a fix in the beta pipeline, and communicate super well on Discord.
Bad luck or not: the second I try to adopt a heavy community-plugin workflow, I'm blocked by incompatibilities between the moving parts.
So I am still holding out for native PDF annotation to keep my vault headache-free for the next decade.
Does anyone have insight into what's holding up the PDF.js integration?
So i just downloaded and immediately ran into a problem where the folders sort alphabetically and the sorting button above doesnt seem to do anything i put in the custom sort plugin that someone suggested but i dont think it works on android any help is appreciated
Pretty much the title. The left screenshot is from a canvas node I made a few months ago. The right screenshot is copying the same content either into the same canvas or a different canvas today.
I disabled all CSS snippets to see if those were causing the problem, no dice. No new plugins were added. I have no idea what changed.
On a similar note, is there a way to retain the indentation guides (those vertical lines) in reading view/Canvas? I saw there's a post asking this years ago but there was no clear answer.
TIA!
Hi, i'm new on Obsidian and I'm looking for suggests on plugins, etc. that I can use on Obsidian for improve my research.
I'm historical academic research and i'm writing a book about library science contemporary history. I'm using Zotero for collect, organize, read and highlighted books and papers and, previous, for annotate.
I (will) want use Obsidian for taking notes of analysis about papers and books that I've read on Zotero. In Obsidian, I (will) write my book and my articles with indentation, Table of Contents, etc.
I've read that plugin Longform is good for organize chapter, sections, etc., for create TOC and for compile final document. It is really good for historical academic researcher?
I use plugins as Pandoc, Zotero integration and Nextcloud Sync. There are any other good/important plugins?
Im currently looking to save all art that interests me, but it’s becoming quite an unmanageable amount. I have heard great things about obsidian, but will it be helpful in my case?
I want to use obsidian for my chemistry degree to make notes. I usually have an excel sheet where I put in the topic and it will auto add dates to review. For example 3, 7, 30 days after the note was made. The excel sheet then highlights if a topic is to be reviewed that day, or if it is overdue.
I want to incorporate this into obsidian. How can I do this?
- notes that are made have a date
- after 3 days the note will come up for review
- once it has been reviewed it will then come up again 7 days later etc
- there is a “daily to do list” that shows me each day which notes need reviewing
The main goal is so I can keep on top of reviewing / amending notes so that exam season isn’t as stressful
I don’t want flash cards, this is more of a whole topic overview
Any help would be appreciated!
Feature Request → ✅
I have a huge discrepancy between my local vault and Obsidian Sync: my local vault is ~500 MB, while Sync is using ~6 GB.
As I understand it, Sync has 12 months history. The problem is that users have no way to manually remove this old data or control what is retained.
Could Obsidian add a way to permanently delete old/deleted/useless files from Sync, or give users some control over Sync storage cleanup?
6 GB of Sync storage for a 500 MB vault seems excessive, and there should be a way for users to manage it.
I have a few side projects which bring me immense meaning and fulfillment.
The problem is that there are 5 or 6 side-projects, and one of them has taken off and is in prod, so
needs active maintenance... the rest.. I am just sitting on and not getting to releasing beyond beta.
One is an actual product based startup which needs soldering and field testing.
I do have the time to devote to them. Time is not the problem. I just need something which lays my options before me everyday...
How can Obsidian help me with that?
Hi, I’ve just published Just Simple Excalidraw, a local-first editor for native .excalidraw files.
The existing Obsidian Excalidraw plugin by zsviczian is excellent and incredibly capable. This is not an attempt to compete with it feature-for-feature. It is deliberately a different lane.
What I love about the original Excalidraw is its simplicity: open a canvas, think with your hands, and get out of the way. Just Simple Excalidraw tries to bring exactly that focused, offline experience into an Obsidian vault.
It uses standard Excalidraw drawing tools and saves portable .excalidraw JSON directly in the vault. It intentionally leaves out integrations, OCR, AI, collaboration, cloud services, libraries, and other advanced workflows.
If you need those capabilities, zsviczian’s plugin is a fantastic choice. If you want the original Excalidraw feeling with as little extra machinery as possible, this may be useful.
If Excalidraw is important to your work, please also consider supporting the upstream team through Excalidraw+.
https://github.com/Qoojoe/zotero-obsidian-annotation-export-template
I saw a bunch of templates online, but either they didn't quite work for me format-wise or they never uploaded the template file. So I wanted to create a reliable template focused on callouts that handles all situations and marginally useful data from Zotero I could think of. I think callouts are the perfect solution, because they are always embedded entirely, making it easy to "cite" sources via footnotes.
If you have questions or ideas for additional things to feature in a template, let me know!
My main machine is a Mac. So this theme was initially built for my personal use and then published in the community. Then someone reported a bug on Windows 11. Upon checking it there, many elements—such as custom split resize handles and card backgrounds—are incorrect, displaced, or not aligned with macOS standards. Today, I have started rebuilding the theme from scratch, and I am very pleased with what I have achieved so far. Screenshots are from windows 11.
I’ve found that often what I use canvas for is laying out timelines of events. What typically happens though is that I end up with a couple of parallel streams of events for context… and then every time I add a new parallel timeline I have to move everything to keep them actually lined up so that it’s actually useful to visually see timeline context and that’s what takes the most time.
For example if you were laying out your family history on a timeline, and had a parallel timeline with general historical events to give the family history context. Or maybe you’re an author trying to keep track of where multiple characters are across time in parallel storylines. That’s what I’m talking about.
Has anyone found a good solution for this? I’ve got a plugin I’m working on to help but I’m curious if this problem has already been solved.
I’ve been using Obsidian for a bit, but I’m still in the “lots of notes, no clear system” phase 😅
I din't thought it through at first, i just went on writing notes what ever i feel life, iwthout any tags or link, that helped in getting familiar with markdown for first time and app interface.
My goal is to turn it into a simple life system for goals, planning, CS learning notes, journaling, and daily logs—but I’m not trying to over-engineer it, or beautify it. functionality before aesthetic🌟
For people who’ve been using Obsidian for a while:
How are you using it day to day? What does your setup look like now?
And if you have any good resources, guides, or videos that really helped you get past the beginner stage, I’d really appreciate if you could share or point me toward them 🙏
I've been using Obsidian over the summer to take notes on books and any ideas I have.
Anytime I create a new note, after I finish writing it, I always get a huge hit of dopamine when I look at the graph. It's incentivized me to take more notes and write down my ideas.
Has anyone else experienced this lol?
I just want a good markdown editor. For me, this is all I need.
hi long time lurker.
would anyone want this.
I've been working on an Obsidian plugin that lets you directly draw, write AND type in the same Markdown note. What I imagine is people could type notes normally, and then draw over them OneNote style.
That's basically how it works.
At this point: you can write and erase, scroll normally, lasso, and undo/redo are working.
Testing it mostly on a Surface, so it's still early and Windows-only right now. Wondering if there's any interest
Prior to the new update, I could size an image by changing the number 𝑛 in ![[image.png|𝑛]]. But now I can’t seem to view that text instead of the actual image. I can only drag the corner of the image to resize it, which isn’t what I want.
You used to be able backspace until your text cursor was adjacent to the image embed and it would should you the text instead of the image, but this is no longer the case with the new update.
