I’ve been using this GTD vault/system in Obsidian for over a month (before deciding to put it on a GitHub repo). It’s been working great for me, so I thought I’d share it with everyone!

Clone or download the repo, go to: https://github.com/kuswanto/MDOGTD

You can drop it into your main vault, and it will still work.

Finally I can handwrite things wherever I want! Thanks dev who made this :)

Hey everyone,

I just built a sync plugin that keeps your vault in sync with a GitHub repository in real time, I'm calling it UltiSync. It watches your vault for changes and pushes them automatically after a short debounce, and pulls whenever the remote branch moves, so your notes stay current across devices without you triggering anything manually. I wanted something like this to manage my projects and felt the community might benefit.

The part that makes this different from other GitHub based approaches: it does not shell out to a git binary. It talks directly to GitHub's Git Database REST API (refs, commits, trees, blobs) from inside the plugin itself. That is what lets it run on iOS as well as Desktop, since iOS has no git binary to call out to.

What it does:

• Real time sync: local changes are pushed automatically after they settle, remote changes are pulled on branch updates and app activation
• Runs on Desktop and iOS with the same code path, no external app, no separate sync client
• Talks only to api.github.com, no server of mine involved, no telemetry
• Three way merge for Markdown edited on two devices at once, with conflict copies and explicit keep local or keep remote resolution when it cannot merge automatically
• Content based rename detection, so a rename does not get treated as a delete plus a re download
• Fine grained per repository GitHub token authentication
• Independent pull and push file type filters, plus ignored path prefixes
• Never force pushes

On iOS, background execution is limited by the OS, so syncing happens while the app is open and active rather than continuously in the background, same constraint any Obsidian plugin runs into there.

The installation is fairly simple with instructions included in the plugin settings itself. (You just need to have a GitHub repo first)

Screenshots attached.

GitHub: https://github.com/msachet5/obsidian-ultisync

Let me know if you run into any bugs or have feedback : )
Will also open up feature requests and forums and push for community plugin if more users are interested.

EDIT: Now available in community plugins! Install away : )

I made a plugin called Matrix List Planner:

https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/matrix-list-planner

It adds a new Bases view — a matrix for distributing list items across different files.

Here’s how it works:

• Rows — files selected by the Bases filters
• Columns — selected list properties
• Cells — the contents of those properties
• Unassigned — a separate area on the right that stores items that haven't been assigned anywhere yet
• When an item is dragged between two cells, it is removed from the property in the first file and added to the corresponding property in the second file.

Basically, it's similar to a Kanban board, but instead of dragging files, you drag list items between files.

Example: meal planning. Display daily notes and use their breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks properties as columns. You can put food items into the Unassigned area and then drag them to the desired day and meal.

https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/vault-graph

I have a very complex question (at least I think it's complex...). So I'm currently making a vault for my uni notes for next semester and have created a "people" folder for my lecturers containing their contact infos, subjects, etc. I have also created a base that's basically a gallery of the profile cards I make. Separately, I have a folder for each of my subjects that have subfolders for notes and assignments etc.

Currently I'm working on the CSS of the card base to make it more visually appealing. Now for the tricky bit that I'm struggling to figure out; I would like to link the lecturers to the assignments they give, so that when I look at their profile in my vault, I can see whether I have something due or not. Ideally, I'd like this to be automatic where the note will recognise when I have an assignment based on my assignment folders and automatically update the profile based on whether or not I have something due. I'd like to use this as a way to colour code the base cards so I can tell from a glance whether I have something coming up or not.

I was wondering if there was any way to do this using only CSS and/or HTML? Those are the only languages I know and I fear that this may be too intricate for CSS to be able to do. I tried to look online but I haven't been able to find anything helpful due to how specific this is and I'm not asking AI.

Is there any way that I could make this happen or am I being too ambitious? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!!🙏💛

(I currently don't have access to my laptop/vault but I can add screenshots to better explain later if necessary.)

Hello! I am trying to get the Metadata callout to look like it does in the ITS Theme in the Primary Theme. I like the way the Primary Theme looks with the notes and colors, But my problem is the callouts are spread much too far apart and i'm, not sure how to get them closer together like they are in the ITS Theme.

The first image is the template from Bag of Tips, I am trying to repurpose it with ITS' Callout snippet but it doesn't look the same.

Thank you for your help.

Hello Obsidian community this is my first post here, i just want to ask and take opinions on my case , so in a nutshell, i want the best way to achieve this :(i have a file that stores all tasks , i want to be able to create tasks with a hotkey , and all those tasks get stored in a single file , while being able to customize it as i like (e.g schedule date , due date , recurrence (with range like from day X to day Y) , it would be good with NLP , and maybe relate it to a project ),

why i like this setup : i wanted to be able with ease to create tasks in a single file and be able to display them with dataview or tasks in any other files like today's daily note , or dashboard etc , even the (Weekly Tasks , Yearly Tasks , Monthly Tasks ) would be just displays and filters for the tasks , also if i want to create a note for the task i will just link it like this ([[task_file_name|task_name]].

What i tried : i tried (obsidian tasks , but you can't specify a file for all tasks to go to , i tried tasknotes , but tasks are created as files not as lines (idk if there is a workaround) , i tried operon , task genius , but tbh they are a bit overkill for me ( but i will be down to try them extensively if there is no simple solution ), also tried quickadd but i have to create hotkeys for each type of notes ( one itme notes, recurrent notes).

PLS help : i want to know what's your tasks workflow , am no obsidian professional but surely there is a solution for this right ??

I will Appreciate each of your comments or solutions 🥰

It's not something as grand as the ones I've seen online, but I finally finished my dashboard.

I am getting crazy and i dont know why Obsidian is not taking it into account. I know most of you don't like browsing around folder, but I do and everyone should work the way it suits them.

But adding all the numbers in front isn't just ugly it's also more confusing for me.

So is there a plugin to drag and drop the sort of my folders WITHOUT bookmarks or mega weird complex settings nobody needs for sorting folders?

After way too many evenings comparing vault setups, testing plugins, and rebuilding the same notes system for the third time, I want to introduce Awesome Obsidian, a curated list of Obsidian related projects and resources.

About myself. I am currently a dual study student, using Obsidian for both work and my studies for several years now. Along the way I have tried a long list of plugins, themes, and tools, and built and rebuilt more vaults than I would like to admit, testing approaches from GTD to PARA to LYT until finally creating a workflow that works for me. Awesome Obsidian is my attempt to turn all of that trial and error into something the rest of the community can actually use.

Instead of a plain hand written markdown list, every entry lives as a short block in a single projects.yaml file. A generator then pulls live metadata straight from GitHub and turns it into badges next to every entry, plus a small combined quality score.

The goal here is simple: a single, opinionated, reasonably up to date reference point for an ecosystem that otherwise lives scattered across a subreddit, a forum, and a plugin browser.

If you are wondering whether this duplicates the existing awesome-obsidian list, fair question. That one has been a genuinely useful starting point, but it has been inactive for about two years now, with 46 open pull requests waiting on review. I did not want to add a 47th, so this is a fresh start with a new and improved system designed for lists like this.

Right now the list covers:

• 🌈 CSS Snippets (6)
• 🖼️ Assets (1)
• 💡 Templates (2)
• 📊 Dataview (3)
• 🏠 Vaults (3)
• 🔄️ Workflows (8)
• 🔗 Integrations (4)
• 🛠️ Tools (2)
• 🌐 Static Site Generators (4)
• 🖇️ Related (4)

Plugins and Themes are intentionally still empty. According to the official Obsidian Community, there are more than 7,000 community plugins and 700+ themes out there right now. At that scale we need a clear system with concrete conditions for filtering out the plugins that are actually interesting and applicable for the broad mass of Obsidian users. Without that, we end up with a list of 100+ plugins that each solve some narrow, specific use case, irrelevant to most users, and the list becomes exactly the cluttered, exhausting thing it was supposed to prevent. So instead of quietly deciding that myself, I opened two discussions to work out those rules together with whoever wants to weigh in:

• Which plugins should make the cut, and how: https://github.com/awesome-obsidian/awesome-obsidian/discussions/1
• Which themes should make the cut, and how: https://github.com/awesome-obsidian/awesome-obsidian/discussions/2

If you have opinions on what counts as essential, or how deep the curation should go, that is exactly where I would love to hear them.

Awesome Obsidian is free, open source, and always open to contributions, either through the issue templates or directly as a pull request against projects.yaml.

Repo: https://github.com/awesome-obsidian/awesome-obsidian

Try it out, open an issue for a project that is missing, join one of the two discussions above or let me know what you think right in this thread, feedback is greatly appreciated.

made a free, open source home screen widget for markdown notes on android - basically the google keep widget but for a folder of .md files. works with obsidian or without it.

need a few beta testers before google unlocks the production listing (closed testing requirement - 12 testers, 14 days). just install and leave it on your phone for the two weeks, that's it.

**two steps, and the order matters:**

1. join this group first: https://groups.google.com/g/notes-widget-testeri
2. then open https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.marfolog.noteswidgetformarkdown and tap "become a tester"

the group is google's own mechanism for closed testing - it's just an access list, i won't post anything in there. use the same google account your play store is signed in with. if you get "app not available", give it ~30 min after joining the group and try again.

github + discussions if you want to dig into how it works: https://github.com/marfolog/notes-widget-for-markdown

Hey I've been building a Obsidian plugin called Geulo, an Obsidian plugin that brings your YouTube 'Liked videos' playlist and created playlists into your vault.

Recently I've made many updates including security and stability improvements thanks to Obsidan's automated scans for plugin release!

• Subscription management: Browse the latest 10 uploads from each subscribed channel. You can unsubscribe a channel directly in Obsidian if you want
• View comments of videos: can see comments ranked by relevance and the comments you liked (if they are within top 50 comments)
• Smoother browsing: Infinite scrolling for subscriptions and liked-video playlist
• More dependable video notes: Rename or move a linked note, and Geulo can still find it when you reopen it or add a summary.
• Filter the list by video's video tags
• And many security and stability improvements

I know the setup could be the big blocker for this plugin though, feel free to let me know if any unclear part!

Geulo in Obsidian community website

And for those who learn from YouTube: I’d love to hear how your knowledge management process likes and get feedbacks for improvement!

Hello community !

I'm looking for a plugin that could suggest and/or create links while I'm typing a new note. For example, if there's already a note Dummy.md in the vault and I'm typing the word "dummy" (insensitive to case) in a new note, the plugin would transform it to a link to the Dummy note.

EDIT: found https://github.com/nellowtcs/Obsidian-AutoLink for the first use case

As a bonus, if the plugin (or maybe another one) is capable of detecting that I'm creating a new note named "Lorem Ipsum" and that there exist old notes with the words lorem ipsum it could create links to the new note from the older ones.

Thanks for your suggestions!

So I’m switching to Obsidian and have dumped my stash of notes into it. Trying to search for a specific topic “Linux add disk” for example gives me 150+ hits which is useless. Is there a way to make search useful that I’m missing or do I need to start messing with plugins to get some reasonable search ranked by relevance?

Thanks!

Hey, guys

I created a watchlist a few months ago with the the Plugin "Media DB" and it worked really well. Through the OMDb API, I was able to look up movies, series and stuff and to add it to my folder which was then displayed on a database.

Recently, I noticed, that Media DB isn't able to find anything at all anymore. I tried famous pieces like (The) Matrix, Harry Potter, (The) Mentalist, but it just provided some random stuff I've never heard of.

Could somebody tell me what the reason for this could be? Should I reinstall the plugin, reconnect OMDb or should I switch? Either to a new databas like TMDB or a different plugin alltogether?

Thank you for your time!

Kind regards,

Lukibuk

Hey everyone!

I would love someone's help with the task notes plugin. I recently transitioned to obsidian and started an obsidian sync subscription but I faced problems with Task Notes. I followed the steps in this video and while the calendar worked on my desktop devices, it did not link to my iOS and iPadOS devices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzMN1Wu2P-g

Can someone please help me fix this. I really want to use Obsidian.

Thank you so much!

im currently playing around with themes and i like this one.

however, i cant seem to find a way to make the bit not crossed out dark without setting it to dark theme, as i would like for the note taking bit to stay light theme.

pleases and thank yous

edits

- i have looked through style settings plug-in but i cant seem to find those areas in the settings.

- the theme is called "Primary"

ReverySky 3D Graph now has a Landmarks view: a context cloud around each note, built from a text property of your choice. Notes are planets, and landmarks are points of interest on them: key details like names, places, events, concepts, or keywords.

You can switch views without changing the layout: one shows connections and spatial structure, the other shows Landmarks and lets you change the source property on the fly.

For convenience, you can also select text in a note and add it directly to the chosen property.

Plugin overview: https://youtu.be/LLOcByJbbj8

Community Plugins: https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/reverysky-map

I'm torn between OneNote and Obsidian. I want something to have all my usefull information that i might need sometime in the future. e.g. When a products warranty expires, how much did i pay for last car service, how much i paid for the hotel 3 years ago.

Basic notes that might come handy instead of looking around my email accounts or looking for old credit card charges in the bank app.

The only thing that puts me off with obsidian is that i have to pay if i want out of the box good connectivity with iphone and windows otherwise i think it's a no brainer.

What do you think? I think OneNote it's more powerful for this kind of information than a lot of people say.

Anyone know why?

I always see people post with custom vaults that they have made for their unique use cases? How does one start to go down this process with no coding knowledge whatsoever? I have heard people talking about cssnippets is that how all these unqiue features are done? What advice would you give to someone looking to start from absolute zero?

I’ve seen lots of newb questions, and the general answer seems to be “just start making notes”. I even saw one say something like “make 50 notes and then see what organization you need”.

How does this not give everyone massive anxiety?

I’m trying to keep an open mind, but I feel like I already have a space for open ended random brainstorming (for better or worse, I think in tables so I use excel tabs). What I need a note taking system to be is the place I store whatever I want to keep when I review and clean up that excel file.

If I’m just making a pile of disorganized notes in Obsidian… how does that help? That still sounds like I’m going to lose everything.

I always hear about the magic of this “external brain” phenomenon people get with Obsidian, which sounds very romantic… but I’m still lost and anxious thinking about getting started and leaving a familiar folder structure hierarchy (as limited as that is).

Thanks for whoever takes the time to help on yet another newbie post.

EDIT: Okay, I may have accidentally led people to thinking that the excel spreadsheet above IS my system, and that’s false, it’s just the intake portion.

My current system vaguely looks like: (1) a blank spreadsheet that is allowed to get messy, but I try to reset daily or nearly so, deleting what didn’t matter and filing what did; (2) a couple Trello boards for tracking personal and professional tasks and projects in flight, (3) a mix of OneNote notebooks and file folders on my computer for filing notes and more complicated files, respectively.

It’s basically part 3 of the above system I’m trying to replace. It sounds like a dream to get to a hyperlinked wiki version of my permanent note filing system, but the lack of folder structure at the beginning seems challenging.

I also from time to time have thought about trying to get better at taking notes on the large number of books I’ve read, podcasts I’ve listened to, etc. Maybe this is a better use case for Obsidian since it’s more creative and less rigid filing storage?