Most USEFUL Obsidian Plugins I Actually Use
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// Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:27 - The Essentials
01:41 - Journaling
02:36 - Super Plugins
03:05 - Content Consumption
04:33 - Content Creating
05:40 - Artificial Intelligence
07:09 - Integrations
07:52 - Vault Maintenance
09:08 - Customizations
09:35 - Simple But Useful
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Sergio, the value-per-minute metric of your videos is completely off the charts! I learned about so many plugins that I haven't heard of before which solve a lot of the issues I've been having lately with obsidian! You blow other content creators completely out of the water, not only in the obsidian niche but everyone at large. Keep up the great work
That is amazing to read, thanks for inspiring me! :)
"value-per-minute metric of your videos is completely off the charts!" I couldn't have said it better.
+1 On your whole comment haha
100% probably one of the most effecient content creators I have come across.
I couldn't agree more. The quality is just out of this world. I kept pausing the video to research each plugin and install the ones that were useful to my workflow. Fantastic work Sergio, thank you for your work!
Sergio, thank you so much for your content AND the way you present it - No frills, no fluff, no beating around the bush, just clean direct content. Fantastic work, man!
Only seeing this now! Thanks so much for the kind words :)
@@FromSergio No worries. Keep up the great work!
Good video men thanks for all!
Essential Plugins
00:24
Setting Search: Search through Obsidian settings.
Commander: Customize ribbon commands and macros.
Recent Files: Quickly locate recently opened files.
Paste URL in Selection: Easily insert URLs into text.
Journaling Tools
01:44
Calendar: Create daily and weekly notes interactively.
Periodic Notes: Extend journaling to monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes.
Tracker: Add metadata to track daily activities.
Super Plugins
02:40
Templar: Advanced note templating.
DataView: Flexible data querying and display.
Content Consumption
03:08
Book Search: Import and manage book metadata.
Quick Add: Import and manage movie metadata.
Pod Notes: Manage podcasts and notes.
Content Creation
04:05
Projects: Multi-view content management.
Reading Time: Estimate time to read notes.
Better Word Count: Track word and character counts.
AI Integration05:58
Text Generator: Utilize GPT-3 API for text generation.
Integrations0
7:26
Kindle Highlights: Import Kindle highlights.
Readwise: Import Readwise highlights.
Obsidian Anki: Connect Anki cards to Obsidian.
Vault Maintenance
07:55
Update Tracker: Monitor and update plugins.
Note Refactor: Split notes and manage content.
Table of Contents: Create instant TOCs.
Cleaner: Scan and clean Vault.
Customizations
09:18
Home Page and Banners: Create customizable dashboards.
Style Settings: Customize theme appearance.
Simple Plugins
10:11
Natural Language Dates: Add dates in natural language.
Emoji Shortcodes: Easily add emojis with shortcuts.
Error Syntax Highlight: Highlight syntax in edit mode.
Its super refreshing to find someone who condenses so much value in their video. No wasted time, just to the point, useful information. I recently subscribed, and I'm really impressed by the way you approach your content.
I'm glad! :) Thank you!
You are absolutely killing it, Sergio. It's an absolute pleasure (and very helpful) watching you grow your channel. 😀
Thanks Dave, that's very kind of you to say, and I'm super glad you enjoy my content! :)
All right, I think I've found a treasure in your channel. I began using Obsidian a year ago, but my vault has become a disaster. I simply get overwhelmed by the myriad plug-ins and Workflows there are and I end up running away from Obsidian. But this? This channel is gold! Exactly what I need!!!!
Glad to see this! :) Hope you continue to enjoy my content!
Important addition for the Better Word Count plugin: it adds the functionality of saying how many characters/words are in a selected area. This makes it better than the native one and is especially useful for essays, e.g., when the References don't count towards the word count.
Absolutely! I use that function frequently!
I just discovered your channel. Subscribed! I really like how you carefully and thoughtfully lay out the content of your video. This means I get more information in last time, because you have already trimmed out all of the fat. Looking forward to watching more videos.
Thanks Adam, for acknowledging it! I do indeed spend a lot of time trimming the fat and planning every bit of the video, and comments like yours make it worth it :)
This video was suggested to me today because I’ve recently gotten into Obsidian. This video is fantastic. Thank you!
Thanks Steve :)
I'm so glad I came across this video. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for your great work!
Thanks Thomas, glad it was helpful!
4:42 Projects for project management
4:52 Database/ DB folder for further project management like notion
8:45 table of contents creator
8:53 janitor (detect unuseful notes to be easily deleted)
9:15 homepage & banner for dashboard
10:00 editor syntax highlight
Thanks for this video. I liked how compact, and practical your explanations are to these plugins. 5⭐
Thanks Roman, much appreciated!:)
Using Obsidian for a few years and half of your plugins are new to me.. Amazing value Sergio!
You got the right formula my friend, thank you for awesome content 💪
Thanks Tomer! Glad to see it :) and thanks for the ongoing support!
Excellent. Very helpful. Thank you for this! I grabbed about a third of what you recommended-and that's a lot for tech videos I watch!
Thanks for this - I super appreciate the tips for improving my Obsidian experience. I still have a lot to learn and I wouldn't make it without videos like this and people like you. Cheers!
Glad it was helpful!
Clear, to the point and packed with information. Thanks for the list.
Thanks Patrick :)
Excellent coverage - thank you. I look forward to trying out many of the plug-ins that you suggested.
Glad it was helpful!
Muy buen vídeo tocayo. Hace poco que empecé a oír hablar de Obsidian y estaba tentado de dar el salto desde Notion. Tu vídeo me ha ayudado mucho a iniciarme con esta herramienta y a ver su potencial y ya me veo abriendo más veces Obsidian que Notion, así que muchas gracias!
Un saludo desde Madrid!
Ah! Tocayo, had to google that one, I understand Spanish pretty much fluently but had never head that one, pretty cool! Muchas gracias y un saludo tocayo :)
i'm speechless, i can't believe how many i've missed for months, i'm so grateful :D
That's awesome! Glad it was helpful :)
As a new obsidian user, this was insanely helpful, thanks!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks Morgan :)
Thoughts while watching:
Setting search - I don't use it (I am in the setting enough) Licat said putting into core may slow app performance so not sure it will happen.
Commander - Agreed!
Recent Files - Agreed!
Paste URL - Agreed!
Calendar - I don't use it, querying information is easier and quicker
Periodic notes - I only need daily notes 🤷♂
Templater - Agreed
Dataview - Agreed
Book Search - I use Zotero instead
Quick Add - I like the plugin for different reasons
PodNotes - I use spotify for me
Projects - doesn't offer enough for me to use it
DB folder - My personal favourate!
Reading time - I don't use it ... meh
Better word count - Agreed!
Text generator - It is interesting!
Kinlde higlights - Agreed
Readwise - I use Zotero
Spaced Reptition - Love it
Plugin update tracker - It is so good!!!
Note refactor - I use the default options
Table of content - I use the outline core feature
Janitor - never found a use for this
Homepage and banner - meh
Style settings - YES
Natural language dates - Yes!
Emoji - I just use my keyboard
Syntax highlight - Not for me 🤷♂
Thanks for sharing Danny! i've had settings search for a long time now and haven't seen any hit in performance but I do have beefier than average systems - I use it on a Mac studio and a PC with a 3080 so I can't attest to that but I'm sure Licat is right as usual!
As for the rest - fair enough (although you have to change the last one!) :)
How you use Zotero instead of Readwise
@@bdfun568 blogs, videos, articles all get clipped to Zotero.
I can highlight in zotero and export all highlight with the zotero integration plugin and it concatenates when updates happen inside zotero.
@@DannyHatcherTech is zotero an alternative to raindrop?
You say you try to make sure your videos are pack full of useful content, and you nailed it. 👏
Thanks Ardid :) much appreciated! 🙏
Very inspirational video! Thank you again for helping us build more productive and healthy habits in our lives! I will watch all of you content from now on and recommend to others! Thanks again!
Thanks! Sorry I just got back to you, was on break :) Appreciate it!
I saw this video and immediately subscribed. Keep up the good work. Best regards from Greece.
Awesome! Thank you! :)
Dude! The Kindle Highlights plugin is the bomb. Thank you!
It is! :)
Awesome work Sergio! I'm a new Obsidian user thanks to your intro video. You're always very clear and to the point! Have a fantastic new year!
Hey, nice job! I just discovered Obsidian and your content has been super useful. Thanks!
Thanks Artu! Glad you enjoyed them :)
Sergio, again thank you. Your videos are always really really helpful.
Thanks Paul! Love your profile picture!
I'm gonna be honest. I didn't come into this video thinking I would find anything new. I was pleasantly surprised however, your list is absolutely excellent, and you taught me about so many plugins I didn't know of before. Liked and subscribed, keep up the amazing work, friend.
Thanks so much! Appreciate the kind words :)
As always: simply great. Thanks for sharing
Thank you! :)
Awesome video, thanks for sharing. Just got me up to speed and saved me a lot of time. Spent a couple hours setting it up perfectly and this was my guide. Thank you!!!
Thanks David I'm glad! :)
I'm certainly going to take a look at some of these plugins, as there are a few you've mentioned that I'd not heard of before, so ta for that! 🙂
Thanks Toran! glad it was helpful! :)
Love the content. You r helping my productivity!
Happy to help!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🚀 Overview of Obsidian Plugins
- An introduction to the video discussing the growth of Obsidian and the emergence of new community plugins.
- The speaker plans to categorize and cover various plugins used in their Obsidian workflow.
00:14 🔍 Essential Plugins
- The section discusses essential plugins that enhance Obsidian's functionality.
- Plugins mentioned include "Setting Search," "Commander," "Recent Files," and "Paste URL in Selection."
- These plugins help with settings search, customization, quick file access, and URL insertion.
01:55 📓 Journaling Plugins
- This section focuses on journaling plugins.
- The "Calendar" plugin for daily and weekly notes and "Periodic Notes" for more advanced journaling.
- Introduction of the "Tracker" plugin for tracking various aspects of daily life.
02:53 🌟 Super Plugins
- Discussion of plugins that significantly enhance Obsidian's capabilities.
- "Templar" for complex templates and "DataView" for versatile data manipulation.
- Explanation of how these plugins can be essential for advanced workflows.
03:50 📚 Content Consumption Plugins
- Introduction to plugins that aid in managing and consuming content.
- "Book Search" for importing Kindle highlights and managing book lists.
- "Quick Add" for adding and organizing movie information.
- "Pod Notes" for listening to podcasts and taking notes within Obsidian.
04:47 📝 Content Creation Plugins
- Discussion of plugins helpful for content creation, especially for RUclips creators.
- "Projects" for organizing content and "Database Folder" for structured data.
- Mention of "Reading Time" and "Better Word Count" for video production.
05:57 🤖 AI and Obsidian
- Overview of AI-related plugins in Obsidian.
- Mention of the "Text Generator" plugin using GPT-3 API for text generation.
- Anticipation of future AI development in Obsidian.
06:25 🤝 Integrations
- Discussion of integrations to enhance Obsidian's functionality.
- Mention of Kindle integration for importing highlights and Readwise integration.
- Brief mention of Obsidian Anki for connecting Anki cards.
07:07 🛠️ Vault Maintenance Plugins
- Introduction to plugins focused on maintaining the Obsidian Vault.
- "Plugin Update Tracker" for monitoring plugin updates.
- "Note Refactor" for splitting and reorganizing notes.
- "Table of Contents" for creating a table of contents within notes.
- "Janitor" for scanning and deleting unnecessary notes.
09:16 🎨 Customization Plugins
- Discussion of plugins for customizing Obsidian's appearance and dashboard.
- Mention of "Home Page" and "Banners" for creating customized dashboards.
- Highlight of "Style Settings" for extensive theme customization.
09:46 🌐 Simple but Useful Plugins
- Introduction to straightforward yet practical plugins.
- "Natural Language Dates" for adding dates in a natural language format.
- "Emoji Shortcodes" for using emojis with shortcode descriptions.
- "Error Syntax Highlight" for highlighting syntax in edit mode.
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Great content, delivery and product Sergio. I hope the folks at Obsidian appreciate you because without your guidance I'm not sure I'd have stuck with it. Thank you.
Thanks! It means a lot!
i LOVE the information density of your videos. clear and concise. keep it up
Thanks Landen, that means a lot as that's exactly what I aim for!
Thanks. Great work, as always. Informative and effecient.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Great video - thanks for posting. Packed with value. One idea for future similar videos, possible to include a list of the plugins in the note section? Thanks again!
Damn, fantastic list. I'll definitely be revisiting this as I'd like to dig into a few of those when I have time.
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it :)
This a very helpful video, you presented a useful summary of obsidian plugins, I followed your Mastering Obsidian series and it was awesome and I learned a lot from it, I want to say thank you and God bless you keep going your follower form DZ.
Thanks Bilal! Much appreciated! :)
I think the new coming canvas plugin bring Obsidian to a next higher level. I'm so excited
I think so as well, I have access to it as an insider and it's really well made!
Thank you 👏.
I would suggest shimmering-obsidian to the list for those of you using Alfred.
Keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to the IA video.
Thanks :)
Great and useful video! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Gracias por tu contenido Sergio, incluso yo que hablo español aprendo muchisimo de cada uno de tus videos. Sigue asi! Con contendio de calidas. Saludos!
Solo lo he visto hoy! Muchas gracias :) Saludos!
Sergio, as a new user of Obsidian, I find your videos extremely helpful and so clearly explained! Would it be possible, please, to create a video on a plugin called Annotator? I use pdf files *a lot* and I would love to see how this plugin works in a concise way.
Thanks Michail, I actually don't do much work with pdfs, so unfortunately I don't have that on my list :/
Brilliant as usual! ❤
Thanks Bruno :)
8:15 I understand you don't want to be stuck with a broken update if you need to do something important. With a permanent update offset however, you are not just relying on others to develop software plugins for free for you, but also rely on others to do the debugging of such free software for you.
If everyone behaves that way, you need to make sure your number of days delay in update is not the shortest, so better set it the update delay to 365 days.
What I miss from obsidian is a way to make handwritten notes I make with a tablet in my CS classes. Excalidraw is more for sketches and not study notes.
I have to say that I love the info-packed nature of your videos.
It's disheartening to watch lengthy videos only to find out that you got very little from watching them.
Maybe it's just that I'm taking detailed notes on what you say and it takes me twice as long or more than your video time?
Maybe I'm just thinking deeper?
Thank you for this! 😄
Thanks Jake glad you're enjoying the videos! :)
Fantastic video, thank you! Did you say you are planning a video on Commander? I'm looking forward to that if so! (I looked to see if you have one already and didn't see).
Hi Eric! I am, specifically on the macros section! :)
Super-super cool and useful!
Glad it was helpful!
Please do the video about the macros!
Thank you very much!
Glad you enjoyed it :)
excellent video, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
just installed obsidian and managed to export all my notes from onenote, really looking forward to using this software, and your videos is the best ive found on learning to use it - thanks man, you deserve this sub!
Hi Volapuk! Appreciate it! Nope, still there, that one almost feels native :)
I don't know if you are going to be dedicated to making videos about obsidian till it dies but so far you are doing a good job. Keep going. Are you going to talk about canvas soon
Obsidian is a big passion of mine, but I have a lot more that I want to share! I actually will begin uploading more non obsidian content as many have suggested as well! Starting with the next video, in fact. I am waiting for canvas to mature to make a video on it. I've been using it daily and the potential is there, but I don't usually do videos on brand-new features as a lot might change before it comes out of beta. I also don't just want to do an “overview” of canvas, but instead show how I'm actually using it.
THANKS !!!
Thanks! Great contents!
Glad you like them! Have a great one!
Thanks again for your thoughtful, well organized, and clear content. I’m curious about how you feel about how the use of AI particularly Gpt-3 will affect content creators’ authenticity? In my opinion, there’s an ‘event horizon” with audience trust and surveillance capitalism - AI sits on our timeline right now as an additional source (an input) vs an active part of parsing vault data and creating - I will never feel comfortable sharing my vault data completely - via AI API in obsidian or elsewhere. Your thoughts?
I have a video coming on that very soon :)
Hi Sergio, Auto Link Title is mush better than Add URL into Selection cause it does it and also can retrieve the web page title if you don't have a text selected.
Very usefull :) TKS a bunch
Glad it was helpful!
I'm new to these note taking software, I started learning logseq, but after watching your video it seems obsidian far superior software when it comes to daily tracking and many more things. Plus the yt tutorials for obsidian are great compared logseq.
Style settings (change theme)
Natural language date
Setting search
Reading time
Better word count
Plugin update tracker
Instead of "Paste URL", I've found "Auto Link Title" to be extremely handy with copying (or drag-and-drop) web links into my notes. Otherwise, thank you for this great video!
Great one, thanks for sharing, was not aware of it :)
Great work!
Great video.
Thanks for the great video! I'm curious whether you have a workflow for integrating notes made by Kindle Highlights with notes made by the Book Search plugin?
I don't actually, but that could be a cool project!
@FromSergio
You once pointed out that all plugins are not safe interns of privacy, which also suggested by official Obsidian team.
But are these plugins which are mentioned in these videos, safe? In terms of privacy?
No plugin is 100% safe but they offer too much functionality for me to not use them. If you absolutely require 0% risk then community plugins should be off the table.
I can’t wait to see how your system will change after the Canvas update. 🙂
I've been exploring it slowly and will definitely make a video on it in the future!
hey, can you please make a video about the excalidraw plugin and if it is safe for the long
run?
Hey! I don't use excalidraw, @nicolevdh does, and she's made a couple of videos on it, feel free to check them out!
dude u r so good at explaining this obsidian app im so new to it and im not gonna lie obsidian is kind confusing at least for me and u do great job at explaining things now i have problem regarding data view when i do from folder it shows all note including the ine with type or location my question is how i can show only note with yaml header on them insted of all note in certain folder
If I understand your question correctly you can do
```dataview
Table without ID author as Author etc.
```
Sergio great video as per usual! Curious is there something like Book Search plugin for Games or Anime?
Hi John, I'm not sure to be honest, I haven't heard of it at least!
Thank you!
Whenever I try to use "yes" or "no" in my frontmatter for Tracker, it doesn't seem to want to recognise it, only if they are 0 and 1 :/
May I ask - how is Projects different, for you, than just Kanban? Or is Kanban tracking but Projects is content?
Thanks buddy 🙂
Hey sergio, new to obsidian but do these plugins affect the mobile app too? (sync)?
How safe are the obsidian plug-ins? Is there a way to validate and monitor the data accessed and do these plug-ins share data elsewhere?
I made a video specifically about that, feel free to check it out :)
I cant wait to see more open ai integration with obsidian.
The future of human thought rests with these two tools working in tandem with our fleshy meaty bits rattling around in our skulls.
Add in nueralink and we have perfection.
> The future of human thought rests with these two tools working in tandem with our fleshy meaty bits rattling around in our skulls.
That was poetic! Loved it
does anyone know how he makes the lists to rate the movies and books? that is awesome and is something that I would like to do
your way to say “plugin” is the best way to say it
Hey Sergio. Is there a way to pass in some arguments when inserting a template in a note? Use case: let's say I want to have a template in which I put in RUclips embed code. When this is inserted in a note, I'd like to paste the URL of the video as the value of a fill-in or token in the pasted content of the template.
QuickAdd plugin perhaps?
Maybe try coding with Templater?
What is the spaced repetition video I cant find it
Nice video! There are some plugins I need to explore!
I have a question though to your overall and daily workflow. Do you ever experience any typing lagging issues? Recently, when I am using it will start “lagging” when I am typing or deleting.
I will be looking out for your dashboard video 🙌🏻
Not at all, obsidian is very responsive for me, could be related to your machine :/ My dashboard video was out 4-5 videos ago :)
9:37 with the Natural Language Dates, how do I add the time? Instead of the day
Hi Sergio please can you tell me how you did to install the space repetition plugging in ob because it is not installing from the community plugin button
I get the "unable to Create new file" pop up error mesage every time I try to create a note clicking on a day on the Calendar ... has it happened to anyone else?
Great vid. Btw, what do you know about “publish?” It’s the most confusing option in obsidian.
Although I don't use it, i'm familiar with it. What is it you're having issues with?
great
How your headers are coloured?
Using style settings plugin
I was sure I asked this and it's gone somehow but I'll ask again (maybe RUclips deleted the comment because I sent it with imgur link?)
on 9:17 you scale the trackers somehow to be fit into the Dashboard, I'll be glad if you could navigate somehow how to fix it because in my Dashboard it is bugger the grid.
Thanks ahead :)
You are probably using each tracker on the same sublist which is why they are shown in list form. Make sure to place each tracker at the top of a list. Like so:
# header
- Tracker 1
(no sub lists)
- Tracker 2
etc
If you put them all under the same list it'll render as one big list and not in a horizontal line. Hopefully this helps.
I love Obsidian, but I struggle with it on Mobile (Android). It makes me feel like for this reason Notion may be better. Any recommendations?
I'm the wrong person to ask, as I don't even have obsidian installed on mobile! Choose whatever you're most comfortable with, that's what's most important!
Would love to see an update on this video
I would argue that the "recent files" plugin is just a worse version of the built-in "quick switcher" feature. I say worse because 1) quick switcher shows the same recent files, but it excludes the file you are currently on, which is a good thing, and 2) quick switcher can also be opened and operated via keyboard instead of just via mouse (much faster).
Why would we use a Table Of Contents section when you can just use the Outline view and it updates automatically?
the way my jar dropped, when u mentioned settings search :O
:)
thank u :))))))))))))))))))))