🏆️ TOP 10 BEST Obsidian Plugins 🔌️
Summary
TLDRThe video script discusses the top 10 Obsidian plugins that the speaker finds most useful for their workflow. The first two, Templater and Data View, are highlighted for their ability to automate and process notes with custom syntax. The Update Time on Edit plugin is praised for maintaining crucial temporal metadata, especially after command line operations. The Zotero integration plugin streamlines research paper organization, while the DB Folder plugin offers a fine-grained search tool based on Data View query outputs. The Project plugin aids in managing YouTube video scripts, and the Commander plugin, though underutilized by the speaker, is noted for its potential to automate multiple actions. Daily notes and the Calendar plugin are essential for journaling and tracking progress, with the Periodic Notes plugin facilitating the creation of weekly, monthly, and yearly notes. Lastly, the Supercharged Links and Editor Note Count plugins enhance visual accessibility and organization within the vault. The speaker invites viewers to share their top plugin choices and reasons in the comments.
Takeaways
- 📚 **Templater and Data View**: The first two plugins mentioned are essential for note automation, processing, and viewing, with their own custom APIs and syntaxes for advanced functionality.
- 📅 **Update Time on Edit**: This plugin is crucial for maintaining temporal metadata, especially when using command line operations that may reset file metadata.
- 🔗 **Obsidian Zotero Integration**: A single template can organize all research paper content, including highlights and graphics, making it a must-have for academic work.
- 📁 **DB Folder**: This plugin provides a fine-grained search tool through a data view query output, with clickable buttons for managing large content.
- 🎬 **Project Plugin**: Useful for organizing YouTube video scripts and other projects within Obsidian, offering templates, fields, and various views for organization.
- 💡 **Commander**: Offers the potential to automate several actions into a single command, though the user has not extensively explored its capabilities.
- 📒 **Daily Notes**: A fundamental plugin for journaling and cataloging daily activities, with a template that shows the same day from previous years.
- 🗓 **Calendar and Periodic Notes**: Helps in tracking daily notes and creating weekly notes, with Periodic Notes facilitating access to templates for different time frames.
- 🔍 **Supercharged Links**: Enhances visual accessibility by applying CSS styling based on YAML metadata attributes such as 'type' and 'status'.
- 📂 **Editor Note Count**: A simple plugin that adds a count of notes within folders, providing an overview of the total notes for better organization.
- 🌟 **Top 10 Plugins**: The user recommends these 10 plugins (with some being part of bundles) for their functionality and personal use case, inviting others to share their top choices.
Q & A
What are the two plugins mentioned at the beginning of the script that are essential for automating and processing notes in Obsidian?
-The two essential plugins mentioned are Templater and Data View. They provide a lot of functionality for automating tasks and processing notes with their custom APIs and syntaxes.
How does the Templater plugin help in managing YouTube metadata?
-The Templater plugin can scrape YouTube metadata and create a block with all the metadata around the YouTube videos, making it accessible by Data View queries.
What is the purpose of the 'Update Time on Edit' plugin?
-The 'Update Time on Edit' plugin ensures that the created and updated timestamps (ctime and mtime) are preserved and accessible within the note, even when files are modified through command line operations that might reset metadata.
How does the Zotero integration plugin in Obsidian simplify the workflow for research papers?
-The Zotero integration plugin allows all content from a research paper, including highlights organized by colors, to be automatically imported into Obsidian with a single template, streamlining the workflow.
What does the DB Folder plugin offer in terms of managing and filtering notes based on metadata?
-The DB Folder plugin provides a granular, fine-grain search tool through a Data View query output, with clickable buttons for easy filtering and management of a large number of notes.
How does the Projects plugin help in organizing and managing different projects within Obsidian?
-The Projects plugin allows users to manage multiple projects with different fields and templates within the same interface, offering different views like table, combine, and calendar view for organization.
What is the Commander plugin and how can it be used in Obsidian?
-The Commander plugin in Obsidian allows users to automate several actions into a single command, which can be assigned an icon and placed in various locations within the Obsidian application for quick access.
Why is the Daily Notes plugin important for personal knowledge management?
-The Daily Notes plugin is important for personal knowledge management as it provides a structured way to journal thoughts, highlights, and events of the day, making it easier to keep a record of one's daily experiences and insights.
What is the role of the Calendar plugin in managing daily notes?
-The Calendar plugin helps users keep track of the daily notes they have made and assists in creating weekly notes, providing a visual and organized method to navigate through notes based on dates.
How does the Supercharged Links plugin enhance the visual aspect of links in Obsidian?
-The Supercharged Links plugin allows users to apply CSS styles to links based on specific attributes like 'type' and 'status', which can be defined in the user's theme, enhancing the visual aspect and making it easier to understand the content at a glance.
What is the Editor Note Count plugin and how does it assist in managing the number of notes in folders?
-The Editor Note Count plugin is a simple tool that adds a count of the notes within folders and a total count at the top, helping users to quickly see the number of notes in a folder and manage their content more effectively.
Outlines
🔌 Top 10 Obsidian Plugins
The video introduces the top 10 Obsidian plugins that the speaker finds most useful. The first two plugins mentioned are Templater and Data View, which are essential for automating tasks and providing a good view into notes and content. The speaker also discusses the Update Time on Edit plugin, which is crucial for maintaining metadata, and the Obsidian Zotero integration plugin for organizing research papers. The DB Folder plugin is highlighted for its ability to filter and manage large amounts of content, while the Project plugin is praised for its organizational capabilities. The Commander plugin is noted for its potential to automate several actions into a single command, and the Daily Notes and Calendar plugins are essential for journaling and tracking notes over time. The video concludes with the Periodic Notes plugin and the Supercharged Links and Editor Note Count plugins for visual flair and organization.
🎉 Sponsorship and Clothing Comfort
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📅 Organizational and Visual Plugins
The speaker details the use of the DB Folder plugin for filtering and managing content based on a data view query. The Project plugin is highlighted for its ability to organize and manage multiple projects within Obsidian. The Commander plugin is briefly mentioned for its potential to automate actions but noted as an area the speaker has not fully explored. The Daily Notes plugin is essential for journaling, and the Calendar plugin helps in tracking daily notes. The Periodic Notes plugin is praised for its ability to work with templates for weekly, monthly, and yearly notes. Finally, the Supercharged Links plugin is discussed for adding visual flair to links based on file attributes, and the Editor Note Count plugin is appreciated for its simplicity and utility in counting notes within folders.
🤔 Inviting Audience Engagement
The speaker invites the audience to share their top 10 Obsidian plugins and the reasons behind their choices in the comments section. There is an emphasis on understanding differing preferences and discovering new plugins that may enhance the user's experience with Obsidian.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Obsidian plugins
💡Templater
💡Data View
💡Update Time on Edit
💡Zotero Integration
💡DB Folder
💡Projects
💡Commander
💡Daily Notes
💡Calendar
💡Supercharged Links
💡Editor Note Count
Highlights
Obsidian now has over a thousand plugins available.
The top 10 recommended plugins are Templater, Data View, Update Time on Edit, Zotero Integration, DB Folder, Project, Commander, Daily Notes, Calendar, Periodic Notes, and Supercharged Links & Editor Note Count.
Templater and Data View are essential for automating, processing, and getting a good view into your notes and content.
The Update Time on Edit plugin provides created and updated timestamps, which are crucial for data view queries.
Zotero Integration allows importing all content from a research paper into Obsidian with a single template.
DB Folder is a granular search tool that works with data view query output and provides clickable filters.
Project plugin helps manage different projects within Obsidian, with templates, organization, and different views.
Commander plugin allows automating several actions into a single command and generating an icon for it.
Daily Notes plugin uses a template to create a daily journal, showing previous notes for the same day and related information.
Calendar plugin helps keep track of daily notes and create weekly notes, with a visual calendar interface.
Periodic Notes allows working with templates for weekly, monthly, and yearly notes, launching them from a single interface.
Supercharged Links enhances the appearance of links in notes based on file attributes like type and status.
Editor Note Count adds a simple note counter showing the total number of notes within each folder.
The presenter recommends checking out their video on Zotero Integration for a detailed workflow example.
The presenter has been using Obsidian for almost three complete years for daily notes.
The presenter is currently refactoring their fitness notes and using the note count feature to track progress.
The top 10 plugins are a mix of visual enhancements, automation, organization, and note management tools.
The presenter invites viewers to share their own top 10 plugins and reasons in the comments.
Transcripts
obsidian has over a thousand plugins now
that's a lot so out of all of those
plugins what are my top 10 some of them
I'm sure you could guess some of them
maybe not let's find out once again a
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so what are my top 10 plugins now the
first two you're probably going to guess
right off the bat you'll probably get it
but the first two are of course
templater and data view templ just like
data View has its own custom API it has
its own way of uh executing arbitrary
JavaScript code inserting template
variables there's a whole syntax and you
can really get in the weeds with what
you can do with templater just like data
View and with these two plugins the
amount of Firepower you can get when it
comes to automating excuse me automating
and processing and getting a good view
into your notes and your content it's
just
insane it is absolutely essential to
have these two plugins to learn the
syntaxes and really leverage these for
your Vault because it really unlocks a
lot of potential so this particular
templator template here of mine actually
scrapes YouTube metadata and creates a
whole like all all of the metadata
around my YouTube videos that I will
process puts it into a block so it's
already accessible by data view queries
and it's just bam done just by handing
it a YouTube url
phenomenal then data view comes in with
like look at how little syntax this is
and a lot of this is just the standard
keywords and really just a couple
different things and what I get from
this whole data view query is a grouped
list of all of my obsidian inputs all of
my input notes with all of their uh
different metadata the the date I
finished it the type it is and just some
additional plugins that I'll talk about
later grouped by Year and that little
amount of syntax gives me this awesome
overview into the entire timeline of the
inputs that I processed in
obsidian that's awesome and it doesn't
even take a lot to get to this now the
third plugin you might not guess right
off the top of your head now these
aren't in any particular order but it
does come after data view because it
works with data View and the plugin I'm
talking about is the update time on edit
which gives me the Crea and updated
timestamps here which are incredibly
handy for again more data view
Shenanigans now in data view you might
already know this but you get the baked
in variables file. ctime file. M time
which is created and modified basically
the same things that I'm talking about
this plug-in giving you so why do I have
these because my specific use case
literally caused me an issue with this
that these this plugin is essential for
me for I like to do a lot of things on
the command line because I'm very nerdy
and sometimes it's just more efficient
to do things on the command line and get
it done and what that does sometimes is
that when I process a bunch of files in
my Vault like's say I want to remove a
piece of text from a thousand files I
can do it in a single line command on
the command line it's done in two
seconds but then the way that a lot of
these commands work it resets the
metadata on the files it it says
basically all all these files are now
created now not when they were
originally created so the metadata is
basically lost so what update time on
edit plug-in does for me is it actually
hardcodes the values of those pieces of
metadata that are so crucial the
temporal metadata is usually an
incredibly crucial data point to always
capture and this gives it to me inside
the note always accessible always usable
and that way I don't have to deal with
that issue ever again and because it's
the plugin that's off always going if I
actually update this note it will
actually update the value in this field
automatically I don't have to do it
that's an awesome plugin and it's
incredibly useful for my particular use
case now the next one you'll probably
guess based on the video that I did
about it Link Card somewhere up there
the obsidian zoto integration plugin
with one single template all of my
content from aoto research paper all the
highlights organized with colors
everything iteratively is just plopped
right in there it's the simplest myoto
workflow has ever been ever and it was
just it's just amazing I I highly
recommend you check out my video on it
and do do check it out if you work with
research papers the obsidian zoto
integration plugin is Chef's yes it is
one of the best I mean just look at this
beautiful output I mean ignore the 300
something lines of metadata there but
all of the highlights from my research
paper just all of that Graphics too
everything ordered
organized the zoto integration plugin
yeah that one is a for sure major winner
now you've likely seen this one before
but the DB folder plugin I adore this
plugin because all of this is running
based off of a single data view query
the data view query just plops a bunch
of data right into this plugin and now
here it all is what do we do with it
well I can add fields from those files
that it picks up from the query and
they're all over there because it's
super zoomed in so yall can rate it um
yeah we'll just zoom out really quick
but all these pieces of metadata are in
each of these files based on the data
view query and I can just change add
more of those whatever but then the most
important part is that I have all of
these filters and their Progressive
filters so here's all the data from data
View and it's basically just all of my
inputs everything same as the timeline
view except this is a much easier way
for me to say oh I want to see all of
the video notes that I haven't processed
yet here we go all of those I haven't
processed yet because it has the red
square status so I haven't finished
processing ing it and so what the DB
folder plugin does is it gives you a
granular fine grain Search tool through
a data view query output but with just
clickable buttons and it's just like
working with just a higher level
interface to manage a large swath of
content I.E in this case input notes I I
Adore this plugin I really adore this
plugin now the next one is one I've
actually been using fairly recently I'm
not really flexing a lot in it I'm I'm
not really doing too much here but for
keeping myself organized it's actually
really nice and I really like it cuz I
already write my YouTube video scripts
in obsidian well now with the project
plug-in I can actually manage these vide
script files with templates with
organization with different fields I can
keep track of a bunch of stuff all
within this plugin now I'm not going to
show you this video script IDE is there
because no spoilers I see you trying to
look but I highly love this plugin
because you can also have several
different projects all within the same
interface you just switch to a different
project interface and there's all the
fields all the organization you can
switch it to table view combine view
calendar view all these different things
and it's all fairly simple out of the
box and really intuitive to set up it's
awesome projects plugin now the next one
is not quite so visual it's going to be
the commander plugin now I don't do a
large amount of things with commander in
fact I only have I think one command
that I've really defined and it was for
video notes but I recognize that this
plugin is powerful and it can do a lot
and I just have not gotten around to
playing with this yet and really
figuring things out and making it work
for me more I'm going to believe me but
this plugin is definitely worth checking
out and spending some time looking at
because you can automate several actions
into a single command and then you can
even generate an icon for that and put
it into somewhere in your obsidian
application on one of the general ribbon
tab bar status bar you can put it in
different places and so like my little
macro here is this icon and I could put
that somewhere add a delay add a command
auto run on Startup there's a lot of
possibility there like let's say if you
uh are starting on a particular day and
you want to have it on Startup
automatically create any missing notes
your weekly your monthly not or
something I'm sure that's possible it's
just an idea I just literally thought of
on the spot Commander lot of potential
here I have just haven't explored it
quite enough but you might find some
really cool use cases for it and if you
have please let me know them because I
might like them let me know in the
comments if you found any any cool uses
for Commander now the next one is daily
notes because of course you got to have
a daily note now my daily notes run off
of a single template and I've shown this
before it's fairly basic it also shows
me the same day in every other year that
I've had a note for this particular day
and it shows me any notes created on
this particular day for this note and
it's just my Daily Journal I just list
my thoughts I list the highlights for
the day like I mentioned in my last
video and it's just a great way of
keeping a record of your day and it
works well obviously with templater and
data view because I got templ stuff for
filling out the metadata when I open up
a new daily Note data view automatically
pulls in relevant information for me
that I might want to see on this daily
note and it's just you got to have a
daily note it's it's useful just for
journaling or just for cataloging your
actual journey through knowledge
curation and personal Knowledge
Management and to tie in with the daily
note is the calendar plugin I've been
using Cal calendar I think since it came
out and it's obviously still just as
useful I it helps me keep track of the
daily notes I have and haven't made it
helps me make the weekly note it's just
nice to see it here and this also um
this isn't one but I'm going to just
tack this on periodic notes because with
periodic notes I can actually work with
my templates for weekly monthly and
yearly notes and launch those all from
here so I can automatically use periodic
notes to jump to any of my template
notes for any of these time frames and
now I also just click on here to run my
weekly note but for the monthly in the
annual notes periodic notes is where
it's at and it's a super small plugin
just has that very small use case it
gets the job done so I'm bundling
periodic notes with calendar so the
final and 10th plugin that I
recommend is again another two pack but
it's going to be supercharged links so
supercharged links I have some CSS
defined in my particular theme but
that's where you can actually put it
that works with so if I go to
supercharged links there is two
attributes to Target for styling now
type and status if you if your file has
these two attributes it's going to look
for the value of those attributes and
apply some styling so there's some other
options here looks like I have
everything enabled but basically it's
going to look for type and and status
and determine what type of input note
and what status of processing it's in so
this is an article that I have finished
reading and that is how all these pieces
of visual flare are added to these links
or my notes um because these emojis are
added via CSS because those pieces of
yaml metadata are targeted by
supercharged links and in the same note
of just adding flare for the sake of
making things more accessible and
understand understandable is the uh
editor note count plugin super simple
plugin but it basically just adds
numbers counting the notes within
folders and ultimately the wrap up or
roll up at the top so you can see I've
got
almost almost
1,400 notes within my journal folder
which is including annual monthly weekly
and daily notes so you can see I've been
doing daily notes for almost three
complete years now um a while but this
lets you see at a glance all of the
totals of notes within folders and I
really like this because sometimes I
like to see when something is in a
folder because it shouldn't be or I need
to know how much left I have to go like
I'm converting a lot of these files in
these folders for my fitness notes fault
and I'm putting them into this
refactored one until I can finish all of
this refactoring and then put it into a
final resting zedel costen uh rout
directory and that's where everything's
going to live pretty much like my main
Vault so until I get that like I Le to
see these folders to see okay I got 27
more to process here 78 there 106 there
and that helps me keep track of things
and I rather like that so those are my
10 top 10 plugins that I recommend yeah
there were some bundles there but top 10
but I want to know where are your top 10
and why I want to know in the comments
tell me what are your top 10 plugins and
why do you recommend them the most most
especially if they differ from mine if
you have a different one I want to know
why you like it so much all right I'll
catch you all in the next
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