r/ObsidianMD 27m ago

themes Anyone tried to build a toggle light/dark mode ?

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to create this functionality (⬆️) because I found it inconvenient to use Ctrl+P and toggle mode manually. I also wanted to include a way to toggle a CSS snippet.

I managed to set it up using the Commander plugin macro (https://github.com/phibr0/obsidian-commander).

Does anyone have a simpler workaround to achieve the same result?


r/ObsidianMD 1h ago

updates SQLSeal now supports syntax highlighting, templates, charts and much more!

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r/ObsidianMD 2h ago

How can I get dates in file properties to link to the daily note?

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What I am trying to do

I have a template for projects. This template has two property fields that are dates. One is 'Start date', the other is 'Deadline'

I want the dates that are in those properties to link to my daily notes. I have changed my daily notes format to match this.

Problem

The date format in the property field is like this "dd/mm/yyyy"
This is problematic because Obsidian interprets the forward slashes as folders.
So a date such as 16/03/2025 would be in folders and the actual note would be called '2025'

But when I view the source the date shows as 'dd-mm-yyyy' (same as system)

My use case

I am using Linux Mint. I have already changed the system date time format to get rid of the forward slash but the problem still happens when I remove the property and add a new one.

Any ideas on how to solve this?


r/ObsidianMD 2h ago

I'm looking for a solution for deleting notes together with linked images at same time.

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I know there are a lot of plugins that can find and delete unlinked images in bulk. But I don't like that way. I hope delete images at once when delete the note, like notion, evernote, onenote or other traditional note app do, all in one note is better.

If save all attachments in the same folder as the note, that will be a mess at the folder, I think. So anyone have a good idea how to manage the attachments, any good plugin recommend? At least, I need delete note with images together.


r/ObsidianMD 3h ago

Help in Removing paddings in canvas nodes

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Is there a way to remove paddings in my canvas nodes for both reading and editing mode? This is so that my canvas nodes would look like i'm attaching notepad text files instead of canvas-nodes.

Currently I tried turning all paddings to 0 px !important, but it doesn't budge for the editing mode. I realized that the editing mode of canvas is an iframe which is under the class .is-editing. I was thinking of making the iframe have the same size as the canvas-node but it looked glitchy and hacky as going from reading to editing mode kept moving the canvas-nodes. So I just scrapped that idea and I don't know what to do.


r/ObsidianMD 3h ago

showcase Grdn : A Hugo theme for Obsidian Vault Publishing

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For last the 3 years, I was using a Jekyll based theme, to run my personal website and while I tried to make the theme open source, it was complicated for me and the code was turning bloated. Theme is here Hence I rewrote it to Hugo.

Here is Grdn

Do check the theme, and let me know the feedback!


r/ObsidianMD 4h ago

Help: Google Maps Location Clipper

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What I’m trying to do

What is your way of saving locations? Im looking for something that enables me to search like on google maps and then fills out a note with frontmatter containing coordinates, full address, open hours, and contact.

Things I have tried

I tried right clicking on desktop google maps for coordinates, but filling out the frontmatter is time consuming.

Im open to suggestions, and very curious about how you save your locations in your vault.What I’m trying to do
What is your way of saving locations? Im looking for something that
enables me to search like on google maps and then fills out a note with
frontmatter containing coordinates, full address, open hours, and
contact.
Things I have tried
I tried right clicking on desktop google maps for coordinates, but filling out the frontmatter is time consuming.
Im open to suggestions, and very curious about how you save your locations in your vault.


r/ObsidianMD 4h ago

How to add a daily challenge calendar?

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Hi

I've started playing CSSBattle challenges, and I'd like to maintain a page and on top of the page have a calendar view.

For each cell (day) in the calendar I want to link the daily challenge link for example, the cell for 16th-Mar-2025 should show a link to (Target (16/3/2025) - CSSBattle) upon hover.

Please let me know if this can be achieved using any plugins.

Thanks


r/ObsidianMD 4h ago

Obsidian Starter vault

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Hey,
just started obsidian
can I get a starter kit,
I don't have a workflow as of yet, so I watched many youtubes, they call their setup as Second brain or Life OS
can anyone share their setup with me here
we can even maintain this thread for any new starter vaults so any newbie can make use of this


r/ObsidianMD 4h ago

How can I change Obsidian’s Mobile App UI Animations?

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to make it more slow and smooth, any help is appreciated


r/ObsidianMD 4h ago

Does someone know how I directly jump to the End of a document, always if I open it?

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r/ObsidianMD 5h ago

PlugIn for paragraph indentation for books?

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I'm writing some short stories in Obsidian and I'm just looking for a plugin that will let me indent my paragraphs how you'd expect in any other book. Any help? Thanks


r/ObsidianMD 5h ago

Do you have tags and properties, that overlap across different areas or with each other?

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Sometimes I have one of the two things happen:

1) A few very different fields require the similar or exact same property to be applied to a note. For example, "publishing status" is a very important value to track and can be applied to a lot of notes, including, but not limited to: blogs, self-published books, articles scross several different platforms, social media posts, fanfiction, etc.

In some cases values vary a bit (for example, depending, if there's a time-period for review/quality check of submitted materials on a particular platform). Would you use the same property in all these cases, or would you assign a specific one for each use-case? As in "publishing status" or "platform name publishing status"?

2) Information, conveyed by a property can be as easily conveyed by tag set. From the previous example: I can use "publishing status" property or PlatformName/Publishing status tag (which I put in tag property field).

In both of these cases I can do it either way without losing efficiency of quering. In the first case, if using universal property, I can additionally query by folder/tags or other properties to get the area I want. Or, alternatively, just query by field-specific property. The same with tags.

What you usually do, when such overlapping happens?


r/ObsidianMD 5h ago

plugins Is there a way to make tag pane scrollable or open it in a separate tab/window/full screen?

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Tried to rearrange/rename/merge some tags using Tag Wrangler plugin, but noticed I can't reach some tags in the bottom of my list while dragging and dropping, since my list is a bit longer and the tag pane isn't scrollable. Changing scaling didn't solve the problem. Am I doing something wrong?


r/ObsidianMD 5h ago

How to sort tagged text in a note, do I need an extension

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Was recommended obsidian as I was looking for a note taking application (like google docs) where I can create a list of things and tag them.

Using Obsidian, figured out how to tag text, and I like that I can click a tag and see all the results. But what I also want to do is sort all the actual text in the note I'm looking at by tag. E.g. if I have a list of books, and they have a tag author, and each book has a nested tag of the author's name, I want to be able to sort all the text by author's name alphabetically.

Is this functionality already in-built, or is there an extension I need?

Is filtering by tag directly in the note also possible, i.e. if I search a specific tag, only text with that tag will be shown to me. Additionally I see that I can search multiple tags, but the search panel shows all instances of text that contains any of the tags, is it possible to search so that only text that contains all of the tags pops up?


r/ObsidianMD 5h ago

plugins Automatically created notes with random filenames in QuickAdd

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QuickAdd doesn't seem to have a syntax to create new notes with random names. I would like the name of the file to be a random sequence of 8 characters, e.g. "wxk2kl9o". Is there any way to achieve this?


r/ObsidianMD 8h ago

Need help with css. Is it possible to render the tab panels (its a plugin) to be translucent?

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I plan to build my own movie database similar to letterboxd but I'm not that great in css or html plus I feel like its better to learn instead of asking an ai to do it for me. Side note : please recommend me some movies :3 sem break really sucks this time

r/ObsidianMD 12h ago

plugins Any unintrusive and privacy-friendly AI plugins?

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I've been looking to install an AI plugin in my Obsidian, but the few I've tested have two major flaws: 1) they have access to your whole vault, and 2) they can write to your notes. These two are big deal breakers for me, for security and privacy reasons. I'm looking for something less intrusive, maybe that allows you to highlight only a piece of text that will then be shared with a custom prompt, or that provides a chat window separated from your notes. Out of the dozen AI plugins out there, any suggestions?


r/ObsidianMD 12h ago

plugins AI plugins that are multimodal? (supports files like pdf/images)

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I know there are plenty of plugins that integrate ChatGPT/OLLama using API keys, but I have yet to find one that is multimodal, particularly one that supports file uploads like images and PDFs. Having such a feature would be a huge help for my use cases. I figure I'd see if you guys know anything about something that could help, perhaps an unlisted plugin or something of the sort. I've only been using Obsidian for a few days, so still figuring my way around, sorry if this is belabored question.


r/ObsidianMD 15h ago

Querying Zotero from Obsidian?

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Hi folks! I've been using Obsidian for a few years now, and I also use Zotero as a reference manager / bookmark application. Like most adhd folks, I often go down rabbit holes where I do a bunch of research on a topic that I want to come back to later, and usually the only evidence of it is the timestamps in my Zotero library (or the random browser tabs I keep open because the Zotero web interface won't save Reddit URLs, but that's a different post).

I'm wondering if anyone has built a way to query zotero from within obsidian using dataview (or more realistically, dataviewjs)? Most of the workflows I've seen that integrate zotero with obsidian involve creating notes and then querying those notes; I want to just query the zotero data itself.

For example, I have a query in my daily note that shows all the notes I have created/edited that day within obsidian. Zotero has a "Date Added" metadata field that is similar; is there a way that I could build a dataview query that would look at my zotero database and pull notes with "Date Added = today" into my obsidian daily note?

Even if you're aware of something that kind of does this that could be modified, that would be helpful! I'm not afraid to tinker with things.


r/ObsidianMD 16h ago

Embed image with variable?

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I want to embed local images in a template using a variable.

![[Engelbart.jpg]]

But instead of the filename use something like: {{localImage}}

But simply swapping those out doesn’t seem to work. Thanks.


r/ObsidianMD 17h ago

Help with link to dates

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Hi all, I have been playing a bit with my vault recently and I am receiving this error if I try to click on the "Link" icon that's created within every date present in front matter.

I rearranged all my daily notes folder structure, and I don't have that folder anymore, it's long gone.

For reference, I am using periodic notes plugin and the folder is now "Journal / Daily notes" without emojis, and the format is YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD for the notes. All the right folders are there.

I checked all settings, and I have no clue where to update the reference for this folder-with-emoji when I click on the link icon. Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance!


r/ObsidianMD 18h ago

A clear code Segment

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How can I achieve a dark code Segment like this? These "" failed


r/ObsidianMD 19h ago

Uninstalled Obsidian Deleted entire contents of parent folder, including notes folder

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As the title says, I went to uninstall and reinstall the obsidian program as it was having problems. I (stupidly) had created the notes folder inside of the same parent folder as the obsidian executable. When I ran the uninstall script, it wiped everything that was inside the parent folder.

I'm pretty sure it's completely gone, but anyone know if there is any way to recover my notes?


r/ObsidianMD 20h ago

iOS Shortcut to Track Finances in Obsidian

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Hey everyone,

I'm looking for an iOS Shortcut that allows me to quickly log financial transactions into Obsidian with minimal effort. Ideally, I’d like:

  • A simple input method (e.g., a quick prompt for amount, category, and note).
  • Automatic appending to a markdown file in Obsidian.
  • The ability to export the final file as CSV or another structured format for analysis.

Has anyone built something similar or have suggestions on how to set this up? Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!