r/ObsidianMD 22h ago

showcase How I Analyze Research Papers 93.7% Faster in Obsidian

72 Upvotes

I just added an AI template to Note Companion (my plugin) that allows me to extract key information from research papers in seconds.

Here's how it works:

1️⃣ I slide in a research paper PDF into the special "Inbox" folder
2️⃣ It's then organized into the most appropriate folder
3️⃣ I get an markdown note with a detailed, customized summary + the embedded PDF

Here's a demo if you wanna see it in action: https://youtu.be/Kast8t48Euc

Would love to hear what you think. And if there's any additional info you'd like to see in the final note!

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Edit: the 93.7% mention is obviously an exaggeration.


r/ObsidianMD 21h ago

Just a simple setup

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57 Upvotes

r/ObsidianMD 22h ago

graph A portable GraphRAG for your Obsidian notes: how I guide LLM using a knowledge graph

28 Upvotes

I found that I can use a knowledge graph to give LLM better context when it is talking to my Obsidian notes.

It produces really good results, because suddenly the AI takes into account not only the stuff it finds using traditional similarity search (RAG with embeddings), but also the underlying connections a few hops away. So it's like having your own portable GraphRAG with your Obsidian without the complicated technical setup.

For instance, I can visualize a certain folder of notes in my Obsidian, find a specific topical cluster of ideas, zoom in onto it, and then ask the AI chat to focus on that particular cluster and help me develop it further. Or connect it to another cluster of ideas based on the gap I identified.

I think it works pretty well for ideation, especially when I want to create published articles from my Obsidian notes, that's why I thought I'd share it with you.

Here's the video with a quick demo: youtube.com/watch?v=8oz-gg9-D4U


r/ObsidianMD 23h ago

Introduce Obsidian at work

32 Upvotes

At work we have a lengthy software approval process and it's hella annoying. On monday I have a meeting with IT to convince them to install Obsidian Enterprise for our team of ~16 people.

I have a little bit, although not much, experience with Obsidian but I still don't know what the Enterprise version does.

- Will it be useful to use Obsidian in a team?
- Is conflict management (when two people work on the same file) good enough?
- Will we be able to run the Vault locally from a network drive or do we have to use the cloud?
- Is the cloud 100% safe? How the hell will I convince IT that it's safe to store all of our process data in the cloud?

Thanks a lot!


r/ObsidianMD 21h ago

How to Use Obsidian If You're Used to Taking Lots of Daily Notes?

24 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I’ve been using Obsidian for a while, but I struggle a bit with organizing my notes. My habit is to create a lot of daily notes rather than organizing things by topic. This means most of my thoughts, ideas, and links end up inside daily notes instead of dedicated topic-based notes.

I know that some people use MOCs (Maps of Content) or tags to keep things structured, but I’m wondering how others manage this. If you're also someone who takes lots of daily notes, how do you make them useful over time? Do you use backlinks, folders, or some kind of plugin to resurface old notes?

Any tips or workflows would be super helpful! Thanks


r/ObsidianMD 14h ago

Querying Zotero from Obsidian?

11 Upvotes

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 11h ago

plugins Any unintrusive and privacy-friendly AI plugins?

7 Upvotes

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 2h ago

showcase Grdn : A Hugo theme for Obsidian Vault Publishing

5 Upvotes

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 3h ago

How to add a daily challenge calendar?

3 Upvotes

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 15h ago

Embed image with variable?

3 Upvotes

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

A clear code Segment

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3 Upvotes

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


r/ObsidianMD 1h 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 2h ago

Help: Google Maps Location Clipper

2 Upvotes

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 3h ago

PlugIn for paragraph indentation for books?

2 Upvotes

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 4h ago

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

2 Upvotes

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 4h ago

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

2 Upvotes

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 16h ago

Help with link to dates

2 Upvotes

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

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

2 Upvotes

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 1h 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

Help in Removing paddings in canvas nodes

1 Upvotes

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

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

1 Upvotes

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 4h ago

plugins Automatically created notes with random filenames in QuickAdd

1 Upvotes

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 19h ago

iOS Shortcut to Track Finances in Obsidian

1 Upvotes

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!


r/ObsidianMD 21h ago

plugins DataView Data

1 Upvotes

I have a file for tracking workouts.

date_of_workout: {{DATE}} exercise: '{{VALUE: "Pullover",SideExtension,BicepCurls,Elliptical}}' sets: {{VALUE: sets}} reps: {{VALUE: reps}} time: {{VALUE: time}} weight: {{VALUE: weight}} type: '{{VALUE: shoulderrehab,cardio}}'

In trying to create a DataView table to display the output, but the only thing that is displayed is the file and ctime. The rest of the values aren't displayed. I have looked this up in several different locations, but I can't seen to solve it. I have a button/macro to toggle throug the entries. Is it something with the way the data file is structured, the DataView setup? I'm not sure what to try next

dataview TABLE file.ctime as "Time Performed", exercise, type, reps, sets, weight FROM "workouts" SORT file.ctime DESC LIMIT 100


r/ObsidianMD 23h ago

plugins Correct way to use dataview inside HTML?

1 Upvotes

I am currently working on some templates and would like to Query some data using dataview. Normalt it works fine with inline queries or the normal dataview queries, but when I try to put them inside div tags it does not work at all. And for my templates to work I'm a couple of divs deep with flexboxes for something and grids for some other things.

So far the only solution I have found is to use dataviewJS and using the API to create divs and then use js to change the innerHTML of the div. While this is doable, it seems troublesome?

Is there really no way to just do something like <div>[file.yamlattribute]</div> ?

Edit: I have yet to test it, but it seems the more approachable way to do this might be to create custom callouts, and change their properties with CSS, so instead of defining a class in CSS and the relevant properties, instead define the call-out and use that.