The Excalidraw plugin brings the Excalidraw sketching canvas into your vault and lets you create, edit and organise drawings alongside regular notes. It supports links between drawings and documents, embeds drawings in markdown, and can export synced PNG or SVG copies for use outside the canvas. The plugin also includes templates, markdown transclusion, image handling, LaTeX, block references and a large settings surface for display, filenames, auto export and compatibility behaviour. For heavier workflows it adds ExcalidrawAutomate, a script engine and tools for custom pens, OCR, SVG import and markdown snapshots.
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- Rank 15 years ago by Zsolt Viczian7,212,816downloads
- Rank 26 years ago by SilentVoid5,244,548downloads
The Templater plugin adds a scripting based template system to notes so you can insert variables, function output and custom logic instead of relying on static text blocks. It fits people who want templates to react to context, generate dynamic content and cut down repetitive note work. JavaScript support is a central part of how it works, which makes room for deeper automation and more technical workflows. It can also run system commands when a template needs to reach outside the vault.
- Rank 36 years ago by Michael Brenan4,759,858downloads
The Dataview plugin turns a vault into a queryable set of notes by reading metadata from YAML frontmatter and inline fields, then letting you surface that data in tables, lists and task views. It suits people who track books, games, projects or any notes with structured properties and want to sort, group or filter them inside regular pages. The plugin supports a Dataview query language for common lookups, inline expressions for live values in notes, and a JavaScript API with rendering utilities for more custom views. It also supports inline JavaScript expressions. Regular queries stay sandboxed, while JavaScript queries run with normal plugin access, so they need more care.
- Rank 45 years ago by Clare Macrae and Ilyas Landikov (created by Martin Schenck)4,016,810downloads
The Tasks plugin brings vault wide task tracking into plain Markdown notes and adds a query language for collecting open work anywhere you need it. It supports due dates, scheduled dates, done dates and recurring tasks, so repeating chores and dated reminders stay in the same workflow as the rest of your notes. You can group, sort and limit query results, then review them in reading or live preview without moving tasks into a separate system. The plugin also lets you toggle task status from its views and includes a create or edit command for faster updates. It fits people who manage project lists, routine checklists and cross note follow ups inside one vault.
- Rank 56 years ago by Tony Grosinger3,103,731downloads
The Advanced Tables plugin for Obsidian brings a new level of flexibility and control to your markdown tables. With this plugin, you can easily navigate, format, and manipulate your tables like a spreadsheet. Auto-formatting ensures that your tables look professional, while Excel-like navigation makes it simple to move between cells and rows. You can even use formulas to perform calculations and add functionality to your tables. Additionally, you can sort rows by a specified column, export to CSV, and set column alignment for precise control over your data. With Advanced Tables, you'll be able to work with your data in Obsidian like never before.
- Rank 66 years ago by Liam Cain2,996,944downloads
The Calendar plugin adds a sidebar calendar that helps you move through daily notes visually and see how your writing builds over time. You can open any day, create missing daily notes from your current template and spot activity through dots that reflect word count and unfinished tasks. It also supports weekly notes, including opening them from week numbers and configuring their folder, template and format. The view respects your daily note settings, can start the week based on your locale or a fixed day and allows styling through CSS variables and class overrides. It is a practical fit for people who manage journals, logs or planning notes inside a date driven workflow.
- Rank 76 years ago by Vinzent, (Denis Olehov)2,989,977downloads
The Obsidian Git Plugin plugin brings day to day Git work into a vault so you can track changes, commit updates and sync with a remote repo without leaving the editor. It can run automatic commit, pull and push on a schedule, pull on startup and handle submodules for more complex desktop setups. The plugin adds a source control view for staging files, committing and checking diffs, plus a history view for browsing commits and changed files. It also shows added, modified and deleted lines in the editor and lets you work with branches, remotes and .gitignore entries. GitHub links for file view and file history are built in too.
- Rank 85 years ago by mgmeyers2,583,225downloads
The Style Settings plugin gives CSS snippets, themes and plugin styles a common way to expose user facing options in one settings pane. It reads @settings YAML blocks from loaded CSS files and turns them into controls for class toggles, dropdowns, text values, numbers, sliders and color variables. This makes theme and snippet customization easier to manage because authors can define adjustable values directly in CSS instead of building separate interfaces. It also supports grouped headings, info text, themed colors and optional commands for class toggles, so larger style packs can stay organised.
- Rank 95 years ago by mgmeyers2,531,155downloads
The Obsidian Kanban plugin lets you create markdown backed Kanban boards inside your vault. It is built for people who want a more visual way to organise tasks, plan ongoing work or track items across stages without moving away from plain text files. The focus is simple: boards live in markdown, so the workflow stays close to regular notes instead of a separate system. That makes it a natural fit for vaults where task planning and note taking overlap.
- Rank 105 years ago by FlorianWoelki2,169,041downloadsNote Enhancements#icon
The Iconize plugin is a game-changer for Obsidian users who want to add a personal touch to their notes and folders. With this plugin, you can easily add custom icons from any SVG file or icon pack to give your content a unique visual identity. Whether it's adding icons before file/folder names, in notes, above titles, or even in tabs, Iconize makes it all possible. Plus, with customizable settings and custom rules, you can tailor the plugin to fit your specific needs. Overall, Iconize is a powerful tool that will help you visually organize and differentiate your content in Obsidian.
- Rank 115 years ago by fyears2,141,281downloads
The Remotely Save plugin allows Obsidian users to sync their vaults with various cloud storage providers, including Amazon S3, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, and WebDAV. It supports both manual and scheduled synchronization, with options for end-to-end encryption to ensure data security. The plugin provides features such as skipping large files, custom exclusion rules, and basic conflict detection. Advanced features, available in the PRO version, include smart conflict handling and support for additional cloud providers. Users can sync across multiple devices and platforms, including mobile, using cloud services as intermediaries.
- Rank 125 years ago by Christian B. B. Houmann1,990,574downloads
The QuickAdd plugin is a game-changer for Obsidian users who crave efficiency and productivity. It combines four powerful tools - templates, captures, macros, and multis - to help you streamline your note-taking process. With QuickAdd, you can create custom workflows that automate tasks, such as creating new notes with pre-defined templates and content, adding links to specific files, or even chaining together multiple actions for complex workflows. The plugin's syntax is similar to Obsidian's template syntax, making it easy to customize and extend your workflow. Whether you're a power user or just looking to boost your productivity, QuickAdd is definitely worth exploring.
- Rank 13a month ago by Yishen Tu1,765,926downloads
The Claudian plugin brings AI chat into a vault with support for Claude and other provider setups such as Codex, Grok, Opencode and Pi. It lets you mention notes, folders, MCP servers and external files directly in a conversation, then move between chat tabs, resume older sessions and fork work when a thread needs a new path. Plan mode can inspect a problem before applying changes, while instruction mode adds quick prompt guidance inside the editor. The plugin also keeps shared skills and prompt templates at user and vault scope, stores session metadata locally and exposes settings for provider paths and environment variables.
- Rank 144 years ago by Simon Cambier1,738,597downloads
The Omnisearch plugin replaces basic vault lookup with a much faster search flow built around relevance ranking. It helps you find notes, PDFs, Office documents and images from one place, with BM25 based scoring that weighs matches in file names, headings and body text. Results appear instantly, typo tolerance is built in and quoted phrases or exclusions make narrowing a query less clumsy. You can jump between vault wide and in file search, insert internal links straight from the results and stay on the keyboard the whole time, including Vim keys if that's your habit. It also exposes an optional local server for querying your vault from outside the app, which makes it useful beyond everyday note finding.
- Rank 154 years ago by Cuman1,738,474downloads
The Editing Toolbar plugin adds a visible writing toolbar and a compact editor layer for people who do not want to depend on memorised shortcuts. It brings word processor style controls into notes, with toolbar layouts that can stay at the top or follow the cursor, plus a tiny mode for tighter spaces. You can apply headings, colours, alignment, list indentation and horizontal rules from buttons, then tweak the setup further with custom command icons, renamed actions, nested menus and drag sorting. It also supports multiple windows and tabs, and includes focus modes that either hide side panels or push the note into a cleaner full screen view.
- Rank 166 years ago by @kepano1,738,117downloads
The Minimal Theme Settings plugin is a game-changer for Obsidian users who want to customize their theme without digging into code. This plugin allows you to adjust various settings, including color schemes, background styles, and font sizes, all from the Obsidian Settings panel. With this plugin, you can easily switch between different color schemes, such as Atom or Solarized, or create your own custom scheme using the Style Settings plugin. Additionally, you can toggle light/dark mode, customize hotkeys, and even adjust settings like underlining links and font sizes. Whether you're looking to simplify your workflow or add some visual flair to your notes, this plugin is a must-have for any Obsidian user who wants more control over their theme.
- Rank 173 years ago by Logan Yang1,675,143downloads
The Copilot plugin turns a vault into an AI workspace for search, drafting and research. It lets you chat with notes, query the full vault, run quick edit commands on selected text and build project level context from folders or tags. The plugin also handles content from the web, YouTube, images, PDFs and EPUB files, which makes it useful for comparing sources or pulling ideas into one place. Its Plus features add an agent that can call tools on its own and work with time based queries or image understanding.
- Rank 183 years ago by Obsidian1,529,871downloads
The Obsidian Importer plugin helps move notes from other apps and exported files into your vault without turning the process into manual cleanup. It converts imported content into plain text Markdown, which makes migrations easier when you are coming from tools like Apple Notes, Bear, Evernote, Google Keep, Microsoft OneNote, Notion or Roam Research. It also covers common file based inputs such as CSV, HTML and Markdown files, so it is not limited to one service or workflow. The focus here is straightforward transfer rather than sync or publishing.
- Rank 195 years ago by Viacheslav Slinko1,348,713downloads
The Outliner plugin is a powerful tool for Obsidian users who want to create deeply structured lists and move items around with ease. With its intuitive interface, you can enhance the style of your lists, move them back and forth without breaking the structure, and even stick the cursor to the content while typing. The plugin also offers advanced features like vertical indentation lines, drag-and-drop functionality, and enhanced hotkeys for better navigation and manipulation of your lists. Whether you're a student, researcher, or simply someone who likes to organize their notes in a specific way, the Outliner plugin is definitely worth checking out.
- Rank 205 years ago by mirnovov1,271,991downloads
The Homepage plugin allows users to set a specific note, canvas, or workspace to open automatically when launching Obsidian. Users can configure how previously opened tabs are handled-keeping them, replacing the last note, or closing them all. The plugin supports opening the homepage in various views, such as Reading, Source, or Live Preview, and can revert to the default view when navigating to another note. Additionally, users can trigger Obsidian commands upon opening the homepage, enabling seamless integration with other plugins like Dataview to create dynamic landing pages.
- Rank 216 years ago by Tony Grosinger1,152,974downloads
The Recent Files for Obsidian plugin adds a sidebar list of the notes you opened most recently, so getting back to active work takes one click instead of a search. It focuses on navigation and a bit of cleanup control. You can exclude specific paths, ignore notes with chosen frontmatter tags and leave bookmarked files out of the list when they should stay separate. The entries behave much like the file explorer: open a note, open it in another pane, use the context menu, drag it into an editor as a link, send it to a chosen pane or move it into a folder.
- Rank 224 years ago by Brian Petro1,147,168downloads
The Smart Connections plugin is designed to enhance your Obsidian experience by leveraging AI to find and connect relevant notes. By using AI embeddings, it provides real-time suggestions of related notes through the Smart View, making it easier to discover connections in your vault. The plugin also offers Smart Chat, which enables dynamic conversations with your notes, allowing for better information retrieval and exploration. It supports both local and cloud-based AI models, ensuring privacy and flexibility. Additionally, the plugin offers customizable settings, including note exclusions and integration with AI models like GPT-4, Gemini, and Claude. Overall, it streamlines the process of linking and managing notes, allowing for a more efficient and insightful note-taking experience.
- Rank 236 years ago by PJ Eby1,027,478downloads
The Tag Wrangler plugin enhances your Obsidian workflow by introducing powerful tools for managing tags. With its intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, you can effortlessly rename or reorganize tags. The plugin allows you to create or open dedicated tag pages, blending the organizational strengths of tags with the structure of linked notes. Its context menu adds versatility, letting you search, exclude, or interact with tags directly. Advanced features include batch renaming hierarchical tags, ensuring smooth tag management across your vault. Whether refining tag hierarchies or leveraging tag pages for centralized insights, Tag Wrangler streamlines the process for a more organized note-taking experience.
- Rank 245 years ago by Victor Tao1,017,372downloads
The Linter plugin cleans up note structure by applying configurable rules to headings, YAML fields, spacing, list markers, footnotes and other markdown details that tend to drift over time. Instead of forcing one fixed format, it lets people enable the rules they want and tune how each one behaves, so the same setup can support strict writing standards or lighter cleanup. Its rule set spans YAML, headings, content cleanup, spacing and paste behavior, which makes it useful for keeping files predictable without rewriting them by hand.
- Rank 252 months ago by callumalpass973,440downloads
The TaskNotes plugin turns each task into its own Markdown note and uses Bases queries to power list, kanban, calendar, agenda, and mini calendar views. It stores task data in YAML frontmatter, so tasks stay portable and easy to edit outside the plugin. Natural language entry helps create tasks quickly, while configurable properties let existing workflows map fields like due dates or custom metadata. It also handles recurring tasks with per instance completion, optional occurrence notes, time tracking, Pomodoro sessions, dependencies and computed formulas inside the bundled views. Calendar sync is available for Google, Microsoft or ICS sources and the plugin can connect to external tools through its HTTP API, CLI, browser extension and webhooks.