Audio recorder
If your device has a microphone, you can use this to create an audio file on your device.
Backlinks
A backlink is a link from a file, into the file you are looking at. I think of this as a road to a house.
This is created after an outgoing link is made. This would be a road going away from the house.
The backlink’s panel has 4 options.
- Collapse/Expand results
- Show more context
- Change sort order
- Search
Each of these options are also available with the in document backlinks as well.
In document backlinks can be enabled for a file or for all files in a vault. The global setting may need an Obsidian restart.
Bookmarks
This replaced the old Starred plugin.
Save any:
- File
- Heading
- Block
- Search
- Canvas
These can move up and down in a custom order.
Group bookmarks, and save new bookmarks to groups.
Groups are like folders.
There are 3 options:
- Bookmark active tab
- Create bookmark group
- Collapse/Expand all
Canvas
An infinite canvas with zoom in and out options to see 3 card types:
- Blank card – Add any markdown in
- File card – Add a file from the vault
- Media card – Add links to media
- Videos
- Webpages
- Images
Custom colours can be added to cards and groups.
Groups surround cards and can be moved together.
Card alignment options are:
- Align
- Left
- Center
- Right
- Top
- Middle
- Bottom
- Arrange
- Row
- Column
- Grid
- Distribute/Justify
- Horizontal
- Vertical
Command Palette
Every command can be triggered through the command palette.
If there is a hotkey associated with a command, it will show in the menu.
For commonly used commands, they can be pinned to the top of the search.
Daily notes
Journal like notes can be created each day. The default location for files will be used unless told otherwise.
A date format for yyyy-mm-dd will be used unless changed. Click the “format reference” button for help.
You can then customize the daily note by using a template.
Files
Creating your first file or folder is often done using the files core plugin.
You can also alter the sort order of files shown.
Then collapse/expand the folders.
When right clicking on a file or folder, you are shown a context menu. There you will see a personalized list of options.
File recovery
This serves as your file history.
Snapshot are created to help you recover past work.
Graph view
The global graph can show every file in your vault.
Whereas the local graph view shows you files linked to the current active file.
Each line in the graph represents an outgoing link or a backlink. More links mean a bigger node.
Each node in the graph is a file. When clicked, you are taken to that file.
Format converter
This is used when migrating to Obsidian. It helps convert other file formats.
Note composer
Sometimes you have files you want to merge. This plugin lets you do that.
When you activate the command the file you are on will be put in the file you select.
You can be specific by right-clicking and extracting just a heading section.
After extracting a section you can choose what is left behind.
Outgoing links
Creating a linked file is done with [[]] which creates an outgoing link.
EG: [[File name]]
Outline
This acts like a table of contents for a file.
The active file will be shown by default unless told otherwise.
Every header is shown with options:
- Click to jump there
- Drag up and down to move section
- Link to file (so it doesn’t change)
Page preview
A pop-up view of the file will appear either with the mouse or mouse + ctrl which can be changed for:
- Search, Backlinks, and Outgoing links
- Reading View
- Editing view
- Files
- Bookmarks
Publish
Send your Local Obsidian Vault to a public website.
This is a paid add-on feature for Obsidian.
Quick switcher
Navigate your files through a search menu.
Show or hide:
- Existing files – Files can be pending if an outgoing link is made
- Attachments – Images are stored in Obsidian seporately
- All file types – All file types are available but not always shown
There are shortcut options:
- Arrow keys – Navigate up and down the list
- Enter/Return – Open file
- Ctrl + enter – Open in new tab
- Ctrl + Alt + Enter – Open to the right
- Shift + Enter – Create new file
Random note
Opens a random file from your vault.
Search
You can be extremely specific with your searches, which options for:
- Match case – Capital letters
- Explain search – Written explanation of search query
- Collapse/Expand results – Impacts the line specific results from files
- Show/Hide context – Impacts the amount of the file shown per line result
- Sort order – Change sort
- File name (A to Z)/(Z to A)
- Modified time (new to old)/(old to new)
- Created time (new to old)/(old to new)
Slash commands
Enabling this lets you type / to access the command palette.
Slides
Using dividers, you can create slides in each file.
A presentation will then go through from start to finish at the click of the next button.
Sync
A paid add-on service for syncing between devices.
Tags
Use # to make a tag, or add tag: in the front matter.
The tag pane can be customized:
- Collapse/Hide nested tags
- Show/Hide nested tags
- Change Sort order
- Tag names (A to Z)/(Z to A)
- Frequency (High to Low)/(Low to High)
Templates
Adding files into a specified template folders lets you use them as starting points for new files.
These can also act like file inputs by adding a template to an existing file.
Default template options include:
- {{date}} – Title of active file
- {{title}} – Today’s date
- {{time}} – current time
You can customize the date and time with formatting.
Unique note creator
Adds a unique ID for files using formatting.
Word count
Counts the words and characters in the active file.
Other options for long-form writing might suit you better.
Workspaces
Workspaces are the configuration of all tabs, files, and panels you can see or are active.
There are options to:
- Manage workspaces
- Load workspaces
- Save and load another layout
