I recently started using Obsidian and found this in the documentation of the ITS theme. However, I'm using Cupertino (largely because ITS isn't very visually appealing to me), so making text adjacent to an aligned image isn't a native feature in this theme. Are there any plugins or CSS snippets that enable this feature?

My vault started as a simple dump of notes and now it's somewhere around 800 files and I genuinely have no idea where anything lives anymore. The graph looks cool but it's not actually helping me find things faster.

I've gone back and forth between folders and tags and at some point I mixed both and now it's just chaos. Some notes have deep folder paths, some are floating in root, some have tags that I stopped using a year ago and never cleaned up.

Curious what people who've had vaults for 3 or 4 years actually landed on. Did you do a big reorganization at some point or just let it evolve and accept the messiness? I've seen posts here where people share graphs after years of use and they look incredibly organized, so either those people have serious discipline or there's a system I'm missing.

The MOC approach seems like the thing everyone eventually gravitates toward but every time I try to set one up it feels like I'm creating more overhead than it solves. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

What actually clicked for you after the vault got big enough to feel unmanageable?

TL;DR

Capsidian now supporting take multiple images and import to your vault, linked to your files at once

It's been a while since my last update about this small tool. I've been layoff and unemployed for nearly 4 months now. It's have been a hard time for me. the new AI era affected me as an Mobile Developer

So sorry that I don't have much energy to keep this tool update new features for those time, although I have a big bucket backlog for it. It just feeling depressed all the time.

Now I feel like I have something to work for while waiting for new opportunity. I don't know who's out there still using this tool, but if you need a small tool for your Obsidian Vault on Android, which can help you capture you thought quickly, take a quick look at Capsidian. Thank you all.

Link to Google Play

Just started my Obsidian vault couple of days ago and finished setting up my dashboard. What do you guys think?

I’ve been working in IT/System Administration for the last decade so... I've accumulated a LOT of notes. I've always kept a private repo in GitHub over the years so I can just store generic information to help me with things I've worked on. A buddy of mine recommended Obsidian and I fell in love so... I starting working on this project because I like writing notes in Obsidian, but wanted a cleaner way to browse everything more like a proper IT knowledge base.

My vault stays exactly where it is and remains the source of truth. The site gives me the same folder structure, along with search, favorites, tags, backlinks, graphs, revision history, and a full Markdown editor. It runs locally in Docker for now, but I may host it privately later.

There’s also a built-in Codex assistant (because I don't want to pay some ridiculous API costs) for when I need help writing, searching, or updating something. It can only prepare a draft so nothing gets published back to Obsidian until I review the changes and click Publish myself.

It’s still a work in progress, but it’s finally starting to feel like my own workspace!

Hello again!

I've wanted to let you that you can now fully customize vim cursors too. I've also added a show vim mode in status bar.
To enter Vim mode you will have to toggle it through the plugin settings -> CUA (Common User Access) / VIM

Btw, a fast way to use this plugin is with command palette (ctrl + p). Cursor-Smith has two commands:

1. cycle presets
2. toggle on/off the plugin

If you find any bugs, request any feature please open an issue on github or write it down here!

Have fun!

https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/cursor-smith

I get why Graph View is appealing. It looks beautiful and gives you a different perspective on how your notes are connected.

For example you maybe write a book and helps you see your characters, places, stories... connected. But...:

• How do you deal with the visual noise without losing focus?
• How do you organize or cluster nodes?
• How do you actually extract useful insights from/using the graph?

Finally, what are your real-world use cases for Graph View? Has it genuinely improved the way you work, or is it mostly a visualization that's nice to look at? Did you build a framework for using that Graph?

https://reddit.com/link/1v3e2ji/video/kw33ihx7zreh1/player

My Latest PlugIn TRY this Week:

ReverySky Map

MoonSkorch Studio (thanks to the creator: u/natkorch)

Interactive 3D graph built with a game engine and shaped into an explorable universe.

video

https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/reverysky-map

Map embeds a 3D Unity WebGL map view in Obsidian for inspecting vault structure. It builds the view from Markdown notes, resolved links, tags, note dates, and file metadata, then keeps the runtime in sync with the active filter and focused note.

ReverySky

• Requirements
  • Obsidian 1.12.7 or later
  • Desktop only
  • WebGL-compatible graphics hardware and drivers

This was really easy:

•  ReverySky Map from Obsidian Community plugins.

There is a github: https://github.com/moonskorch/ReverySky-Plugin

I've been playing with since I saw this post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1v2e0ai/reverysky_the_3d_cosmic_graph_i_shared_here_now/ (learning REDDIT actually so if I need to delete this let me know. Thank you!)

Hi all,

I've been building a kanban plugin for Obsidian over the past couple of weeks (free, source available), and I'm at the point where I'd like some actual users other than myself and my own vault.

It doesn't do anything revolutionary — boards, cards, columns, drag and drop, the usual. The one thing I did differently is that each board is stored as a plain markdown table in a fenced code block, so if you ever open the note without the plugin, or the plugin breaks, or you just want to grep your boards, it's still just a table sitting there in the file.

It's early — v0.4, around 100-ish installs so far, mostly just from being in the community directory.

I'm sure there are edge cases I haven't hit and workflows I haven't thought about, so if you try it and something's annoying or missing, I'd genuinely like to hear it — that's mostly why I'm posting.

If you're curious why I built yet another kanban plugin in 2026 instead of just using what's out there — the existing community kanban plugin is great but hasn't seen active development in a while, and I wanted something I could keep improving alongside actually using it myself for my own notes and AI workflows.

If you want to give it a try, just look for Fancy Kanban in Obsidian's community plugins.

Feel free to leave feedback here in the comments, or on GitHub if you'd rather file something more specific — either works for me.

Thanks for reading this far.

Full release notes can be found here:

• Obsidian 1.13.3 Desktop (early access)
• Obsidian 1.13.3 Mobile (early access)

You can get early access versions if you have a Catalyst license, which helps support development of Obsidian.

Be aware that community plugin and theme developers receive early access versions at the same time as everyone else. Be patient with developers who need to make updates to support new features.

Hello I’m new to obsidian but liking it so far and thinking to get Sync. If I get sync will all the plugins and themes also synced if I use different device such as Mac/windows/iphone?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use the **Live PDF Preview** plugin in Obsidian, but I can't get it to open.

My setup:

- Obsidian version: 1.12.7

- OS: Windows 10

- Live PDF Preview version: 1.3.4

- Theme: Custom theme

Problem:

- The plugin is installed and enabled.

- The command **"Open Live PDF Preview"** appears in the Command Palette.

- When I run the command, nothing happens.

- No preview pane opens.

- No error appears in the Developer Console.

- Restarting Obsidian does not fix it.

- There are no plugin settings available for Live PDF Preview.

Things I tried:

- Restarted Obsidian.

- Checked the Developer Console (no errors).

- Reinstalled the plugin.

- Verified that the command is available.

Has anyone faced this issue or found a workaround

I specifically want this plugin because I need to see page boundaries while writing notes for PDF export. Advanced PDF Export works for me, but I would prefer Live PDF Preview if possible.

Thanks!

I want to be able to click the New Note button in the left-hand panel and have it automatically go to a specific folder, for example a folder called Fleeting Notes. But at the same time, I also want to be able to create a note within another note that automatically saves in the same folder as the current note it was created from. For example, if I highlight a term in a paragraph, right-click, and select Add Link, I want that new linked note to automatically be created in the same folder as the note where the term was highlighted.

Ink Floating TOC update to v1.0.4

Whats new:

1. Added Dot option in bar style with its resize slider
2. Added Uniform Item size toggle
3. Added Item spacing slider

- Code cleanup

Link : https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/ink-floating-toc

Would love to know you feedback

Hi all.

Is there a way to scope down or partition property values to specific folders? Or to specific "parent" property values? Similar to how Notion tables are limited for the tables.

For example: I want to have multiple groups of notes with a "status" property. However, these should have different values so that:

FolderA status values: A,B,C

FolderB status values: D,E,F

instead of seeing status values A, B, C, D, E, F for both folders, and having to pick the ones that make sense for each context.

I used folder for examples, but it could be some other property like "project:A" or "project:B".

I'm new to obsidian. My brief research didn't return results for this question. The only way I found was to have different properties (status.folderA, status.folderB).

Thank you very much.

Been annoyed for a while that resizing a Canvas card doesn't resize its text, only zooming the whole canvas does. Went looking for a plugin that fixes this and came up empty. There's a forum thread asking for exactly this from a while back, 6 likes, no response, nothing built. Checked Advanced Canvas, Node Auto Resize, Resize Card Plugin, and Font Size Adjuster too, none of them touch it either.

So I built Canvas Text Scaler. Resize a card, the text inside scales with it. That's the whole plugin.

When I first posted this star map built in Unity, it was part of a standalone project. Your feedback inspired me to rebuild it as an Obsidian plugin. That turned out to be quite a challenge, but here it is!

ReverySky Map is an interactive 3D graph that lets you explore your vault as a connected universe. It runs on a bundled Unity WebGL runtime with live graph updates and integrated note navigation.

Now available in Community plugins.

GitHub: https://github.com/moonskorch/ReverySky-Plugin

Features:

• Combined filters by path, tag, and date
• A dynamic force-directed layout for smaller graphs
• A wide panoramic starfield for larger, denser graphs
• A chronological layout that arranges notes by date
• Stress-tested with graphs of up to 10,000 notes
• Opening notes from the graph and highlighting the current note
• Pan, zoom, rotation, and timeline navigation
• Detailed and simplified display modes
• Graphs with or without tag nodes
• Longer notes appear as larger nodes; more connected nodes glow brighter

Technical details:

• Desktop only
• The graph view uses GPU rendering
• Render Scale can be lowered on less powerful systems or raised for a sharper image
• Tested on a limited range of desktop configurations, so compatibility reports are welcome

Have fun!

I've sadly walked away from obsidian active usage and sync due to a new job. Went with vs code as a replacement and learning curve was tough but starting to bear fruit. Connect an nlp tool to it and its lightning for productivity, just as obsidian is. Even a graph view plugin out there!

Anyhow, has anyone else made a similar switch? what are the gotchas? Happy to share how I quasi architected it.

Just got obsessed with the RSS Dashboard…

I wanted my Obsidian to look like my Vivaldi browser and did some research and found that the RSS dashboard just had an update. I don’t know if I’m doing this right, but I can drop and drag my YouTube channels that I want to see the latest and organize them.

1. Extremely easy to use.
2. Added YouTube favorites.
3. I’m working on 🐣 and stock & finance news.

Who else is using this to customize their boards? I can believe it’s free! 🔥💜💻👏Thank you!!

obsidian://show-plugin?id=rss-dashboard (community plugin search inside Obsidian) here’s the GitHub: https://github.com/amatya-aditya/obsidian-rss-dashboard

So thankful!

Hi y'all,

I'm trying to find out how to convert my notes from OneNote to Excalidraw/Obsidian.

I want to say almost all of my notes are ones where I imported the lecture slides and/or note pages as 'printouts' in OneNote so that I could write over them. I have a Yoga with a stylus and I've always loved the potential of digital note taking.

The issue is that I don't know how to import any of my notebooks without having to do hours upon hours of work to make sure that everything is overlayed correctly.

Does anyone know how to merge the text onto the PDF and then save it? And how to quickly import those pdfs as separate notes in Obsidian?

I tried using the importer and it turned everything into a mess, so I'm hoping for a better solution. Thanks in advance!!

I know it's technically smarter to use text because it's searchable, but I very much need to hand write stuff in order to memorize it.

You can see it in action here: https://youtu.be/ycyCGCtScdc?t=435

Here is the GitHub link: https://github.com/andymatuschak/interactive-transcripts

I’m curious about the step between discovering useful content and turning it into an actual note.

When I find a valuable article, YouTube video, GitHub repository, or Reddit post, saving the link is easy.

The difficult part comes afterward:
reopening it;
understanding it;
deciding what matters;
writing a useful note;
linking it to existing ideas;
remembering that the note exists when it
becomes relevant.

Because of that friction, a lot of saved content never makes it into my actual knowledge system.

For people using Obsidian, what does your real workflow look like?

Do you manually summarize everything you keep? Use a read-later service? Import highlights? Let AI create an initial note? Or only process something once it becomes relevant to a project?

I’m also curious whether automatically generated summaries are genuinely useful in a vault, or whether they eventually become another form of clutter.

before it used to show like a glossary and now it is like that, anyone can help me ? (idk if it can be related, but i use style settings)