I have a question regarding Obsidian folder tree behaviour. I noticed this mainly in the Android app - not sure if it also applies to desktop: I recently restructured my vault and the majority of notes are now placed in one folder. I mainly use Omnisearch to find notes. However when I open a note and then switch back to the menu/folder tree, it expands the tree (the folder). As I have a couple of thousand notes it means endless scrolling - just to close it. Can I configure obsidian so it does not expand the folder tree once I open a note? Thanks in advance for your help!

The original font of Cyrillic letters are hard to read so I wanna change it.

I tried several css snippets using ai but none worked. Help needed!

I am using Vim for Obsidian. And I have a plugin where if I hit '/' in LaTeX, it will do a quick fraction on it. However, this only works when I'm in insert mode. For quickness, I can select everything I want from vFI, but I have no way of activating that if I'm not in insert mode. Is this problem unsolvable? Do I just have to delete and type out '\frac{p}{...' manually

hello guys! I'm new to obsidian and i've recently started using PDF++ as a plugin. It works fine but I just have one problem.

How do you remove the highlighted portion on the right side and make it like the one that is above it. I just want the formats of my notes to be the same. Thanks in advance.

I am running Obsidian on iPhone 13. The startup on app launch has been really slow. So much so that when I want to capture some thought and open the app the delay is large and it makes the friction to writing high.

I removed all the community plugins hoping it will help but still not much. It takes 5 seconds to load vault which is weird. I am running with local iOS file system and not iCloud backup.
I use syncthing to sync that local directory but that happens outside of obsidian.

Anyone knows how to debug and fix this?

Can I somehow disable markdown preview with symbols around my text in the Editor? It’s quite annoying to edit as they always pop up and shift the text.

ex. how it behaves now:
**__Nevertheless, it was quite obvious__**

If I type a new word, it'll keep defaulting and autocorrecting to whatever it thinks I'm trying to type. I'm at my wit's end.

Source: https://github.com/Nighty3098/OBSIDIAN_SECOND_BRAIN

Built a small Obsidian-style note graph, but with typed nodes: Observation / Hypothesis / Experiment / Reference — instead of every note being the same. Useful if you're tracking research where it matters whether something is raw data or still an unproven claim.

Also has a small (very informal, not scientifically rigorous) side panel comparing force/circular/hierarchical layouts with a 3-question quiz on graph legibility — mostly just a fun extra, not a real study.

Single HTML file, no backend, works offline. Feedback welcome — first time sharing this kind of tool.

Im on ios. Whenever i type in any of my notes, it scrolls me to top, makes it annoying to write in quick notes. What do u use to prevent this?

After giving Day One’s Gold Tier an honest chance for about three months, I’m returning with my journal to Obsidian. While the annual subscription is fine overall, there are several major issues that make Day One unusable for me compared to Obsidian.

Here is why I’m switching back:

1. Halfway AI Implementation in Day One. I find the presence of AI in a journal absolutely essential (though it must remain purely optional, as it is in Day One). However, the current implementation in Day One is totally absurd. The 🤖 is sandboxed; it can’t see regular timeline entries. This is an insurmountable obstacle for me because I need "play-by-play interaction" from morning to evening. If you’re going to implement AI, please make the robot fully available so we can interact with it/him/her directly within regular timeline entries.
2. Atrocious Block Editor. The block editor in Day One is extremely buggy and constantly freezes (or at the very least annoyingly wobbles) across the Windows app, the web app, Android, and iOS. We already know from WordPress how atrocious the Gutenberg block editor is; using this version is outright torture. It’s incredibly frustrating compared to the absolutely smooth, lightning-fast, and equally (or more!) capable pure Markdown editor in Obsidian. I know Automattic now owns Day One and will likely insist on using this block editor, but to me, it’s a serious design mistake.
3. Terrible Feature Parity. In Obsidian, you get every single feature on all platforms where applicable. If a feature makes sense on mobile, it’s there on both platforms. In Day One, you get certain buttons on iOS, different buttons on Android, and still other buttons on Windows and the web. The iOS version of Day One is clearly the most advanced, while all other platforms lag behind. This inconsistency is deeply annoying.
4. Difficult Export Options. There’s no easy, user-friendly way to export your entries from Day One. The only option to get a user-friendly Markdown export is on iOS (and presumably macOS), but the Android Markdown export is buggy and provides fewer options. From Android, Windows, and the web, you’re typically stuck with nothing but the technical JSON export, which isn’t user-friendly at all.

I’ve now purchased the $140 annual subscription for Obsidian Copilot, the finest AI integration plugin in Obsidian. Fortunately, it has nothing to do with Microsoft, so it’s great.

You can integrate any AI model using the Obsidian Copilot plugin, including completely free local LLMs if you can install them on your machine, but also using the standard API tokens route. There's also the middle ground between the two: that $140/year subscription I've just purchased, which provides you with a robot derived from Google's Gemini Flash 2.5. That's not a great model by any means, but it's comparable in performance to the ChatGPT model (4o-mini, 4.1 and other older models) that Day One has now integrated. Crucially, though, in Obsidian, thanks to its 100% transparency, you can tweak that internal robot's performance to your liking using any number of custom prompts. This is plain impossible in closed software like Day One.

While Obsidian Copilot can be used fully for free, I chose that subscription so that I can use a faster and slightly more advanced online robot. (Yeah, if I were paranoid, I could use my local robots, and then my journal would remain 100% private and would even work fully offline, despite AI integration.)

But because I also use Obsidian Sync, my journal automatically syncs across all platforms. I can talk to my journal assistant on every tablet, mobile phone, and Windows computer. It works flawlessly and 100% transparently. The Markdown files are just wonderful.

The finest feature of Obsidian Copilot is that when you talk to the 🤖 in your journal, a Markdown backup of that dialogue gets automatically created in the background. Whenever you say something or the 🤖 replies, that most recent response is automatically appended to that Markdown backup file and synced across all your devices, even during an ongoing conversation. It’s truly a live dialogue that helps you maintain your journal.

I’m really disappointed that Day One chose not to offer this kind of live dialogue, restricting it instead to that isolated sandbox of Daily Chat. That’s simply not enough.

I just installed Obsidian for a worldbuilding project me and a few friends are working on and I’d like us to all be able to work on it.

I heard I should use this app if I want to be a polymath bc it takes the form of a zettlekets…thingy. Maybe it’s because I have ADHD, but I’ve been pretty confused and overwhelmed by the obsidian tutorials I’ve been watching. I know there’s many methods and plug ins people use, and then some say not to use any. And all the setups seem to be project based and incorporating AI or doing the job of my Google Calendar and my bullet journal rather than just learning and expanding knowledge? I’m not a fan of AI and really don’t see a point in it if I’m just taking educational notes. I already have planning and scheduling methods, I just want to learn a lot of things and have an organized collection of what I learn. and I thought the links/web design would be amazing for that as well since that’s not only how my brain works, but I think relating knowledge is the whole point of how polymaths are so useful. So how do you organize your obsidian for just being a knowledge database?

I've been using a particular Dataview snippet of code for a while now to create nav links at the top of my daily notes without a problem. I recently got a new computer, and had to get Obsidian all set up on it, and I must have missed something, because now the Dataview code isn't working. But I can't figure out what I'm missing.

Here's the code:

```dataviewjs
/* previous/next note by date for Daily Notes Also works for other files having a `date:` YAML entry. MCH 2021-06-14 */ 
var none = '(none)'; 
var p = dv.pages('"Day Planners"').where(p => p.file.day).map(p => [p.file.name, p.file.day.toISODate()]).sort(p => p[1]); 
var t = dv.current().file.day ? dv.current().file.day.toISODate() : luxon.DateTime.now().toISODate(); // Obsidian uses moment.js; Luxon’s format strings differ! 
var format = app['internalPlugins']['plugins']['daily-notes']['instance']['options']['format'] || 'YYYY-MM-DD-dddd'; 
var current = '(' + moment(t).format(format) + ')'; 
var nav = []; 
var today = p.find(p => p[1] == t); 
var next = p.find(p => p[1] > t); 
var prev = undefined; p.forEach(function (p, i) { if (p[1] < t) { prev = p; } }); 

nav.push(prev ? '<<[[' + prev[0] + '|Previous Day]]' : none); 
//nav.push(today ? today[0] : none); 
nav.push(today ? today[0] : current); 
nav.push(next ? '[[' + next[0] + '|Next Day]]>>' : none); 
//dv.list(nav); 
//dv.paragraph(nav.join(" · ")); 
dv.paragraph(nav[0] + ' ← ' + nav[1] + ' → ' + nav[2]); 
```

I think I've isolated the problem to the "var p =..." definition. Something there is going wrong, and the list of pages in the "Day Planners" folder of my vault isn't populating.

A second set of eyes on this would be much appreciated! I'll also be taking a look as I have time at the Dataview documentation, but figured I'd ask here if the answer was obvious.

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?

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

Sou bem novata com obsidian e ja viciei, e no trabalho com pesquisa entre linguística cognitiva e IA, se quiserem compartilhar sugestões de plugins, temas, configuracoes, dicas etc aceito muito

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.

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.

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.

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?

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!

What's the Obsidian plugin that would just absolutely change your life? But doesn't exist yet.

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.