Obsidian digest
My Obsidian-related work each month: new plugins and the features worth knowing about. Each summary below opens the month's full digest.
SubscribeOctober 2026
Three new plugins (Explorer Multi-Select, Labelled Links, Sibling Notes), switchable exclude profiles, section sorting, one-revert undo for bulk runs, and a new toolkit for plugin authors.
Read more…September 2026
Five new plugins (Advanced Markdown Export, Advanced Metadata Cache, Alias Quick Switcher, File Bundles, Preserve Frontmatter Formatting), web pages embedded in notes, path repair for synced vaults, and freer heading reordering.
Read more…August 2026
Three new plugins (Advanced Rename and Delete Handler, App Update Notifier, Link Picker) and vault-wide cleanup of unused attachments.
Read more…July 2026
Merge and split whole folders of notes in Advanced Note Composer, web images saved into the vault, nested properties in Obsidian's search, and HTML embeds that fit their content.
Read more…April 2026
A new plugin, Email to Vault, that turns emails you forward into notes.
Read more…March 2026
A new plugin, Nested Properties, plus two testing tools for plugin authors: obsidian-integration-testing and obsidian-test-mocks.
Read more…December 2025
Merge and swap whole folders in Advanced Note Composer, and JPEG conversion for every image in Custom Attachment Location.
Read more…October 2025
Two small new plugins: Edit Link Alias, to change a link's display text in one step, and Fix Tab Size, so Tab follows your indent width.
Read more…September 2025
A new plugin for embedding HTML files (Embed HTML), splitting a note at the cursor, and a default size for pasted images.
Read more…August 2025
Custom Attachment Location renames pictures shared from your phone, names attachments by their heading, and previews files before you name them.
Read more…July 2025
Scripts kept in notes (CodeScript Toolkit), several links in one property (Frontmatter Markdown Links), and slugified attachment names (Custom Attachment Location).
Read more…June 2025
Refresh Preview becomes Refresh Any View and can now refresh any open view, not just a note in Reading view.
Read more…April 2025
Split a note into one note per heading with Advanced Note Composer, and Excalidraw drawings that move with your notes in Custom Attachment Location.
Read more…March 2025
Four new plugins: Advanced Debug Mode, Advanced Exclude, Advanced Note Composer and Backlink Full Path.
Read more…January 2025
A new plugin, New Note Fixer, and CodeScript Toolkit (formerly Fix Require Modules) bringing scripts and code buttons to mobile.
Read more…December 2024
Three new plugins (External Rename Handler, Frontmatter Markdown Links, Insert Multiple Attachments), property-based attachment names, canvas backlinks, and temporary plugins for prototyping.
Read more…November 2024
Refresh Preview can now refresh Reading view on its own, when the file changes or on a timer.
Read more…September 2024
Custom Attachment Location can delete a note's unused attachments with the note, and rename attachments as it collects them.
Read more…August 2024
Custom Attachment Location can now move existing attachments to where they belong, and Consistent Attachments and Links can collect them as you edit.
Read more…July 2024
Two new plugins (Better Markdown Links, Refresh Preview), and Custom Attachment Location under new maintenance.
Read more…June 2024
Fix Require Modules turns your own scripts into commands, startup scripts and buttons inside notes.
Read more…January 2024
A new plugin, Fix Require Modules, lets Templater, dataviewjs and console scripts load Obsidian's own modules.
Read more…December 2023
Two new plugins for the File explorer: File Explorer Reload and Root Folder Context Menu.
Read more…September 2023
Consistent Attachments and Links under new maintenance, Smart Rename titles with characters file names cannot hold, and Backlink Cache for plugin authors.
Read more…March 2023
A new plugin, Smart Rename, renames a note while keeping the old title in its aliases and in the links to it.
Read more…May 2022
Three blog posts: why Obsidian became my note-taking app after many years of others, how to debug Obsidian plugins, and the software I settled on for organising notes, photos, books and music.
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