Jerod Santo (Apr 16 2025 at 16:08): Jerod Santo (Apr 16 2025 at 16:08):I've been using "vanilla" Obsidian for years, but I'm just now starting to do more hacking with it.
Most noteworthily, this week I found Jarkko Linnanvirta's Shell commands plugin and I've used it to add three niceties to my workflow:
How about you? Have any good Obsidian plugins/hacks/adventures to share with us?
Dustin (Apr 16 2025 at 20:23):Oh damn I wish I'd known about that when I was still using Obsidian! I had built out a PoC of using ripgrep to replace search as even a few months in I'd started finding it hard to find files
Thomas Eckert (Apr 17 2025 at 00:08):This is great! I'm just starting to write out some more complex scripts that I've been just calling from the terminal.
I've gotten some questions from folks about my Obsidian notebook setup so I started writing up a blog post, I'll share it when it's baked.
Alex Barnes (Apr 17 2025 at 17:35):Some of my most used are:
Dataloom - I basically use this as a task list I can drag and drop items into an order. The files are a custom format that is JSON under the hood which isn't ideal, but yet to find a better alternative.
Dataview - really useful, I mainly use it for it's ability to write js functions in files.
Folder notes - I like to use this so that I can click on folders and have a contents page showing the files inside folder. Makes navigation easier for me.
Slash commander - use too add new slash commands for commands I run regularly
Templater - I use this a lot for regular notes I make, so I can set the same basic layout for my weekly organiser and also set the date as the title.
Sync - finally bit the bullet and paid for the official sync service. Really glad I did, I was using a plugin called remotely save for a long time with minio. But had issues with files not syncing and losing changes. This feels a lot more polished.
Joe (Apr 17 2025 at 17:41):The shell commands plugin looks really code. One thing I always miss when using Obsidian is the built-in terminal like in VS Code.
I also use the Sync plugin like Alex and it's worth the $. It just works.
Before using Obsidian, I just had a pile of markdown files I stored in git. I wrote a Python script to aggregate all my TODOs into a single top-level TODO.md file. When I switched to Obsidian, I didn't want to run the script out-of-band so I made my own extension. I creatively named it Extended Task Lists.
It automatically aggregates your TODOs and also adds two new types of TODO: - [~] for things you won't do and - [.] for things in progress. Something I kinda picked up from Adam Savage's book Every Tools a Hammer is partially filling in TODOs (with pen + paper).
Tim Uckun (Apr 17 2025 at 22:34):I am amazed that you guys are so organized and have to much information to keep track of. I have never used a todo list other than my mail client.
I have flirted with some personal information managers back in the stone ages of computing. Two of my favorites were Ecco Pro which got sold and immediately shelved and info select which was a DOS program at the time and still exists (much to my surprise). I even tried org mode for a day or two.
Today I have some snippets of notes on apple notes and some on google keep. Just tiny little snippets of information.
Ron Waldon-Howe (Apr 17 2025 at 23:01):I keep wanting to adopt some sort of system, but then I allow perfect to become the enemy of good, wanting an impossible combination of features before getting started
Erik Lundevall-Zara (Apr 20 2025 at 11:05):I used to use Obsidian with a couple of plugins, but ended up switching to Logseq instead after 2+ years. It was too much time spent trying to optimise my setup. Logseq gives good enough organisation support right away, and also uses local markdown files.
For long form writing though, Obsidian was perhaps better.
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