🏆️ TOP 10 BEST Obsidian Plugins 🔌️

[@dside_ru]

"File Diff" was a great find for me, especially as a Syncthing user. I often modify notes offline on different devices and thus end up with merge conflicts that this plugin helps me quickly solve.

[@BryanJenks]

good suggestion!

[@ProductivePM]

Bryan, your videos are an essential part of Obsidian experience. Thank you for your insights and videos . . . All the best!

[@BryanJenks]

Glad you think so :D

[@funzy688]

Always learning from this guy. Your Templater walkthrough was a gamechanger for me, and it’s always rewarding to incorporate a new plug-in and feel it’s impact on your note-taking.

[@BryanJenks]

❤️

[@DannyHatcherTech]

I use commander all the time. My main use is to have a button for activating a workspace (using the workspace plus community plugin). So I can push my home button and it takes me to my home dashboard canvas. Metadata menu is what I use instead of DBfolder.

[@BryanJenks]

awesome ideas, gonna look at metadata menu, always good to hear from you Danny :)

[@hanharry5975]

he is the god of obsidian to me, the vault he shared on the internet gave me a lot of inspiration

[@BryanJenks]

Thank you for the support!

[@AndyJessop-q5d]

Hey Bryan! Love your videos - what theme are you using? Anything custom to get it the way it looks for you?

[@BryanJenks]

Gruvbox with a lot of custom CSS

[@P4TCH5S]

bro u are so high level i dont even know whats going on! but we learning! liked and subbed BABY!!

[@BryanJenks]

Thanks for the sub!

[@chaos_monster]

2:35 the big learning for me is `` to avoid have frontmatter (properties) in your templates with the new property view of Obsidian. Big win

[@BryanJenks]

Great one! Thanks for sharing!

[@niceasta]

this third plugin is EXACTLY what I needed: I sync notes between my phone and PC using Syncthing, but it makes the file.ctime and .mtime look different on different devices: in one, a dataview table looks one way; in the other, it's totally different I'll definitely be checking it out; if it doesn't work as I want, I'll just make an easy template do to it. Thanks!

[@BryanJenks]

glad you found it helpful!

[@_Optional_]

Very much agree w/ "Supercharged Links". It seems to be much underrated by the Obsidian community writ large. The only one you didn't mention is Natural Language Dates which allows easy insertion of dates.

[@BryanJenks]

oh yeah NLP dates, i do have that one, it really is underrated as it just does its thing in the background lol

[@arurirorivs]

Your excitement makes me adore your plugins too 😂❤

[@BryanJenks]

:)

[@silvermushroom-gamifyevery6430]

I don’t know where they’d go on a top ten list, but, Podnotes & Media extended are staples if you take notes from anything other than books, since with templates they reduce the action threshold for actually studying video / audio on the go to nigh nothing Metadata menu is a godsend for habit tracking and task management, as it’s what gets you editable dataview queries from anywhere in your vault And honorable mentions likely goes to obsidian cron, Obsidian url, and google calendar plug-ins, for auto recurring and generated templates, with the option to add to calendar ala Notion , albeit in the testing phase on my end.

[@BryanJenks]

didnt know about podnotes, that might come in handy for me right now actually given how airr.io just kicked the bucket. and if i didnt have prompted input popups for my daily notes, then obsidian cron would have been perfect, thanks!

[@Buddinski88]

Very nice video, Bryan! Thank you. One question: With the dataview query for your timeline. How did you manage that the icons for type and status are displayed? The same query in my vault (which is based your template vault) only displays the filename 😞

[@BryanJenks]

supercharged links plugin combined with some YAML metadata and CSS :)

[@Buddinski88]

@@BryanJenks nice. Thank for the feedback. Supercharged links and style settings are installed. Do you have maybe a video which explains the configuration a littlebit more? :-)

[@Buddinski88]

Update: I figured it out :-) Now to the update of the templates.

[@timbushell8640]

Missing perhaps is "Admonition" - maybe 'cause I don't really deal with format styling in CSS - but the application of some styling to just indicate actual quotes, initial thoughts and thought/quotes/notes applied from elsewhere just to give me visuals on the when/where/and what promoted these note/paragaph additions as I process and revisit notes and reading note especially. So two classics that get differentiation are quotes of a text and quotes taken from a text... Similarly - if reading (more likely an article but could be a book) for a second time or a second project... the second pass is styled differently. Trouble with the Zot plugin still needs work, but...

[@BryanJenks]

im not using admonition, whats that one for again?

[@timbushell8640]

@@BryanJenks formating 'bits' of text, into warnings, help, quotes, etc. "Callouts" in otherwords.

[@marble_wraith]

In Obsidian there's no way to properly move a tab into a side-by-side editor view. Using the native split right command does open the active doc in a side-by-side view, but it leaves the original doc on the left open, so now you have 2 editors of the exact same duplicate doc open side-by-side... which is basically useless most of the time, it's not a code editor for diff-ing 🙄 usually you're wanting to have 2 *different* docs open. Pro use for Commander. You can hack your way and emulate proper move functionality by macro-ing the following actions: 1. split right 2. focus on tab group to the left 3. close current tab 4. focus on tab group to the right It does come with some caveats which only a dedicated plugin could solve, but it's really nice to just be able to move a tab into a side-by-side view automatically, without having to use the mouse to close the tab on the left.

[@BryanJenks]

thats very clever!

[@userX-jb8yq]

Thanks for your video! It was amazing as always. Did you mean 'File Explorer Note Count' in the 10th plugin (bundle)? It was 'Editor Note Count' in the video.

[@BryanJenks]

Yes 🤣

[@BrianBlais]

One of the reasons I don't use dataview as much as perhaps I should is that I see no way to save the result. I realize that the point is for it to be dynamic, but I also want my vault to be as futureproof as possible, and being able to back up my dataview results would go a long way.

[@BryanJenks]

the DB folder plugin can display the output of a dataview query and has an option to export to csv, that might be more in line with what youre looking for

[@BrianBlais]

@@BryanJenks thanks!

[@BryanJenks]

My pleasure!

[@dd.oliver]

You have the best videos on Obsidian. My only complaint is that you never show the read mode. Always on the source mode, for those who doesnt know coding get very frustrated in the videos.

[@BryanJenks]

Haha sorry, I’m almost never in read me haha I’m always editing things and looking at source view though now it’s live view so I guess it’s a mix now

[@cmcconnochie]

Thanks for showing what is possible.

[@BryanJenks]

My pleasure :)

[@d3lta_p]

UpdateTimeOnEdit looks really useful, as someone who switches between Windows and Linux where ctime doesn't work

[@BryanJenks]

Bingo! Another use case

[@Danielo515]

You know what goes well with dataview and templater? Modal forms

[@BryanJenks]

i have used them a lot myself, that are nice indeed

[@Danielo515]

@@BryanJenksyou men the modal-form plugin or something else?

[@romanmunar]

Hey thanks again for the useful video. How did you prepended two emojis with supercharged links? I have checked their issues page which says it's not yet possible, but it's here :/

[@BryanJenks]

It’s done with CSS in combination with the plugin, I’ll be making a video about it soon

[@romanmunar]

@@BryanJenks dude it's just `float: left;` for the appended emoji. don't make it a video hahah it's fine brother.

[@BryanJenks]

Video was gonna be about the full setup of the plugin and configuration as I get a lot of comments about it

[@tantran2711]

Can you instruct how to configure the supercharged link so that type and status getting the same symbols in the vid. Also, can you also explain how to enable db folder for dataview query? Thanks a lot Bryan!

[@BryanJenks]

i'll be making a video on supercharged links shortly!

[@treytrey5790]

Hey I am just wondering, how big is your graph?

[@BryanJenks]

like file count? it can fluctuate wildly sometimes, its around 4,100 right now

[@treytrey5790]

@@BryanJenks No I mean the actual ssd space.

[@scelester]

is the navigation folder ( highlights and bg color ) from theme or custom css?

[@BryanJenks]

custom css in my theme file

[@TheTintinjb]

One question, I am using your input paper template but all my highlights are yellow (not red, orange, green, etc). Is there something else I should install for it to work?

[@BryanJenks]

Are you using my css theme? The highlighter colors are defined there

[@TheTintinjb]

@@BryanJenks Thank you for your reply I just went through your more recent video and after setting up the additional community plugins it works.,

[@europa7533]

thanks for the video, appreciated

[@BryanJenks]

Glad you liked it!

[@timbushell8640]

O and Zot... seems to be a winning combo. : ))))))

[@timbushell8640]

Welcome back, and congrats on the promo.

[@timbushell8640]

The rolling up in the D, W and M to the Annual is a good use of some minimal coding too.

[@BryanJenks]

they really are

[@mack6807]

I checked the latest starter vault (Sept 15 2023) but the KZbin input template doesn't include the metadata scraper code 😮

[@BryanJenks]

i need to update it, soon!

[@sethhulin271]

@@BryanJenks Can I get a link? I just happened to stumble upon your channel (great content) and have a major use case for a tool like this youtube scraper. By major I mean "have been looking for over a month" lol.

[@matthiasnott]

db folder is interesting. can you share the actual code?

[@BryanJenks]

I do in my template vault

[@matthiasnott]

@@BryanJenks You mean, LYT? Must have missed it.

[@BryanJenks]

No I have nothing to do with LYT. I have a template vault I’ve given away for 2 years for signing up to my newsletter, for live updates to it, exclusive guides and documentation, and direct support from me as well I have a different copy for GitHub sponsors only

[@matthiasnott]

How can I get to it?

[@BryanJenks]

Link in description

[@MarkieAurelius]

Heyyy your 6'6, I am too, tall gang!!

[@BryanJenks]

Woop woop!

[@TickleMeTimbers]

Hey hope you're doing alright you look a bit puffier in the face... wonder if you recently changed medication something tells me to do some investigation on possible side-effects it could be affecting your whole system anyway I know its weird to talk about here but you are important

[@BryanJenks]

Lol it’s just the caloric intake