An analysis of the top Obsidian plugins. Make sure to check them out if you’re using Obsidian notes!
Obsidian is a powerful note-taking app that allows users to create and organize notes and ideas into a second brain. One of the great things about Obsidian is the wide range of plugins that are available, which can help users customize and extend the app to meet their specific needs. Exploring all plugins can be time-consuming, so in this post, we’ll take a look at 10 Obsidian plugins that everyone should know about.
Templater is a plugin that allows users to create and use customizable templates when creating new notes in Obsidian. This can be especially helpful for users who need to create notes with a consistent structure and format. For example, you could create a template for meeting notes that includes sections for the date, attendees, agenda, and action items. This ensures that all of your meeting notes follow the same structure, making them easier to read and reference later.
The main difference between the Templater plugin and the built-in functionality of templates is that you can use more robust and powerful statements. Let’s take a look at an example.
Let’s say you want to create a template for a weekly note that will be created on Sunday. The note title should contain data about the year and week number (e.g. 2023-W01 for the first week of 2023). That means we need to use the date from the day after Sunday to get the right week number. Thanks to the Templater plugin, we can do it by inserting:
<% tp.date.now("gggg-[W]ww", 1) %>
You can check out my whole weekly template here:
Periodic Notes is a plugin that helps users create notes on a regular basis, such as daily, weekly, or monthly. This can be useful for creating things like a daily journal or a weekly review. For example, you could use the plugin to generate a new note every day …….