Version 2 — full rewrite. Library is now a dedicated tab (ribbon icon), with in-app search across multiple sources (OMDb, Open Library), per-category folders, manual categories for anything, and graph links stored in frontmatter. See Quick Start.

✨ Key Features

🖼️ Visual Card Grid — A dedicated Library tab renders your collection as a gallery of cover-art cards.
🔎 Built-in Search — Search and add titles right inside the app: OMDb for movies and series, Open Library for books.
📺 Smart Series Tracking — Seasons and episode totals are fetched automatically and kept in sync.
📊 Progress Indicators — Visual progress bars on cards and note headers show how much you've watched or read.
📑 Rich Note Headers — Every content note gets an auto-generated header with all key metadata.
🛠️ Custom Categories — Create categories for Movies, Series, Books, or anything else via the manual source.
🕸️ Graph Links — A Related frontmatter property links every note to its category, genres, and creators, kept in sync automatically for a beautiful graph.
🔀 Sorting & Collapsing — Sort cards by name, year, rating, or date; collapse any category.
🌍 Multilingual — Native support for English, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew.

🚀 Quick Start

1. Installation

Install Library from the Obsidian Community Plugins directory (Settings → Community plugins → Browse → search “Library”), or install it manually via the GitHub Releases.

2. Basic Setup

Go to Settings → Library.
Add your Categories — each has a name (e.g. 🎬 Movies), a Type value (e.g. Movie), a source (OMDb, Open Library, or Manual), and an optional folder.
(Optional) Enter your OMDb API key to enable movie and series search.

3. Add a Card by Title

No more filling in frontmatter by hand — add a movie, series, or book just by searching its name:

Open the Library tab from the ribbon icon (or run Open Library).
Click the ＋ button in the top-right of the Library page (or run Add content).
Pick a category, type the title into the search box, and select a result.
A card is created instantly, with poster, year, genre, creators, and rating filled in automatically.

The 🔍 button next to ＋ searches titles already in your library.

For Manual categories you just type a title and fill in the cover, year, and other fields yourself.

🔌 Sources

Each category is bound to a source that powers its search:

Source	Content types	API key
OMDb	Movies, Series	Free key required — omdbapi.com
Open Library	Books	None
Manual	Anything else	None — you type the title and fill fields yourself

🔒 Privacy & Network Use

Library is offline-first. The plugin only contacts the network when you actively search for a title to add, and only with the search terms you type:

Service	When	What is sent	Why
`www.omdbapi.com`	You search an OMDb-backed category	The title you type and your OMDb API key	Fetch movie/series metadata (year, genre, cast, rating, poster, episode counts)
`openlibrary.org`	You search an Open Library category	The title you type	Fetch book metadata (author, year, subjects, cover id)
`covers.openlibrary.org`	A book card has a cover	The Open Library cover id	Load the cover image

No other data ever leaves your vault. The plugin has no telemetry, no analytics, and no self-update mechanism. The OMDb API key you enter is stored only in your local plugin settings and is sent solely to www.omdbapi.com. Movie and series cover images load directly from the poster URLs returned by OMDb.

📝 Frontmatter Schema

The plugin reads and writes to standard YAML frontmatter. Notes are created for you, but every field is editable. Source and Source ID let the plugin refresh metadata later.

Movie

---
Type: Movie
Name: Inception
Year: 2010
Genre:
    - Action
    - Sci-Fi
Creator:
    - Christopher Nolan
Rating IMDB: 8.8
My Rating: 9
Cover: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/...
URL: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/
Progress: 1/1
Complete: true
Date: 01.03.2026
Source: omdb
Source ID: tt1375666
---

Series

---
Type: Series
Name: Stranger Things
Year: 2016
End Year: 2025
Season: 5
Genre:
    - Drama
    - Fantasy
    - Horror
Creator:
    - The Duffer Brothers
Rating IMDB: 8.7
My Rating: 9
Cover: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/...
URL: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/
Progress: 25/42
Complete: false
Date: 01.03.2026
Source: omdb
Source ID: tt4574334
---

📺 Series auto-update: Run Refresh metadata for current note (or just open the note) and the plugin updates the total episode count in Progress (e.g., 25/42 → 25/50) and the Season count, while keeping your watched count intact.

Book

---
Type: Book
Name: Dune
Year: 1965
Genre:
    - Science Fiction
Creator:
    - Frank Herbert
Cover: https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/...-L.jpg
ISBN: 9780441013593
My Rating: 9
Progress: 412/688
Complete: false
Date: 01.03.2026
Source: openlibrary
Source ID: /works/OL893415W
---

🕸️ Graph Links

Each content note gets a Related frontmatter property, kept up to date automatically — the note body is never touched:

Related:
    - "[[Movie]]"
    - "[[Action]]"
    - "[[Sci-Fi]]"
    - "[[Christopher Nolan]]"

These links connect your notes through shared categories, genres, and creators, so the Obsidian graph view forms clean clusters. A real hub note is created per category (e.g. Movie) so clusters show even with unresolved links hidden. The property is written when a note is created and refreshed whenever its metadata changes — run Rebuild graph links only if you want to force a full rebuild.

🛠 Commands

Command	Description
`Open Library`	Open the Library gallery tab.
`Add content`	Search a source and create a content note (or type a title for Manual).
`Search your library`	Fuzzy-search and open any note already in your library.
`Refresh metadata for current note`	Re-fetch metadata for the active note; updates series episode totals.
`Rebuild graph links`	Wire every content note to its category, genres, and creators.

🤝 Contributing & Support

🐛 Found a bug? Open an Issue.
💡 Have a feature idea? Start a Discussion.
⭐ Love the plugin? Consider starring the repository to show your support!

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