Rememo

Rememo

Capture fleeting thoughts straight into your daily notes. Every memo is a card block in your own note files — no private database.

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Rememo is a memo plugin for Obsidian: a heavily rewritten fork of Obsidian-Memos. All memos live inside your daily notes — plain Markdown, readable and editable at any time, yours to keep.

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Features

• Native-feeling editor — built on Obsidian's own editor kernel: typing, IME, undo, live rendering of ==highlights==, #tag and [[wikilink]] autocomplete. Press Enter or Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to send.
• Card feed — memos from your daily notes rendered as a paginated card list; filter by text, tag, saved query or date; heat map and tag tree in the sidebar.
• Task cards — start a line with - [ ] to create a task; tick the checkbox on the card to complete it. A two-segment slider next to the send button switches between plain memos and tasks — and follows the card's type when you edit it.
• Tags — tag chips gathered at the bottom of the card, or kept inline where they appear (a setting); click any tag to filter.
• Recycle bin — deleting is a soft delete: the card stays in your note with a deletedAt marker, and can be restored or permanently removed from the recycle bin; optional auto-clean purges entries older than the retention period.
• Send sound — an optional card-deal “whoosh” when a memo is sent: choose the built-in sound or your own audio file, with a volume slider.
• Share as image — export a single card or a whole day as an image (configurable footer and background).
• Data health check — a built-in audit that repairs anomalies and migrates the old single-line format into card blocks, with automatic backups.
• Mobile support — works on phones and tablets; accepts text and files via “Insert as memo”.

Installation

From the community plugin directory — search for “Rememo” in Settings → Community plugins → Browse.

Manually — copy main.js, styles.css and manifest.json into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/rememo/, then enable Rememo in Settings → Community plugins.

Requires Obsidian 1.7.2 or newer.

Coming from the Memos plugin? Read this first

Your memos are safe. Rememo reads the memos that are already inside your daily notes — it never moves, rewrites or deletes anything on its own.

One thing to know: memos written by the old Memos plugin use an older line format, and Rememo only renders the new card-block format. So right after you install, your existing memos won't appear in the feed yet — they are still sitting in your files, untouched.

To bring them back, run the built-in migration:

1. When legacy memos are detected, a banner appears at the top of the feed — click Open data health check on it. (You can also open it from Rememo's settings → Data tools → Audit data.)
2. The audit scans your daily notes and lists every file containing old-format lines.
3. Use the migrate button next to a file — or the migrate-all button to convert them in one go.
4. Before writing anything, a copy of each file is saved to .rememo-backup/, so you can always restore by hand.

What the migration does — and only inside the section under your memo heading:

• Old single-line memos become card blocks (a heading line + an indented body).
• Old indented comment threads become reference cards, matching Rememo's comment ≡ reference model.
• The rest of the note is left alone.

Your existing settings keep working: the Memo heading defaults to ## Memo, the same heading the old plugin wrote to.

Quick start

1. Enable the core Daily notes plugin — Rememo reads and writes your daily notes.
2. Open Rememo's settings and confirm “Memo heading” matches your daily-note template (## Memo by default). New memos are written under this heading; if the file doesn't have it yet, Rememo creates it.
3. Click the Rememo icon in the ribbon (or run the Open Memos command from the command palette).
4. Type a thought and send it — open today's daily note and you'll find it as a card block.

What your notes look like

## Memo

- 14:32:15 ^a1b2c3
    Plain text with **bold**, `code`, #tag, [[wikilink]] or ![[image]] —
    blank lines start new paragraphs, full Markdown works

- [x] 14:40:00 ^d4e5f6
    A task card — ticking the box writes back to the heading line

- 14:45:00 deletedAt: 2026-09-05 14:45:00 ^g7h8i9
    A deleted card — still in place, restorable from the recycle bin

A card block is a heading line - [ ]? HH:mm:ss [deletedAt: …] ^id with the body indented by 4 spaces below it; the ^id is maintained by Obsidian itself. The old single-line format (body on the heading line) is no longer rendered — use Data health check → migrate whole file to convert it (backups are made automatically).

Settings highlights

• Memo heading — one setting for both reading and writing: Rememo only reads below this heading, and writes new memos at the end of that section (creating the heading if it's missing). Default: ## Memo.
• Send memo by Enter key — off (default): Enter inserts a newline, Ctrl/Cmd+Enter sends. On: reversed.
• Tag position — tags gathered at the card bottom (default) or kept inline in the text.
• Send sound — the built-in card-deal sound, your own audio file, or none; with a volume slider.
• Recycle bin — enable/disable soft delete; auto-clean retention (never / 7 / 30 / 90 / 180 days).
• Heat map — show or hide, week start day.
• Time display format — display only; files always store HH:mm:ss.

Building

pnpm install
pnpm build   # produces main.js + styles.css

Copy the artifacts into your vault's plugin folder and reload the plugin in Obsidian (do a full restart if changes don't show up).

Credits

Built on top of Obsidian-Memos by Boninall (Quorafind), with design inspiration from memos and flomo.

License

MIT