Obsidian Plugin Updates 2025-12-21 to 2025-12-27

The Tag Timer plugin turns plain tags into lightweight time trackers, letting you measure how long you actually spend on specific tasks. Timers live directly inside notes and can be started, paused, resumed, or removed without breaking writing flow. They persist across sessions, so work does not vanish when the app closes or reloads. Over time, the plugin builds daily and weekly analytics that show where your effort goes, presented through clear bar and doughnut charts. Controls are flexible. You decide when timers should stop automatically and where timing markers appear within a line.

The TsumugiMark plugin introduces a vertical writing workspace aimed at authors working on novels, screenplays and Japanese text. It opens the current Markdown file in a dedicated vertical pane, keeping it visually separate from the standard editor while staying fully in sync. Edits flow both ways. Type in either view and the content updates immediately. The plugin supports ruby characters for furigana using a custom inline notation, making it practical for complex kanji heavy writing. A built in character counter tracks total length and selection size directly from the status bar, which helps with manuscript limits and pacing. Visual preferences are flexible, with controls for font family, size, spacing, and how characters are counted.

The Last Edit Location plugin focuses on a simple but high-impact behaviour: reopening a note takes you straight back to where you last edited it. The cursor is restored to the exact line and character and this happens once per note to avoid unexpected jumps. It is designed to handle frequent context switching across many notes without losing your place. To track locations reliably the plugin supports multiple identification strategies - including an auto generated UUID stored in front matter, an existing user defined field or the file's relative path. Folder level controls let users decide where the behaviour applies, and a configurable delay helps align restoration with rendering timing.

The TIPA IPA Support plugin adds native support for TIPA notation, allowing phonetic transcriptions to render correctly as Unicode IPA symbols inside notes. It focuses on users working with linguistics, phonetics or language documentation who prefer LaTeX style input rather than direct Unicode typing. The plugin converts common TIPA commands such as \textipa{}, \tipa{}, \nt{}, and \wt{} into readable phonetic symbols and handles both inline expressions and fenced code blocks. Rendering works consistently in editing and reading modes for code blocks, which helps when reviewing structured linguistic examples. Inline syntax does not appear in live preview, a limitation that is clearly stated and predictable in use.

The Deep Sit plugin connects your notes directly with a Zotero library, making academic writing and research review far more fluid. It lets you bind a note to a specific Zotero collection and insert citations inline using standard pandoc style syntax, supported by an autocomplete selector for speed and accuracy. Alongside writing, the plugin maintains a live reference list in a dedicated side panel, with options to switch between cited references and the full bibliography of the linked collection. Annotations are treated as first class content. You can review highlights across multiple PDFs at once, jump back to the original source in Zotero or copy annotated excerpts with proper references.

The Transcription Audio (Beta) plugin converts linked audio files into structured Markdown content directly within your notes. It automatically detects audio links or embeds in the active note, sends the file to Google Gemini for transcription and summarisation and inserts the generated text exactly where your cursor was placed. A dedicated rightside progress panel shows each step in real time, including file details, request timing and success or error states, so you always know what is happening. The workflow is simple and command driven, designed to keep you focused on writing rather than managing files.