Obsidian plugins with #drawing#

The Excalidraw plugin brings the Excalidraw sketching canvas into your vault and lets you create, edit and organise drawings alongside regular notes. It supports links between drawings and documents, embeds drawings in markdown, and can export synced PNG or SVG copies for use outside the canvas. The plugin also includes templates, markdown transclusion, image handling, LaTeX, block references and a large settings surface for display, filenames, auto export and compatibility behaviour. For heavier workflows it adds ExcalidrawAutomate, a script engine and tools for custom pens, OCR, SVG import and markdown snapshots.

The Ink plugin for Obsidian introduces the ability to integrate handwritten notes and sketches directly into your text, using tools like digital pens or styluses. This feature is especially useful for creating diagrams, math equations, or freeform illustrations between paragraphs, adding a dynamic, personalized touch to your notes. Powered by the tldraw framework, it offers an infinite canvas for seamless creativity. Designed for those who value a blend of handwriting and digital notes, the plugin ensures smooth input and promises future enhancements like pen smoothing and improved formatting for embed longevity, making it a versatile tool for visual thinkers and note-takers alike.

The Tldraw plugin is a unique addition to Obsidian's plugin ecosystem, allowing users to harness the power of Tiny Little Drawing App (Tldraw) within their notes. This plugin enables users to create and edit drawings directly in Obsidian, with the option to switch between Tldraw view and markdown view for added flexibility. The plugin stores each drawing as a regular markdown file, ensuring seamless integration with existing knowledge bases. With customizable options and keyboard shortcuts, users can tailor their experience to suit their needs.

The Tabula Rasa plugin turns sketches into first class vault files with a minimal drawing workspace that sits in the view header instead of adding a separate toolbar. It supports pressure tapered pen and brush strokes, a highlighter, object and pixel erasers, lasso selection with move, scale, rotate and flip actions, and a hold gesture that snaps rough lines, circles, rectangles and triangles into clean shapes. The canvas can be zoomed, panned, rotated, resized and fit to the drawing, with per sketch page colour and a theme aware default pen colour. Sketches autosave as compact `.sketch` files, reopen for further editing, render as live inline previews in notes and export to PNG or SVG only when you ask for an image.

The Excalink plugin suggests and links named frames and groups inside Excalidraw drawings while you type `[[filename#` in the editor. It detects that pattern, opens a fuzzy search picker for every frame and group in the selected drawing, then completes the link using Excalidraw's block reference formats for frames and groups so embeds and navigation work correctly. Unnamed groups still appear in the picker because the plugin uses a text element inside the group as the label, or falls back to a generic Group name when none is found. Its settings let you enable or disable suggestions, choose whether frames or groups appear, sort recent items first, limit the number of suggestions, show file context and rescan the vault when drawings change.

The Just Simple Excalidraw plugin provides a focused Excalidraw editor that reads and writes portable `.excalidraw` JSON files directly in the vault. It creates drawings from the command palette or ribbon, uses the official editor and saves changes automatically after a short pause. Pasted or selected images are embedded into each drawing so the file remains self contained. Autosave stops when the file changes outside the open editor, while malformed drawings are reported without altering the original. The plugin follows the active light or dark theme and makes no runtime network requests. It keeps one editor open per drawing to prevent competing saves, focuses an existing tab when the same file is reopened and closes temporary duplicate panes created by Obsidian's split commands.

The simple-sketch plugin enables users to create basic sketches within Obsidian using an intuitive interface. It provides tools for freehand drawing, creating shapes such as lines, rectangles, and ellipses, and adding text to sketches. Users can save sketches directly to their vault or download them as image files. A ribbon icon gives quick access to the sketching interface, while right-click options allow users to edit image files. The plugin is designed for simplicity and efficiency, making it easy to enhance notes with visual elements.

The MoreDraw for Obsidian plugin integrates a dynamic infinite canvas whiteboard into Obsidian, enabling users to create and edit diagrams such as flowcharts, mind maps, to-do lists, and timetables. With built-in AI capabilities, it simplifies the process of designing visual content. Additional features include a chart maker, QR code generator, and freehand drawing tools. Users can export their work in formats like PDF, PNG, and PPT for broader usability. Some advanced features, such as saving and syncing files, require a MoreDraw account, and certain functionalities may incur a fee.

The HandLayers plugin adds editable handwriting and drawing layers to Markdown and PDF files without changing source content. Apple Pencil or mouse input creates ink while touch remains available for page navigation. Its tools cover pens, highlighters, text, shapes, lasso selection and temporary whiteboards, with controls for moving, resizing, rotating, recolouring and arranging annotations. Layers can be named, reordered, hidden and given individual opacity, and their JSON data stays inside the local vault. PDF workflows support visible annotation merging and ZIP exports containing source files, saved layer SVGs, JSON and a manifest. It also provides non destructive image processing for PDF regions and Markdown images, including colour selection, cleanup, cropping, rotation and perspective correction.