The Homepage plugin allows users to set a specific note, canvas, or workspace to open automatically when launching Obsidian. Users can configure how previously opened tabs are handled—keeping them, replacing the last note, or closing them all. The plugin supports opening the homepage in various views, such as Reading, Source, or Live Preview, and can revert to the default view when navigating to another note. Additionally, users can trigger Obsidian commands upon opening the homepage, enabling seamless integration with other plugins like Dataview to create dynamic landing pages.
The Hider plugin is a versatile tool that allows you to customize the Obsidian interface by hiding various UI elements. With this plugin, you can eliminate distractions and tailor your workflow to suit your needs. Hide the app ribbon, tab bar, or status bar to declutter your screen, or remove the vault name, scrollbars, and other visual cues to focus on your content. You can even hide search suggestions, tooltips, instructions in prompts, and metadata in Reading view. The plugin is easy to use and allows you to bind hotkeys to toggle these features on and off as needed.
The Full Screen Toggle plugin provides a seamless way to maximize display space while reading notes in Obsidian, especially on mobile devices. It allows users to switch to fullscreen mode with customizable shortcuts, such as double or triple taps, or by using commands or hotkeys. The plugin is particularly useful for minimizing distractions and enhancing focus during note reading or editing. Users can also adjust settings to prevent accidental activations, tailoring the experience to their workflow preferences.
The Status Bar Organizer plugin allows users to customize and manage the elements displayed on the Obsidian status bar. Users can reorder status bar items using a drag-and-drop interface and control visibility with toggle options. The plugin supports creating and managing multiple presets for different setups, including specific configurations for fullscreen and windowed modes. Presets can be renamed, deleted, and quickly switched using hotkeys. Additionally, the plugin retains positions for status bar items from deleted plugins, ensuring seamless organization. These features help users tailor their workspace to their preferences for improved usability and efficiency.
The CSS Editor plugin provides a convenient way to manage and edit CSS snippets directly within Obsidian. It allows users to create, edit, delete, and toggle the activation state of CSS files located in the `.obsidian/snippets/` directory. With features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, and basic VIM support, it ensures a smooth editing experience on both desktop and mobile. The plugin also includes a quick switcher for efficient snippet management and supports seamless integration with Obsidian's workflow.
The Shrink pinned tabs plugin enhances the Obsidian user interface by allowing users to reduce the size of pinned tabs, improving workspace organization and visibility. Users can configure the display settings to show or hide tab titles for a cleaner and more compact appearance. This plugin is particularly useful for those managing multiple tabs and seeking a streamlined workflow without sacrificing functionality.
The Vertical Tabs View plugin adds a customizable vertical tab interface to Obsidian, allowing users to manage and sort tabs in a vertical layout. This view is ideal for users who prefer a vertical arrangement of tabs for better visibility and organization. While tabs are sortable within this layout, the changes do not sync with the original tab order. The plugin also includes commands to cycle through tabs efficiently. It enhances usability for both desktop and mobile users, offering an alternative interface for streamlined navigation.
The Emoji Magic plugin enhances the Obsidian note-taking experience by providing a powerful emoji search and insertion tool. It features an extensive dictionary of keywords for emojis, allowing users to find the perfect emoji quickly with terms like colors or concepts. The plugin operates locally, ensuring data privacy, and offers a seamless, keyboard-friendly interface. Emojis can be inserted directly as text characters, preserving consistency across platforms. With fast performance and customizable settings, this plugin is ideal for users who want to add expressive elements to their notes effortlessly.
The Background Image plugin allows users to customize the editor view in Obsidian by adding a personalized background image. It supports remote image hosting and offers settings to adjust features like background blur and contrast of the input area. The plugin enhances the visual appeal of the editing environment, making it possible to use static or animated images as backgrounds for a more tailored and aesthetic experience.
The Iconic plugin allows users to customize icons across various elements in Obsidian, offering seamless integration with the app's vanilla design. It provides access to over 1,300 icons and 1,900+ emojis that can be applied to tabs, files, folders, bookmarks, ribbon commands, properties, and more. Users can easily change icons with a secondary click and personalize them with theme-responsive colors or custom RGB selections. The plugin supports multiple languages and integrates smoothly with different Obsidian themes, adapting dynamically to theme changes. Designed for accessibility and aesthetic enhancement, Iconic empowers users to create a visually tailored workspace.
The Editor Width Slider plugin enhances Obsidian by providing a slider in the status bar to adjust the editor's line width in real-time. Users can customize their editing experience by increasing or decreasing the line width globally or for individual files using the YAML frontmatter. This flexibility allows for a tailored workspace, accommodating different note styles and screen sizes. With its intuitive interface and file-specific customization options, the plugin supports a highly personalized note-taking environment.
The Node Auto Resize plugin enhances the Obsidian canvas by automatically resizing nodes to fit their content. As users update a node's content in the canvas view, the plugin adjusts the node dimensions dynamically, ensuring a clean and organized layout. It includes settings to enable width auto-resizing and to define a maximum width for nodes, giving users control over the visualization appearance. This feature is especially useful for maintaining clarity and structure in canvas-based workflows.
The Tokei plugin introduces a customizable clock feature to Obsidian, allowing users to view and manage timezones directly within their workspace. It provides options to personalize the clock's layout and appearance using custom CSS snippets. Users can add multiple timezones by entering names or offsets in UTC format, with support for fractional offsets like +5.5. The plugin also includes an alternative style snippet for experimentation. Tokei's drag-and-drop functionality enables users to position the clock conveniently within their setup, enhancing productivity by keeping track of global times.
The Beautitab plugin for Obsidian allows users to customize their new tab view with visually appealing backgrounds, dynamic elements, and personalized content. Features include a rotating background, time display, customizable greeting, recent files list, and a random quote section. The plugin also offers inline search and a customizable bookmarks list. Users can adjust the visibility and behavior of these elements, and choose from built-in or custom backgrounds. The plugin supports themes for different seasons and holidays, providing a fresh visual experience. Beautitab is highly customizable, making it a perfect way to personalize your Obsidian workspace with engaging, dynamic content.
The Zen Mode plugin transforms Obsidian into a distraction-free environment, perfect for reading, presentations, or focused writing. By hiding most of the UI elements, it maximizes the space available for your content, whether on mobile or desktop. Zen Mode ensures a clean, minimalist interface, leaving only the essential view of your document. On mobile, it significantly improves PDF viewing, utilizing nearly the entire screen, while on desktop, it provides a quick toggle between editing and viewing modes. This plugin also integrates seamlessly with themes through its `zenmode-active` class, enhancing compatibility for a truly immersive experience.
The Auto Hide Cursor plugin enhances focus and readability in Obsidian by automatically hiding the cursor after scrolling or after a set delay. The cursor reappears immediately when the mouse is moved, offering a cleaner and distraction-free workspace. It is particularly useful when paired with focus-oriented plugins, providing a more immersive writing or reading experience. Users can customize the timing and behavior of the cursor hiding feature through the plugin's settings, tailoring it to their preferences.
The Hide Commands in Menu plugin allows users to declutter Obsidian’s interface by selectively hiding commands across various menus. It enables users to remove unwanted commands from context menus, including those from community plugins, and automatically eliminates redundant dividers when commands are hidden. Advanced users can apply regex pattern matching for more granular control. Additionally, the plugin injects custom CSS classes, providing options for further styling and customization.
The Context Command Hider plugin allows users to customize their right-click menu in Obsidian by hiding unwanted commands, including those from community plugins. Commands can be hidden by name or using regex patterns, and changes take effect immediately without requiring a restart. This applies across all context menus, such as the file explorer and note menu, ensuring a cleaner and more focused interface. Users can also apply custom styling to hidden commands if needed. The plugin enhances menu management by reducing clutter and improving workflow efficiency.
The Icon Shortcodes plugin allows users to quickly insert emoji and custom icons into their Obsidian notes using intuitive shortcodes. It supports popular icon libraries like Unicode Emoji, Lucide, Font Awesome, and Remixicon, along with user-uploaded custom icons in formats such as PNG, JPG, SVG, and GIF. Icons can be inserted via a simple search-based suggester, with optional fuzzy search for better discovery. Users can manage their custom icon collections, rename, delete, or back up icon packs as needed. Custom CSS can be used to style icons, enabling changes to color, size, and appearance. The plugin also features an API, allowing developers to integrate its functionality into other plugins.
The Color cycler plugin allows users to dynamically cycle through colors for their Obsidian workspace, enhancing the visual appeal and creating a vibrant, engaging interface. Ideal for users who want a more dynamic aesthetic, this plugin offers customizable cycling options to suit individual preferences.
The Font Size Adjuster plugin allows users to easily modify the editor font size in Obsidian using hotkeys or the command palette. Unlike Obsidian’s built-in zoom functions, which affect all UI elements, this plugin specifically adjusts only the font size in the editor. This feature enables users to quickly customize their reading or writing experience without navigating through appearance settings. It is ideal for users who frequently adjust font sizes for better readability or focus.
The Obsidian Stylist plugin allows users to apply custom classes and styles to markdown notes, enhancing their visual appeal and functionality. This plugin supports the addition of CSS styles to specific elements within a note, such as headings or lists, enabling customizations like underlining text or creating multi-column layouts. Users can add style tags directly into their markdown files, making it easy to personalize the appearance of content. However, the plugin does not work in Live Preview mode. It processes styles carefully to avoid interfering with the rest of the Obsidian interface, providing flexibility for tailored note designs.
The Command Palette-- plugin provides a cleaner and more streamlined command palette experience in Obsidian. By allowing users to hide unwanted commands, it simplifies navigation and improves focus within the command palette. Users can specify which commands to exclude in the settings and access the customized palette using a dedicated command. This tool is ideal for those who prefer a more organized and decluttered workspace.
The Ninja Cursor plugin enhances cursor visibility within Obsidian, providing an improved editing experience by making the cursor easier to track and locate. Inspired by the unique design elements of Neovide, this plugin adds a visually dynamic feature to assist users who frequently work on long or dense notes. It focuses on aesthetic and functional improvements without altering core Obsidian behaviors.
The Theme Controller plugin provides flexible theme management for Obsidian, allowing users to dynamically switch between light and dark modes, as well as apply custom themes based on the active note’s path or specific tags. It offers a color switcher that allows toggling between themes easily, and the ability to set default themes when no specific settings are applied. The plugin enhances customization by enabling users to create a personalized Obsidian environment tailored to individual workflows or content types, with themes that automatically adjust based on context.
The Blur plugin for Obsidian allows users to obfuscate text with customizable effects. It offers three methods—blur, brick, and bone—for creating visually distinct styles that conceal or highlight specific text blocks. The plugin supports inline and block formats, giving users flexibility in how they apply these effects. Users can further personalize the appearance with custom CSS, including hover reveals and adjustments to blur strength, colors, and border-radius. This tool is particularly useful for redacting, wireframing, or temporarily hiding content in notes while maintaining an organized workspace.
The Tag Formatter plugin provides customizable options to change the display of tags in Obsidian's preview mode. It offers several features for improving tag visibility, such as hiding the '#' symbol on tags, concealing parent tags in nested structures, and even hiding specific portions of tags based on defined patterns. Users can further personalize their tag presentation by applying CSS classes to individual tags or based on their parent tags. These customization options allow users to streamline the appearance of their notes and make tag management more efficient.
The File Explorer Markdown Titles plugin enhances Obsidian’s file explorer by displaying the first markdown header from each note alongside its filename in the sidebar. This provides quick visibility into the content of notes without opening them. Additionally, it updates the graph view to replace note titles with their markdown headers, offering a more informative and content-focused visualization of your notes. The plugin operates seamlessly without requiring configuration, making it a simple and effective tool for better navigation and overview of your vault.
The Auto Reading Mode plugin enhances the Obsidian experience by automatically switching Markdown pages from editing modes (Live Preview or Source) to Reading view after a specified period of inactivity. This functionality ensures a cleaner and more organized interface when revisiting or minimizing Obsidian. Users can configure the timeout duration and choose to display previously opened documents in Reading view upon starting the application, providing a seamless and distraction-free reading experience.
The Fontsource plugin allows users to import custom fonts into Obsidian from Fontsource, providing more flexibility and style customization for their notes and workspace. By integrating Fontsource's library, this plugin enables users to easily use various web fonts in Obsidian, helping to enhance the visual appeal and readability of their notes. Ideal for users who want a personalized aesthetic, it supports seamless font integration without complex setup, giving more control over the appearance of the Obsidian interface.
The Canvas Card Background Remover plugin allows users to make card backgrounds in Obsidian's Canvas transparent for specific embed types, including images, canvases, and markdown. This enhances the visual clarity and customization of embedded cards within canvas documents. Users can configure which card types are affected and adjust settings related to card display for a cleaner and more streamlined canvas appearance.
The Additional Icons plugin enhances the visual customization of Obsidian by introducing a variety of additional icons from popular libraries like RPG Awesome, GovIcons, and Weather Icons. These icons can be used wherever Obsidian supports icon customization, allowing users to add unique visual elements to files, metadata fields, and other interface components. The plugin supports toggling individual icon sets to suit user preferences, making it a versatile tool for those seeking to personalize their workspace with more diverse iconography.
The Close Window When Empty plugin enhances the Obsidian user experience by automatically closing the application window when the last note is closed, mimicking the behavior of web browsers. On macOS, the application continues to run in the background, while on Windows and Linux, it quits entirely. This plugin provides a streamlined and intuitive workflow for users who prefer browser-like tab management in their note-taking environment.
The Backgroundset plugin allows users to customize their Obsidian workspace by setting images as backgrounds. It supports adding a folder of images, selecting a specific background, or enabling random background rotation. Users can also apply smooth fade-in and fade-out effects for seamless transitions between backgrounds.
The Explorer Colors plugin allows users to customize the appearance of files and folders in Obsidian’s Explorer by assigning individual colors. Users can right-click on any item to set a color, which can also cascade down to child items unless manually overridden. This enhances visual organization, making it easier to differentiate between notes and directories at a glance. Unlike CSS-based solutions, this plugin offers a more flexible and persistent way to manage colors without the need for manual updates when adding new files.