- What is Obsidian?
- Resources
- Plugins
- External Tools
- Templates
- Handy tools
- CSS Snippets
- Themes
- For Developers
- Official Obsidian Website
- Reviews, Pros and Cons of Obsidian at Slant.co
- Obsidian at Markdown Guide
- Obsidian Beginner Guide at SitePoint
- Obsidian Official Roadmap
- Obsidian Help: a open-source Obsidian's official help vault.
- Obsidian Roundup: a weekly roundup of Obsidian.md tips, news & resources via Eleanor Konik.
- Obsidian Garden: a open-source guide to creating your own 🌳 Digital Garden with Obsidian.
- Official Getting Started Guide (may be a little outdated)
- 🎬 Obsidian Office Hours
- 🎬 Obsidian Community Talks
- 🎬 Linking Your Thinking (Nick Milo)
- 🎬 Bryan Jenks
- 🎬 Productivity Guru
- 🎬 Santi Younger
- 🎬 Effective Remote Work
- 🇨🇳 AllinBon: a Chinese alternative to Obsidian Roundup
| Name | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Obsidian Day Planner | Plugin for day planning and managing pomodoro timers from a task list | lynchjames |
| Flashcards | Simple and intuitive integration for Anki | reuseman |
| Name | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Notion to Obsidian converter | Simple script to convert exported Notion notes to Obsidian. | Conner Tennery |
| Yarle - Yet Another Rope Ladder from Evernote | Node.js app to convert exported Evernote notes to Markdown (Obsidian) | Akos Balasko |
| keep-it-markdown | Convert Google Keep notes dynamically to markdown for Obsidian and Notion using the unofficial Keep API. | Don Sudduth |
| gooseberry | A command line utility to generate a knowledge base from Hypothesis annotations. | out-of-cheese-error |
| BibleGateway to Obsidian | Fetch the text from Bible Gateway and save it as formatted markdown file. Each chapter is saved as one file and navigation between files as well as a book-file is automatically created. All of the chapter files of a book are saved in its numbered folder. | selfire1 |
| DayOne JSON to MD | Simple app that converts jsons (packed with media files into zip) exports from Day One to Markdown. | Kirill Kleymenov |
| Annotation tools | connecting hypothesis and obsidian.md | Nicolas Collignon |
| A thousand notes | Scripts for cleaning, validating and maintaining the markdown notes exported from Evernote. | Davide Della Casa |
| PKMigrator | Tools to migrate between various Personal Knowledge Management Utilities, including Remnote, Obsidian, Roam and Org-roam. | Anwesh Gangula |
| Goodsidian | Goodsidian takes updates to your shelves on Goodreads and formats them to a note in Obsidian. | selfire1 |
| Name | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Markdownload | A Firefox and Google Chrome extension to clip websites and download them into a readable markdown file. | deathau |
| Copy Selection as Markdown | Firefox add-on to copy a selection or link as formatted Markdown | 0x6b |
| Obsidian Clipper | An unofficial Obsidian clipper for Chrome, that allows you to easily clip a selection to a note in Obsidian | Joost Plattel |
| Obsidian Bookmark | A Chrome extension and nodejs server to allow web clipping to Obsidian. | Liamballin |
| Name | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Oboe - Obsidian to HTML converter | Command line tool that converts an Obsidian vault into a vault of HTML files. Useful for publishing a vault as a static website. | kmaasrud |
| publish | An open-source Obsidian Publish alternative | obsidian-userland |
| quartz | Host your own second brain and digital garden | jackyzha0 |
| obyde | A minimal tool to convert a "standardly" configured Obsidian vault to a Jekyll or Hugo blog. | Khaled M. Nassar |
| writeup-converter | Script for grabbing markdown files and Obsidian attachments from one folder and copying them to another. Also contains a 'website formatter' that uses regex to parse markdown headers and links and reformat them to create Jekyll-friendly links and contents tables. | Mac Goodwin |
| pelican-obsidian | Makes it possible to bridge work in obsidian to pelican seamlessly. | Jonathan Sundqvist |
| Name | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Obsidian For Business | A combination of a template vault with initial structure and some Microsoft Office VBA Macros to facilitate a powerful, extensible, and flexible plain text workflow using Microsoft Office and Obsidian For Business. | Bryan Jenks |
| Sourcegraph knowledge bases extension | Browse Markdown knowledge bases (e.g. Obsidian vaults or Foam repositories) in Sourcegraph. | Robert Lin |
| Name | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Obsidian Starter Templates | A set of Markdown templates for common Obsidian use cases | masonlr, sharpevo and mtomas7 |
Small tweaks to add to your vault/.obsidian/snippets folder.
- Collapsing Sidebar
- Bullet Point Relationship Lines
- Auto-fading UI
- Smaller Scrollbar
- Subtler Folding Gutter Arrows
- Hyphenation and Justification
- Enlarge Image on Hover
- Nicer Checkboxes
- Stylish Block Quotes
- Bigger Link Popup Preview
- Custom Icons Differing Files and Folders
- Custom Icons for Specific Folders
- Tag Pills
- Custom Icons for Frontmatter Tags
- Outliner For The Outline and File Explorer
- Better Bullet Points in Edit Mode
- Image Cards
Not enough? There are many other places related to snippets:
by @Kmaasrud
by @deathau
Relationship lines that shows hierarchy, like in code editors.
📁 bullet-point-relationship-lines.css
Fades note's header controls and status bar items when not hovered.
Increases the size of the folding gutter arrows and decreases their opacity until hovered.
📁 subtler-folding-gutter-arrows.css
by @Boyd
Justifies the whole text and breaks words into two lines if needed.
📁 hyphenation-and-justification.css
by @den
by @kepano & @rsdimitrov
To toggle a checkbox, place your cursor right after it, press left arrow once and then press backspace.
by @Thery
by @Cannibalox & @konhi
📁 bigger-link-popup-preview.css
by @deathau
Adds custom icons for files and folders. Please read the comments in the .css file.
📁 custom-icons-differing-files-and-folders.css
by @ScottKillen
Adds custom icons to specific folders.
📁 custom-icons-for-specific-folders.css
by @uzerper
by @ScottKillen
Adds custom icons to specific tags in the frontmatter section. Compatible with Tag Pills and most themes, including minimal.
📁 custom-icons-for-frontmatter-tags.css
📁 outliner-for-the-outline-and-file-explorer.css
📁 better-bullet-points-in-edit-mode.css
by @TClark1011
Give your images a shadow and rounded corners.
Most themes should be available through the Community Themes pane in Obsidian's settings. If not, enable Custom CSS under Plugins, download obsidian.css from the desired repository and place it in the vault root.
| Name | Description | Image | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Official Dracula theme | A dark theme hosted by the official Dracula guys |  |
dracula, andybyers21 and zenorocha |
| 80s Neon | A retro-future 80s inspired theme for Obsidian. |  |
deathau |
| Base2Tone | A theme for Obsidian based on http://base2t.one/ with default hues from http://simurai.com/duotone-dark-sky-syntax/. |  |
deathau |
| OneDark Theme | This theme is based on One Dark Pro and One Dark Pro is based on Atom's default One Dark theme. Currently only supports Dark mode. |  |
pionxzh |
| Dracula | A dark theme for Obsidian. |  |
jarodise |
| Comfort Color Dark Theme | A dark theme for Obsidian. |  |
obsidian-ezs |
| Gruvbox Theme | This is a gruvbox theme for Obsidian. It supports both light and dark modes. |  |
insanum |
| Gastown | A light theme for Obsidian. |  |
dogwaddle |
| Ursa | A light and dark theme for Obsidian featuring "zen mode" with collapsing side panels and improved single pane viewing. |  |
obsidian-ezs |
| Obsidian Solarized | This is just a recolor based on the solarized color scheme. |  |
Slowbad |
| Red Graphite | A light theme for Obsidian, based on Bear.app's Red Graphite theme. |  |
seanwcom |
| Obsidian + Nord | A Nord-based theme for Obsidian, only supporting dark mode |  |
insanum |
| Illusion Theme | A light theme for Obsidian. The theme is comfortable to the eye everything is a bit bigger and contrasted, combining dark & light themes gave it a unique touch. |  |
Zaher Al Majed |
| Horizon | Dark theme for Obsidian, inspired by the similarly named theme for VSCode. Compatible with Obsidian Desktop, Mobile, and Publish. |  |
Tyler Nguyen |
| Behave dark | A port of the eye friendly Behave theme by Christian Petersen, available for VSCode, FreeCAD, KiCAD, and now Obsidian! |
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Chrismettal |
| Minimal | An opinionated Obsidian theme and plugin designed to create the most natural and distraction-free environment for thinking. |  |
kepano |
- #custom-css at Obsidian Forum
- 🎬 Create a Custom Theme in Obsidian
- ReggieNotes' about Obsidian CSS Themes
- obsidian-style-settings: allows snippet, theme, and plugin CSS files to define a set of configuration options. It then allows users to see all the tweakable settings in one settings pane.
- Developers & API at Obsidian Forum
- Obsidian at GitHub
- obsidian-tools: an unofficial collection of tools that helps devs build plugins for obsidian.
- obsidian-rust-plugin: boilerplate needed to write obsidian plugins in rust!
- obsidian-api-docs: community-provided documentation of the Obsidian API.
- obsidian-dev-tools: allows for a modified console (useful for debugging on mobile), and viewing all Obsidian icons/strings.
- obsidian-daily-notes-interface: a collection of utility functions for working with dates and daily notes in Obsidian plugins.
- obsidian-calendar-ui: provides an out-of-the-box calendar view for Obsidian plugins.
- obsidian-plugin-template: a plugin template customized with a nicer directory structure and some additional tool (like featuring automatic releases with Github's Actions).
- obsidian-vault-parser: vault parser for the Obsidian note taking app.
- Liam Cain's Obsidian API FAQ
- #obsidian-md at GitHub
- Svelte (sometimes used by plugin developers to create components)
- What tools and libraries are used in Obsidian?