Cool Obsidian plugins

#obsidian

Obsidian plugins I'm relying on for an extended period of time.

Must-haves

Plugins anyone could benefit from.

Advanced Tables → Makes writing tables in Markdown a little less painful. Not painless, just less painful.
Dataview → Use your notes as data. Create lists and tables, filter through your vault, and so much more. If you're going to install one third-party plugin, this one should be it.
- Also pay attention to Datacore, a work-in-progress successor of Dataview aiming for a friendlier, more native-like interface.
LanguageTool → Integrates with languagetool.org, which is similar to Grammarly. Grammarly plans to shut down their API in Jan 2024, so this is your best choice on the longer run.
Style Settings → Gives you more control over the interface. A lot of themes rely on it for changing colour schemes and other theme-related settings.

Some plugins I use to really customize my experience.

Advanced URI → Allows control over pretty much everything inside Obsidian outside of Obsidian. Useful for integrating with other tools you already use, like a custom app launcher.
DataLoom → The closest thing to Notion-like tables.
Digital Garden → An alternative to Obsidian Publish that I use to make this website. See obsidian-digital-garden.
QuickAdd → A very powerful plugin that allows me to create custom Obsidian commands. It is very difficult to describe its powers in a couple of sentences, so I'd suggest checking some of the examples on its website.
Templater → Similar to the official Templates plugin, but a bit more dynamic. Allows your templates to manipulate variables, functions, and interact with APIs using JavaScript.

Plugins that seem really cool, but they don't really fit my workflow.

Advanced Slides → Use reveal.js to create presentations. There's at least one YouTube channel with over 100k subscribers that uses this plugin to make their videos.
Day Planner → I don't like micromanaging my tasks throughout the day with notes of very little value afterwards, but if I were into that, I'd give it a try.
Excalidraw → If you're the type of person that likes to make sketches in your notes.
Kanban → I much prefer a vertically scrollable list than a horizontally scrollable one, but if you're the opposite of me, give this one a try.

Lists made by other people that you might find useful.

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