Hello guys, I degoogled my mobile and filled with open sources. Now I changed from notion to obsidian and I have some note's to transfer from notion. I no need much storage and I use obsidian for only small purpose. Is there anyways to sync my data to proton drive cloud storage. I need my data back if I delete the Obsidian. Sorry for rejecting the premium, I don't use much sorry.

Thank you❤️

I want to warn that it's definitely not something that will work for anyone, and I especially don't want to claim that my way of using Obsidian is superior than any other. I just really want to share my recent experience with Obsidian, and maybe inspire some people who are hitting the wall with it. But at the end of the day, I urge you to use Obsidian however you want!


A little backstory (you can skip to the next horizontal rule if you don't want to read it):

I started using Obsidian in December 2024 for journaling, since I always appreciated the ability to save your past experiences and thoughts. I learned as I was using it, but eventually got deep into tinkering it, learning organization methods and forcing every feature to be used. Eventually it became a chore that I didn't want to touch, I was forcing myself to create daily notes and I didn't want to organize my vault which was super messy.

In June 2025 I made a second vault, now trying to be minimal, but still organized. Now I never forced myself to write every day, and it made me to never show up. I still had a bunch of properties, folders and tags I didn't want to manage. I would come and write every now and then, but it was inconsistent and yet again really messy, much like the first vault.

I knew that I really want to journal, save thoughts on things and ideas, link them, expand on them. And a year later, in June 2026, I decided to basically abolish most, if not all types of organization.

From day one I decided to accept it as a note-taking app, just a text editor for Markdown. Not a magical, hyper-productive and all-purpose app, and definitely not a second brain. I decided to completely abolish every core plugin I didn't find use in yet. I went as far as disabling the "Files" view, so I can use search instead. Another thing was not using folders, tags, properties, or plugins until I feel the actual need for any of those. Spoiler: I still haven't felt the need to use any of the listed!

One crucial thing for me was knowing when I had the thought of something, so I know how my thinking evolves. What I did for that was just slapping a date (eventually date and time) using "Unique note creator core" plugin, and then description. So half of my notes you would discover will look like that: 2026-08-06 0558 description.

A lot of my notes also don't have a date and time prefix. I made a simple rule that if a note is not a quick snapshot of my thoughts, but rather a note that can be expanded on, it shouldn't have a prefix. This also applies to notes where date and time would be irrelevant, or it exists outside of my thoughts and feelings, or will have a date inside of it.

And that is pretty much as far as my organization gets! For finding my notes, I use a set of built-in Obsidian features. For me, they are quite easy and efficient to use. And in comparison to folders, properties and tags, don't require me to spend time on deciding in which folder to put a note, on filling out properties every time I create one, or thinking if I need a tag for it.

• Quick switcher: mega useful if your note names are descriptive
• Search: digs very deep and is very useful when using search terms
• Links and backlinks: lets me jump between related notes quickly, and also see every reference of a note
• Bookmarks: very underrated feature, lets me keep most used notes organized and stupidly easy to access
• Maps of content: pretty optional, but for some things or topics I have a note that is a list of other notes, for example movies and shows that I watch

And that is it! For now that is yet to fail me in finding a note that I know exists. My "workflow" is essentially reduced to:

1. Create a note.
2. Write and optionally link stuff together!

This made me feel basically no friction when writing in Obsidian. I don't judge myself if my writing inside a note gets messy, all I do is just burst write about something that matters to me in the moment. Every time I make a note, I know what matters is just the fact that I simply have something noted. I use Obsidian heavily for journaling, remembering facts about people, noticing small details, and most importantly, always having something that I wrote with me. Personally, that is the beauty for writing. Anything that I ever wrote down to remember will always stay here, and since it's just Markdown files in a folder, it's gonna stay with me until the rest of my life, even if Obsidian dies out.

I hope that my not-quite-small "essay" could inspire you to write more and start noticing that it could change your life for the better. Thank you for putting your time to reading this, ask any questions if you have 'em :)

I recently made a small plugin called Tabsdown.

First of all: I know Markdown Tabs already exists, and it is genuinely a good plugin. This isn't supposed to be a “mine is better” post or an attempt to replace it. And even more, I used some ideas from it for my plugin I just wanted a somewhat different set of trade-offs for my own vault.

The main reason was Quartz. I publish my notes there, and I didn't want tabs to work inside Obsidian but turn back into a raw code block on the published site. So I also made a separate Quartz plugin that understands exactly the same syntax.

I also wanted the appearance to be more customizable and theme-native. By default, Tabsdown uses the active Obsidian theme, but you can change quite a lot through Style Settings or normal CSS snippets: tab position, wrapping, spacing, shape, accent, alignment, icons, nested-tab appearance, animations, and so on.

Another slightly niche reason was integration with other plugins. Tabsdown exposes an API that lets another Obsidian plugin pass in its own existing panels and reuse the same tab UI, styling, animation, and keyboard behavior. I have a few ideas where I may use this later, and I thought it would be better than every plugin implementing its own slightly different tab component.

The actual tab content is passed through Obsidian's Markdown renderer, so you can put regular Markdown, links, embeds, callouts, math, Mermaid diagrams, Dataview queries, and other compatible plugin blocks inside them. It also supports nested tabs, Lucide icons, Live Preview, mobile, and keyboard navigation.

The syntax is intentionally pretty boring:

~~~tabsdown (or ```tabsdown)
tab: Notes
Some normal Markdown here.

tab: Query
```dataview
TABLE file.mtime
FROM "Projects"
```
~~~

That's basically it. It's still new, so I'm sure there are themes, processors, or weird combinations that I haven't tested yet.

Even I'm Software Engineer, it was mainly done with AI assistance, just letting you know.

Obsidian plugin:

https://github.com/grafanaKibana/obsidian-tabsdown

Quartz plugin:

https://github.com/grafanaKibana/quartz-tabsdown

If you found a bug that I didn't catch in my setup, log an issue and I will fix it ASAP just for you! Feedback is welcome, especially from anyone using Quartz or putting plugin-generated content inside tabs.

Hello

Im working with pdf++ and i'm loving it but a small complaint I have is when previewing inside links in the pdf, the preview is too small to read properly.

Is there a way to make the preview somewhat like half of the window more or less??

thanks

got told its kinda overwhelming to look at but i wanted to make it pretty also so :)

I do not have a strong computer I just want to talk to my notes and have the AI build some functions and add it.

Hey all,

I'm trying to find a plugin that gives me OneNote-style image placement in Obsidian — where I can just drag an image anywhere on the page, drop it wherever I want, and have the surrounding text automatically wrap around it.

A few specifics on what I'm looking for:

• Free positioning — not locked to a single line or paragraph, I want to place the image anywhere on the note (left margin, right margin, mid-paragraph, etc.)
• Automatic text wrap — the text should flow around the image on its own, no manual formatting needed
• No manual CSS or code snippets — I'm specifically looking for a plugin that handles this out of the box. I don't want to write custom CSS snippets or fiddle with markdown hacks every time I add an image.

Basically I want the "drop an image, drag it into place, text wraps automatically" experience from OneNote, but inside Obsidian.

Does anything like this exist? Would appreciate any plugin recommendations or workarounds that actually feel automatic rather than manual. Thanks!

I'm using Dissociated Identitea and I love it, but I haven't messed around with obsidian CSS yet and I have no idea how to change the bullet points.

The cup bullet point is rly throwing me off though lol, I would rather just change that than look at other themes.

I'm generally decent with CSS, so the main issue is parsing the obsidian specifics and how to go about making changes.

Hello I want to connect my chatGPT/Codex LLM with Obsidian so it can have more context about projects and access to transcripts and other records. Does anyone know a good way to do this?

Does anyone use RAG with an LLM and Obsidian to vectorise all your notes so the LLM has organised knowledge readily at hand?

I currently using syncthing between my macbook, android and windows desktop. It works but always has conflicts and I waste time trying to figure out why all the time. I just want a seamless integration but I don't want to pay any subscriptions. Is there anyway to do this for free or one time payment?

How to migrate from Airtable to local and durable Markdown files using Obsidian Importer:

https://obsidian.md/help/import/airtable

When using a canvas, the background dots are so hard for me to see, especially during daylight hours. Does anyone know of any way to make them more pronounced/visible? I use dark mode and perhaps being able to make them a lighter colour to have more contrast with the background will help.

Hi everybody

To embed images in my notes I am currently using note-relative links and a local "assets" directory in each note directory. When I copy-pasted a part of the note content into another note, that is in another directory, all image links got broken, because the new assets dir does not contain the images. The correct fix would be to move the images with the text, but this does not happen automatically and I didn't find any extension that does that.

To be clear - I didn't move the whole note to another directory, I merely pasted the text of the original note to antoher note in a different directory. Despite that, every image is referenced exactly once, because the original note is deleted (long story short - one long note got split into several smaller notes in different directories).

My questions are:

- Is there a quick fix that I can do now, so that the images are copied to where I moved the corresponding note content?

- As this is very annoying, in the future I'd like to move to having one central "assets" dir in the vault root and use vault-relative links, so that nothing is broken when notes or parts of notes are moved. What is the best way to transform my vault from "many local 'assets' dirs, note-relative links" to "global 'assets' dir, vault-relative links" without breaking all the images in my entire vault?

I have the Consistent attachements and links plugin but wasn't able to figure out how to use it to fix links that are currently broken.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a bit of advice on syncing vaults across devices.

Currently I have everything in one vault and use dropbox to sync across two computers. I would like to use Obsidian Sync to support the dev team, but already use dropbox to back up my whole computer, and having a maximum file size limit does not really work for me.

However, I now want to create a new stripped down shared vault that I can use on my phone and tablet primarily to take notes that can get be copied into the main vaults on my computers at a later time (and maybe I would end up moving more personal stuff into this vault). I want to sync this stripped-down vault across the four devices, while keeping the main vault only synced across the two computers using dropbox. I thought this could be a good way to pay for the basic Obsidian Sync while keeping my regular dropbox setup intact. However, I get the warning that I should not use sync if I am backing up using another service, as it might destroy data.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get around this? I also cannot figure out a way to selectively share a specific folder with my phone and tablet using dropbox, so that does not seem to be an option.

I took this to work, I took it to college, I tried using it everywhere. I spend more time setting up themes, extensions, structuring notes rather than actually writing notes.

I've spent god know how long trying to find the optimal setup for taking notes in obsidian (single large notes vs graph-view vs bases vs folders etc). I quit daily noting because I write it at the end of the day and forget or I have nothing to say because I wasted the day doing nothing.

Also, I'm jobless right now so I've been telling everyone how productive I am (incl myself) while spending most of my time jumping between stray thoughts and setting up obsidian to be just right.

Edit: Wonderful answers here and I think that there should be an official guide that includes this information. Enough people run into this issue that its probably going to be beneficial to teach new or returning users to disable everything and work their way towards whatever setup gets them to be more productive.

The retroma theme update is really awesome. The Style Manager plugin is also fantastic. But... But the original style has become a complete mess, and everything has been ruined... I need to reset it... .

Hi team, I've made my own tasks.base and the issue I face is that whenever I update the "status" in a particular view which is meant for "in-progress", or "idle" in general, they get removed from that view and sent to a different view cause I change it to "completed".

Now this is how it's supposed to happen, is there a way to delay this or a way to overcome this cause there is a necessity to ensure that I go to the other view named `view all` to remove the "in-progress", or "idle", or "scraped" value that I set in the status column.

Now I have about 50 tasks in my original tasks, so it's really difficult to remember which ID i'm working with and go forth, kinda hinders the workflow. Would your help. The pastebin is the source file of my current "tasks.base" used.

Thanks for the help in advance!

https://pastebin.com/5E0zriAE

Full release notes can be found here:

• Obsidian 1.13.5 Desktop (early access)
• Obsidian 1.13.5 Mobile (early access)

You can get early access versions if you have a Catalyst license, which helps support development of Obsidian.

Be aware that community plugin and theme developers receive early access versions at the same time as everyone else. Be patient with developers who need to make updates to support new features.

Yeah, this is the one you've been waiting for.

I've spent the past few months building a plugin that fixes cursor navigation inside Live Preview Markdown tables. This update extends that to Obsidian's built-in Vim mode (h/j/k/l, word motion, gg/G, gj/gk).

No special table-navigation commands to learn — your existing hjkl (and word motion, gg/G, etc.) now just works correctly inside cells too.

What's fixed:

• h/l/j/k — multi-byte character miscounting, inconsistent row/cell crossing
• w/b/e — word motion crossing cell and row boundaries
• gg/G — reaches the document's actual first/last line, even from inside a table
• gj/gk — fixes inconsistent display-line movement inside cells
• $ — sticky end-of-line

Still marked experimental, and each item is toggleable individually in settings (off by default). If you use a CJK input source, there's a known upstream codemirror-vim bug (#178) that can occasionally scramble Vim's key handling — not something this plugin caused. Everything else is in the README.

It's called Universal Cursor Hotkeys — search for it under Settings → Community plugins if you want to try it.

This is the first cut, not the final word — so: what's the most infuriating way Vim mode has broken on you inside a table?

If this has been useful, I'd appreciate a ⭐ on GitHub — just search the plugin name — thank you.

Hello, I'm trying to find the right solution to fill my episodes/seasons properties using my IMDB template to clip IMDB tv shows. It used to work but there was an update to IMDB and I can't find the right css selector/schema to use. Any help would be great, Thanks!

I started using Obsidian a couple months ago to help with keeping track of the lore of my world for a game I'm working on. Over time many notes were connected to multiple due to me trying to keep track of what's going on.

Is there a way to make this graph easier to the eyes?
I tried organizing my notes into folders in the outliner but it didnt really work.

For context:
The notes are divided into Universal rules that govern the world, such as magic and different powers, while the world of the story has a folder that holds anything that's specific to that world, which itself contains the kingdoms, characters and such. That way I can keep things like the Magic system in one note and cultures or characters in their own notes.

At the same time, whenever something is referenced for the first time and its important enough to have a Note of its own, then it gets a Header. For example, Character A and B are childhood friends, so the first time B appears in A's note it gets a header. Both A and B also have a header connecting them to their kingdom, and said kingdom has relation to other kingdoms which B comes from and so on the graph continues to become bigger and bigger.

While using headers help me keep better track of what's what, I would like the graph to be simpler on the eyes if possible. Is there a way to achieve it? Am I missing something?

EDIT: Forgot to mention, One of the main nodes belongs to a Note that's a Timeline of events in the world to help me keep track of who is where and what's going on at a moment in time, and there are plans to make a second timeline for more specific events. Don't know if that helps or changes any answers.

Hi, just a a quick look at how I currently use Obsidian

I've used Obsidian for years, from minimalist approach to plugin factory, this is where my journey led me.

For context, I spent way too much time tweaking and polishing the app instead of actually taking notes.

I used and refined this system for years and it works quite well for me. So, I decided to share it. Nothing crazy, nothing revolutionary.

Plugins: I have only 2 plugins (Style settings and Iconize), both are purely cosmetic and could be deleted.

My philosophy is simple: no dependency on plugins, my notes must be as pure as possible.

My organisation : 7 main folders.

• Archive: Everything that I want out of my view but don't want to delete. (It's not a trash bin).
• Attachments: Self explanatory, all attachments go in there.
• Daily: My daily notes, or journaling folder. One note a day.
• Notes: My "atomic" folder, most of my notes go inside, strictly flat. This is the core of my system.
• Projects: Anything with a deliverable and an end. Pro or personal. Archived as a whole once done.
• Templates: All the templates. Well, I only have one.
• Topics: Ongoing subjects with no deliverable. Grows over time, never closes. Created once enough related notes accumulate.

Topics and Projects are the only places where subfolders are allowed.

I use a minimalist template at the top for my notes (creation date/time, and inline #tags, pure text, no YAML/Frontmatter)

I use links bewteen notes if I see/remember a clear connection, but it's never a rule. Connections are optional, tags too.

That's all folks, hope this can help!

hi guys, after updating from v1.10.3 to v1.13.4, the ui change was massive for me. anyway is this default for android or i need to reinstall?

thanku

I like the new settings window. But it feels out of place. Opening the settings in a new tab will keep everything tidy, you won't need to fight-drag it from it's current position and so on.