The 10 best Obsidian plugins to supercharge your workflow

Main Agreement

• Enable community plugins in Obsidian for enhanced functionality and customization in your digital workspace.
• Explore top choices like Kanban boards, Full Calendar, Iconize, Outliner, Advanced Slides and more.
• Raise your note-taking game with Text Generator, Highlightr, Day Planner, Mind Map and Editing Toolbar plugins.

Thanks to a rich note-based editor, graph view, canvas, and a feature-packed free plan, Obsidian has captured the hearts of nerds and productivity makers in no time. Another reason for Obsidian’s growing popularity is the built-in community plugin store. These plugins work as an add-on to unlock more features within your Obsidian vault. Among 1700+ plugins, we’ve hand-picked the top options to transform your digital laptop workspace.

Obsidian has disabled community plugins by default. Before we start exploring the many options, make sure to enable the community plugins using the steps below.

1. Open a safe in Obsidian and head straight SETTINGS from the lower left corner.

   

2. Select Community plugins and select Enable community plugins.

   

3. Select Browse near Community plugins to check available plugins.

   

Now you can search for any plugin, choose install, and access it from your Obsidian sidebar. Now, let’s take a look at some of our top picks.

10 Kanban boards

Do you plan to use Obsidian as a project management tool? Since there are no Kanban boards built in, you can use this plugin from the community plugins to enable the functionality.

Once you activate the Kanban board plugin, you can access it from the sidebar and start adding columns and cards. The whole concept is quite similar to Trello. To add card information, simply click on the three-dot menu and select New note from the card. Obsidian opens the card details in the sidebar. You can view your project management details as a chart, table, and list format.

9 Full calendar

Although Obsidian offers a daily notes function, it does not have a built-in calendar view. You can use the Full Calendar add-on to view your events and manage your calendar along with your other entries in an Obsidian vault.

You can create a custom calendar or import one from your iCloud, Gmail or Outlook accounts. Once the calendar appears, select each day to add the event’s title, time, and other details.

8 Iconize

Iconize is a neat Obsidian plugin that adds an aesthetic touch to your boring vault. It unlocks a set of icons for your account. After installing and activating the plugin, right-click on any page or folder to insert an icon. You can even change the icon color from the plugin settings. For example, we changed the icon shadow to match Obsidian’s default accent color, as you can see in the screenshot above for reference.

7 Outliner

If you prefer the note-taking style of Roam Research or Workflowy, use the Outliner plugin to enable the same within Obsidian. Once you create such a list, memorize the default keystrokes to move the lists and sublists up and down using keyboard shortcuts. You can also draw vertical indentation lines (only compatible with the default Obsidian theme).

6 Advanced slides

While the advanced Slides plugin doesn’t replace PowerPoint or Google Slides in your workflow, you can use it to create simple presentations on the go. Once activated, create titles and add relevant information to create and share slides. A live preview appears in the sidebar. You can even print the presentation and export it as HTML.

5 Mind map

As the name suggests, this plugin can convert any Obsidian page into a mind map using the ‘/’ command. Once installed and activated, open any page and type /mind map to check the live preview at the bottom.

4 Day planner

Day Planner is essentially a calendar plugin with enhanced time block functionality. Many productivity gurus prefer blocks of time to plan their day. You can also sync your web calendars from iCloud, Outlook and Gmail.

Have you switched from OneNote, Evernote or Apple Notes to Obsidian? Although Obsidian comes with a powerful annotation editor and the ‘/’ command to edit text, some may prefer a traditional toolbar at the top. You can install and activate the Editing Toolbar plugin and enjoy the toolbar in action. You can even change the text color and highlighter shadow from the top menu.

2 Highlighters

By default, Obsidian supports the yellow highlighter. You can unlock more shades using the Highlightr plugin. Once activated, type any text or paragraph and right-click on it. Select highlight to see the available color options for your highlighter.

1 Text generator

Unlike other AI note taking apps, Obsidian doesn’t come with any chatbot by default. That said, you can install the Text Generator plugin to enable a GPT-3 powered AI bot in your vault.

1. install Text generator plugin. Open the plugin settings.
2. Go to OpenAI on the web and sign in with your account (or sign in if you don’t have one).
3. Select API keys from the sidebar and generate a new secret key.

   

4. Give an appropriate name and click Generate secret key.

   

5. Copy your own Open the AI ​​switch.

   

6. Go back to Obsidian and enter the same under API key.

   

7. Enter your request. Business /Text generator and select generate text from the pop-up menu.

   

Raise your note-taking game in no time

Although Obsidian is quite capable out of the box, you can use these powerful add-ons to transform the way you create, organize, and connect ideas. What are you waiting? Choose your favorite plugins and unlock new dimensions in your note-taking journey.

Obsidian is an ideal software for creating a personal knowledge management system. Check out our separate guide to learn more about using Obsidian as an efficient digital locker.