Best Obsidian Plugins (2026)

Treat your vault as a database. Query, filter, sort, and display data from your Markdown notes using a powerful query language similar to SQL. Essential for building dashboards, MOCs, and automated lists.

A powerful template engine for Obsidian. Define templates with dynamic commands, JavaScript execution, user prompts, and system commands. Far more powerful than core templates.

A full-featured drawing and diagramming tool embedded directly in Obsidian. Create hand-drawn-style diagrams, mind maps, wireframes, and illustrations linked to your notes.

Create Markdown-backed Kanban boards in Obsidian. Manage projects, track tasks, and organize workflows with drag-and-drop cards: all stored as plain Markdown.

Task management inside Obsidian. Track tasks across your entire vault with due dates, recurrence, priorities, filters, and global queries. Works with any note.

A simple calendar widget for Obsidian. Visualize and navigate your daily notes from a clean sidebar calendar. Click any date to open or create its daily note.

Back up your vault with Git. Automatic commits, push/pull, diff view, and history: all without leaving Obsidian. Works with GitHub, GitLab, and any Git remote.

Sync your vault across devices for free using S3, Dropbox, OneDrive, Backblaze B2, or WebDAV. The #1 alternative to Obsidian's paid Sync.

One-click Git sync for your Obsidian vault on desktop and mobile. Pure JavaScript: no system Git required. Push and pull to GitHub with conflict resolution, selective commits, and auto-sync.

Professional cloud sync and VFS for Obsidian. Features zero-space VFS, 4K streaming, built-in media player, AES-GCM encryption, and P2P collaboration. Supports WebDAV, S3, Baidu, Aliyun, and Quark.

Real-time vault sync using CouchDB or object storage (MinIO, S3, R2) with end-to-end encryption. Full privacy: your vault, your server, your rules.

Improved table editing in Obsidian with spreadsheet-like navigation, auto-formatting, formulas, sorting, and CSV/HTML export. Makes Markdown tables painless.

Create and manage daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes with customizable templates and folder organization.

A Google Calendar-style interface inside Obsidian. Reads events from daily notes, tasks, and external ICS feeds (Google, Outlook, iCloud) in weekly or monthly views.

Quickly add content to your vault with powerful macros, templates, and capture workflows. Automate repetitive actions with multi-step commands.

Format and lint your Markdown files automatically. Fix YAML frontmatter, heading levels, spacing, trailing whitespace, and dozens of other rules on save.

Customize the look of your theme and CSS snippets through a graphical settings panel. Many community themes expose hundreds of options through this plugin.

Set any note, workspace, or canvas as your vault homepage. Automatically opens when you launch Obsidian or switch vaults.

Add commands to every part of the Obsidian UI: title bar, status bar, sidebar, context menus, and more. Fully customizable toolbar and macro system.

Add icons to files, folders, and notes in the file explorer. Choose from thousands of icons (Lucide, Font Awesome, etc.) and emoji to visually organize your vault.

Add beautiful header banner images to any note: just like Notion. Drop in a local image, URL, or drag-and-drop to give notes a stunning visual header.

Transform any Markdown note into an interactive, collapsible mind map powered by Markmap. Instantly visualize note structure from headings and bullet points.

Intelligent auto-completion for Obsidian. Autocompletes words from your vault, internal links, frontmatter, and custom dictionaries as you type.

Notion-like database views for your folders. Create filtered, sorted, and grouped table views of notes with editable properties: like a spreadsheet for your vault.

Project management views for Obsidian: table, board, calendar, and gallery views. Manage notes as project items with properties, filters, and sorting.

Improve bullet list editing with Workflowy/Dynalist-like folding, moving, and zooming into nested lists. Makes Obsidian a powerful outliner.

Companion plugin for the Minimal theme. Customize colors, fonts, layout density, and card styles directly from a settings panel.

Advanced graph analysis tools for your vault. Discover note relationships with co-citations, link predictions, community detection, and centrality metrics.

See how your notes are connected in real-time. Shows backlink and block reference counts inline, revealing hidden connections across your vault.

Displays the estimated reading time for the current note in the status bar. Simple, lightweight, and useful for writers and content creators.

An AI assistant for Obsidian. Chat with GPT-4, Claude, and local LLMs directly in your vault. Summarize notes, generate content, and ask questions about your knowledge base.

AI-powered note connections. Uses embeddings to find semantically similar notes, chat with your vault using AI, and discover hidden relationships between ideas.

AI-assisted writing directly inside notes. Smart Composer brings an AI editing experience close to coding assistants to Markdown notes, supporting local and cloud LLMs.

Reusable AI prompts and automated text generation for Obsidian. Designed around customizable templates for repeatable generation workflows.

A simple, lightweight AI chatbot interface inside Obsidian with native support for Ollama, LM Studio, and cloud LLMs.

Automatically generate and manage tags for your Obsidian notes using AI models, keeping your vault structured.

Beta Reviewer's Auto-update Tester. Install and update beta plugins and themes directly from GitHub repositories, even if they're not in the community store. Essential for testing unreleased plugins.

Anki-style flashcard system built into Obsidian. Create flashcards from your notes using inline syntax, then review them with a scientifically proven spaced repetition algorithm to maximize retention.

Parse natural language dates and times in Obsidian. Type 'next Monday' or 'in 3 weeks' and instantly get formatted date links. Works with daily notes and Templater.

Extract and split notes effortlessly. Select any content and refactor it into a new note, auto-linking back to the original. Great for breaking large notes into atomic ideas.

Adds a sidebar panel showing your recently opened files. Quickly jump back to files you were just working on without hunting through the file tree.

Highlight text with multiple colors using a beautiful floating toolbar. Go beyond the single default yellow highlight and color-code your notes for different topics or importance levels.

Time-blocking and daily schedule management inside Obsidian. Write a time-blocked plan in your daily note and see it rendered as a visual timeline in the sidebar.

Embed interactive, zoomable maps into your Obsidian notes using Leaflet.js. Pin locations, draw regions, and link map markers to other notes: perfect for travel, worldbuilding, and research.

A powerful frontmatter manager with a visual UI. Define field types, create dropdown selectors, manage multi-value fields, and edit metadata from a clean sidebar panel without touching raw YAML.

Import Zotero references, annotations, and highlights directly into Obsidian. Generate literature notes from your Zotero library with customizable templates. Essential for academic writing and research.

Export Obsidian notes to Word (.docx), PDF, HTML, epub, LaTeX, and many other formats using Pandoc. Handles Obsidian-flavored Markdown, wiki links, and embedded images.

Enhanced image viewing in Obsidian. Click any image to open a lightbox with zoom, rotation, and pan controls. Great for visual notes, screenshots, and reference images.

Create fully custom calendars with any number of months, weeks, and days. Perfect for fantasy worldbuilding, campaign tracking, or any fictional setting that needs its own time system.

Create interactive, clickable buttons inside your notes. Run commands, open files, insert templates, or execute custom JavaScript, all from a styled button inside any note.

Automatically download all remote images in your notes and save them locally in your vault. Keeps your notes fully portable and readable offline without broken image links.

Enhanced word and character count for Obsidian. Shows word count for selected text, current note, and the entire vault. Displays reading time and sentence count in the status bar.

Hide various Obsidian UI elements for a cleaner writing environment. Toggle off the title bar, ribbon, scrollbars, tooltips, and more to create a distraction-free workspace.

A smarter search engine for Obsidian. Instantly finds the most relevant notes with fuzzy matching, typo tolerance, and OCR for images and PDFs. Just hit the shortcut and type.

Add hierarchical structure to your vault with parent/child/sibling relationships between notes. Navigate your knowledge like a family tree with trail views, matrix views, and grid visualizations.

Turn the page preview popover into a fully editable, draggable, resizable editor window. Edit notes in popups without leaving your current context.

Write novels, screenplays, and long-form projects in Obsidian. Organize scenes and chapters into draft outlines, track word count goals, and compile everything into a single manuscript.

Rename, merge, search, and organize tags from the tag pane's context menu. Batch-rename a tag across your entire vault in one click: something core Obsidian still can't do.

Add beautiful callout-style content blocks: notes, warnings, tips, quotes, and custom types. Enhances Obsidian's native callouts with custom icons, colors, and collapsible blocks.

Create interactive charts and graphs directly in your notes using simple code blocks. Bar, line, pie, radar, and more: powered by Chart.js and integrates with Dataview.

Track anything in your notes: habits, moods, weight, exercise: and visualize it with line charts, bar charts, and summaries. Collects data from tags, frontmatter, and text patterns.

GitHub-style contribution heatmaps for your notes. Visualize habits, writing streaks, workouts, or any daily activity as a year-at-a-glance colored calendar powered by Dataview.

Automatically fetches the page title when you paste a URL, turning bare links into readable Markdown links. Small quality-of-life plugin you'll never turn off.

Control Obsidian from outside via powerful URIs. Open notes, run commands, write to files, and navigate to headings or blocks: perfect for automation with Shortcuts, Alfred, or scripts.

Publish selected notes from your vault to a free public website hosted on Netlify or Vercel. A self-hosted alternative to Obsidian Publish with themes, backlinks, and graph view.

The official migration tool. Import notes from Notion, Evernote, Apple Notes, Google Keep, Roam Research, OneNote, and more into clean Obsidian Markdown.

Write LaTeX math as fast as handwriting with snippets, auto-expansion, and tabout. Type 'sr' inside math and get a square root: essential for students and researchers.

An interactive, structured mind-map of your vault that infers relationships from links, Dataview fields, and tags. Like TheBrain, but for Obsidian: navigate connections visually.

Style internal links based on note metadata. Color-code links by tag or frontmatter attribute so you can tell what type of note a link points to at a glance.

Make your notes interactive with input fields, sliders, toggles, and buttons bound directly to frontmatter. Build forms and dashboards that read and write metadata live.

Supercharge Obsidian's PDF viewer. Highlight and annotate PDFs with annotations saved as Markdown, backlink to exact PDF locations, and embed PDF sections into notes.

A Twitter-like quick capture stream for Obsidian. Jot down fleeting thoughts, ideas, and micro-journal entries in a chat-style timeline stored in your daily notes.

Open and annotate PDF and EPUB files inside Obsidian. Highlights and annotations are stored as Markdown, so your reading notes live alongside your vault.

Sync your Kindle book highlights and notes into Obsidian. Import from Amazon or your My Clippings file with customizable templates for literature notes.

Create book notes instantly by searching titles online. Auto-fills metadata like author, cover, ISBN, and publish date into templated notes: perfect for reading logs.

Take timestamped notes on videos and audio. Embed YouTube, Bilibili, or local media with playback controls, and click timestamps in your notes to jump to that moment.

A Microsoft Word-style formatting toolbar for Obsidian. Bold, highlight, headings, colors, and more from a customizable ribbon: great for users who prefer buttons over syntax.

Attach notes directly to folders, Notion-style. Click a folder to open its note instead of just expanding it: ideal for folder-based dashboards and MOCs.

Auto-generate maps of content in your folder notes. Waypoint keeps a live-updating table of links to every note in a folder, so your MOCs never go stale.

Automatically carry over unfinished checkboxes from yesterday's daily note into today's. Never lose track of incomplete tasks between days.

Keep the line you're typing centered on screen, like a typewriter. Includes an optional focus mode that dims everything except the current sentence or paragraph.

Grammar, spelling, and style checking powered by LanguageTool. Supports dozens of languages and works with the free public API or your own self-hosted server.

An interactive map of your vault. Plot notes with geolocation frontmatter on a real-world map, search places, and create location-based notes for travel and research.

Consolidate every checkbox across your vault into one sidebar panel, grouped by tag or page. A lightweight way to see all open todos at a glance.

Select text, paste a URL, and get a Markdown link instantly: the same behavior you know from Notion, Slack, and Google Docs. Tiny plugin, huge quality of life.

Rename pasted images the moment they land in your vault instead of keeping cryptic 'Pasted image 20240101.png' names. Supports auto-rename patterns based on the note name.

Quickly search and insert emoji from a slick popup picker. Trigger it with a hotkey and add personality to your notes without leaving the keyboard.

Look up definitions, synonyms, and pronunciations without leaving Obsidian. Right-click any word or use the sidebar to search multiple languages.

A better outline panel with search, drag-to-reorder headings, auto-expand on scroll, and Markdown rendering in headings. Makes navigating long notes effortless.

Embed a live table of contents in any note with a simple code block. Auto-updates as you add or rename headings, with customizable depth and styles.

Automatically number your headings (1.1, 1.2, 2.1...) like a formal document. Great for academic papers, documentation, and structured long-form writing.

Scan your vault for images and attachments no longer referenced by any note and delete them in one click. Keeps your vault lean and tidy.

A Notion-like experience for Obsidian: spaces for organizing notes, inline context tables, a block editor with drag handles, and rich embeds: all stored as Markdown.

Break out of single-column layouts. Create multi-column regions in your notes with simple syntax: perfect for dashboards, comparisons, and landing pages.

Browse the web inside Obsidian. Open links in built-in browser tabs, save pages as Markdown, highlight web content, and search with your favorite engine.

Supercharge Obsidian Canvas with presentation mode, flowchart shapes, edge styles, collapsible groups, and export options. Everything Canvas should have shipped with.

Run code blocks directly in your notes and see the output inline. Supports Python, JavaScript, Rust, C++, R, and 30+ other languages: a notebook inside Obsidian.

Render PlantUML diagrams in your notes: sequence diagrams, class diagrams, flowcharts, Gantt charts, and more from simple text code blocks.

Read RSS feeds inside Obsidian. Subscribe to blogs and news sources, then save articles as notes with highlights: turn your vault into a research inbox.

The official Readwise sync plugin. Automatically import your highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, Pocket, Twitter, and PDFs into organized Obsidian notes.

Automatically file notes into the right folder based on rules matching tags or title patterns. Set it up once and your inbox organizes itself.

Export flashcards from your notes straight into Anki. Define cards with flexible regex-based syntax and keep your spaced repetition decks in sync with your vault.

Create Anki flashcards from your notes with clean #card syntax. Supports cloze deletions, reversed cards, and syncing updates back to existing decks.

Export single notes or your whole vault as a polished, searchable HTML website: complete with theme, file tree, graph view, and working internal links.

A friendly Pandoc-powered export dialog. One-click export to Word, PDF, HTML, Textbundle, and more with variable substitution and per-format settings.