cMenu-Plugin VS quickadd

A simple formatting bar: https://github.com/chetachiezikeuzor/cMenu-Plugin

You’re welcome! Check out this plugin as well. It hasn’t been added to the official plugins list within the app so downloading it might be a bit more challenging. In this case you could turn the plugin that inspired it but unfortunately seems to be no longer maintained: link

You could go to options -> core plugins and enable the "Slash commands" plugin. There's also this community plugin that adds a text editor modal.

There are some plugins like cmenu to add some click-based formatting, or customizable menu that can add them into right-click menus.

Have you tried the cMenu plugin?

Templater lets you insert templates with custom keyboard shortcuts. CMenu adds a small menu at the bottom of the screen that you can fill with any command in Obsidian, including custom ones added by Templater.

I think there's no toolbar, only WYSIWYG. There are plugins that help with this, like: Markdown Formatting Assitant and CMenu. i know that a plugin doesn't solve the issue, there's a post in the Obsidian Forum talking about this.

I've heard you can use QuickAdd to streamline creating notes in specific places, but haven't tried it myself.

I haven't tried Siri + Obsidian myself but I think the approach is to use Advanced URI plugin. See this discussion https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-advanced-uri/issues/60 and https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd/issues/256

I use QuickAdd religiously for capturing quick notes during my workday for later follow-up without interrupting my flow. This works brilliantly when the Obsidian app is open and focused, but sometimes I'm on a different virtual desktop and I need to navigate back to it. The next level for minimal interruption would be to configure a system-wide hotkey that works even if I'm not focused on the Obsidian app. It would bring up a simple text input (whether that's Obsidian-based or not), I jot down the note, and the input would auto-close on submit just like QuickAdd.

Reference: quickadd issue

The only thing that occurs to me would be Obsidian with the Dataview and Templater (or maybe QuickAdd) plugins. You can embed the YouTube video directly like so. It's not exactly your ideal UI, but if you happen to be a web developer you could probably bend it to your will.

I’m not 100% if this will do what you want but I’ve seen a combination of both templater and this quick add https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd to add prompts to create sections in the notes. I haven’t done it myself but I have found the idea is pretty cool and can be practical

Other than that, the QuickAdd and Templater plugins allows you to add and format new md notes. There are a lot of QuickAdd recipes available to draw inspiration from.

Another option could be to use the QuickAdd community plugin as it lets you set up a command to create a note with a pre-determined file name format. You could make a command to create a note with the File Name Format {{DATE}} to automatically name the note the current date with the format YYYY-MM-DD. I also just tried this myself and the template worked as expected.

The plugin I used in the video: Plugin to choose the color and the icons for the callouts: https://github.com/valentine195/obsidian-admonition - Plugin to create notes from a selected text: https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd - Plugin to add a command in the left ribbon: https://github.com/phibr0/obsidian-commander - Plugin for templates: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater - Plugin to manage fields on notes: https://github.com/mdelobelle/metadatamenu - Plugin to display filtered tables of your notes: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview