Obsidian, Genuinely the Best Free Program for WorldBuilding and How to Use it!

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/worldbuilding

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  • obsidian-achievements

    Add achievements to Obsidian to help guide the user to build good habits in Obsidian.

  • Achievements "Gamify your note taking by working towards gaining achievements!" adds a handful of goals like 'creating your first note' and 'writing 10,000 words' and it could be useful for encouraging new users. lookup all of these plugins on plugins tab or use link

  • admonitions

    Adds admonition block-styled content to Obsidian.md

  • Admonition adds a handful of organisational boxes that can be added to a file. link

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • obsidian-releases

    Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  • here's a link to download it!

  • advanced-tables-obsidian

    Improved table navigation, formatting, and manipulation in Obsidian.md

  • Advanced Tables you need this one, just get it, it lets you make tables without developing a headache. link

  • obsidian-chat-view

    An elegant chat view for Obsidian pages.

  • Chat View allows you to write out a text conversation with messages on the left and right sorta thing. link

  • obsidian-checklist-plugin

  • Checklist puts all your checklists from all files and put them in a neat sidebar view. link

  • obsidian-contextual-typography

  • Contextual Typography you can change the fonts of headings, simple. link

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • dangerzone-writing-plugin

    A plugin that forces you to write for X seconds. If you pause for more than 5 seconds, everything you've written in this note is DELETED.

  • Dangerzone Writing this scares me but some people may enjoy it! set a timer and you cannot stop writing for X amount of time or the whole thing is deleted. link

  • dice-roller

    Inline dice rolling for Obsidian.md

  • Dice Roller its like the perfect situation for any ttrpg, create formulas, use all kinds of dice, it's great. This can even be implemented into a file so a button can be clicked and the formula is rolled or it can be done in the side panel. link

  • obsidian-fantasy-calendar

  • Fantasy Calendar this one is awesome, create a calendar of any size, weeks any length, days can be named anything, any amount of months, multiple moons and add events and holidays. Link

  • obsidian-folder-note-plugin

    Plugin to add description note to a folder for Obsidian.

  • Folder Note allows you to add a lil description to your folders, super helpful and convenient. link

  • obsidian_image_caption

    Add captions to images in Obsidian.

  • Image Caption allows you to add descriptions to photos. link

  • obsidian-janitor

    Performs various maintenance tasks on the Obsidian vault

  • Janitor makes sure empty and unnecessary files are deleted or compressed. link

  • obsidian-kanban

    Create markdown-backed Kanban boards in Obsidian.

  • Kanban this is my favourite plugin, its essentially a really good tool for loose notetaking and has literally saved the progression of my worldbuilding. I keep stuff vaguely organised and just write dot points in it, so easy. link

  • obsidian-iconize

    Simply add icons to anything you want in Obsidian.

  • Obsidian Leaflet this is the game-changer for me, this genuinely puts it on par with stuff like world anvil. It lets you make maps with markers! linking to other documents, other maps, its genuinely awesome. It's a little difficult to use but you get the hang of it pretty quick once you figure out exactly how to import a photo. link

  • obsidian-timeline

    Obisdian.md plugin for creating timelines

  • Timeline (George Butco) allows you to create neat-looking timelines, pretty simple but it looks really nice. link

  • fantasy-statblocks

    Create Dungeons and Dragons style statblocks for Obsidian.md

  • TTRPG Statblocks lets you create statblocks for different game systems and it works without issues, you can add images, it does the math for you and I can't recommend it enough. link

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