What are some of your current frustrations with Obsidian?

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

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  • obsidian-customizable-sidebar

    Discontinued This Plugin allows you to add every Command to Obsidian's Sidebar Ribbon and add Custom Icons.

  • Agree. Someone told me about this and it's now on my Sidebar plus other actions I need: https://github.com/phibr0/obsidian-customizable-sidebar/

  • obsidian-omnisearch

    A search engine that "just works" for Obsidian. Supports OCR and PDF indexing.

  • I'm working on a search plugin that might interest you: https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch

  • 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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  • cMenu-Plugin

    An Obsidian.md plugin that adds a minimal text editor modal for a smoother writing/editing experience ✍🏽.

  • Have you tried the cMenu plugin?

  • vim-zettel

    VimWiki addon for managing notes according to Zettelkasten method (by mattfair)

  • Maybe the vim-zettel? https://github.com/mattfair/vim-zettel

  • ObsidianCustomFrames

    An Obsidian plugin that turns web apps into panes using iframes with custom styling. Also comes with presets for Google Keep, Todoist and more.

  • 90% sure this is possible with the Custom Frames plugin. But I haven't tried it yet

  • md.obsidian.Obsidian

  • Is that not this? https://flathub.org/apps/details/md.obsidian.Obsidian

  • obsidian-auto-note-mover

    This is a plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md).

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • quickadd

    QuickAdd for Obsidian

  • https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd (simpler version of templater)

  • remotely-save

    Yet another unofficial Obsidian plugin allowing users to synchronize notes between local device and the cloud service. Supports S3, Dropbox, OneDrive, webdav.

  • this plugin has onedrive support if you're interested https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save

  • customizable-page-header-buttons

    Discontinued Add command buttons left to the standard buttons in Obsidian mobile (and desktop, if enabled).

  • Adding that command to the header with customizable-page-header-buttons makes it easy access.

    Havd you tried settings-search: Adds a search bar to Obsidian.md's settings?

  • obsidian-etherpad-lite

  • There's a couple of options: - a shared git repo - obsidian-etherpad-lite

  • obsidian-switcher-plus

    Enhanced Quick Switcher plugin for Obsidian.md

  • Quick Switcher++ will do that for you.

  • obsidian-outliner

    Work with your lists like in Workflowy or RoamResearch

  • It lacks a true outliner. There is a plugin, https://github.com/vslinko/obsidian-outliner, but up to now it is difficult to manage complex multi-line nested list.

  • obsidian-quiet-outline

    Improving experience of outline in Obsidian

  • Check Quiet Outliner, https://github.com/guopenghui/obsidian-quiet-outline Not perfect, but still a nice improvement.

  • 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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