Obsidian set up for newbies

• obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

  51 3,367 9.3 TypeScript

  A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian

• MathJax

  56 9,904 1.8

  Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers

  

For math and programming, core plugin-free Obsidian should do fine. For math notes, it has built-in support for mathjax. For programming notes, it displays embedded code nicely via code blocks.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  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.

  

• mermaid

  122 66,838 10.0 JavaScript

  Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown

  

noteapps already covered Excalidraw plugin, which is probably the only "mandatory" one for what you've outlined. (Mandatory in quotes because Obsidian does include a version of mermaid.js which I believe can do drawing etc, but excalidraw's so much more convenient.)

• MathWiki

  9 360 9.8 Markdown

  An Obsidian.md vault for my math course notes in university.

Few days ago someone asked about math note taking and this vault was linked.

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