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The Best Obsidian Plugins for 2026
The must-have Obsidian plugins for 2026 - Dataview, Dataview Serializer, Templater, QuickAdd, TaskNotes, Tasks, Omnisearch, and Excalidraw, plus 75+ more I use daily.
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The how of knowledge management: choosing tools, setting up Obsidian, and applying proven structures like PARA, Zettelkasten, and atomic notes so your system captures everything without becoming a second job.
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The Complete Guide to Obsidian Properties
Properties are the difference between a pile of Markdown files and a knowledge system you can query. In this article, I explain how to use Obsidian properties from your very first field to a full schema powering dashboards, Kanban boards, and AI agents across 20,000 notes.
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How I Turned My Obsidian Notes Into Kanban Boards
I built a plugin that turns any Obsidian Base into a Kanban board, a calendar, and a triage queue, with every change written straight back to your notes. Here's how I plan my whole vault with it.
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Announcing Book Exporter - A New Obsidian Plugin
Book Exporter turns a structured Obsidian note tree into a real book; one manifest note, one command, EPUB and PDF out the other side via Pandoc.
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I Built an Obsidian Plugin to Sync My reMarkable Notes 📝
An Obsidian plugin that imports everything from your reMarkable tablet
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How I Manage All My Tasks Inside Obsidian with the TaskNotes Plugin
I just published a new YouTube video showing how I manage ALL my tasks inside Obsidian using the TaskNotes plugin. No separate app. No context switching. Everything connected.
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Never Lose a Note Again — Time Machine Plugin for Obsidian
Obsidian has a built-in File Recovery plugin, but it's pretty basic. I built the Time Machine plugin to fix that. Here's what it does and why you'll want it.
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Chaos to Clarity: Unleash Obsidian Daily Notes
Stop wasting time organizing notes when you should be capturing ideas. Here's how I use daily notes in Obsidian as my primary capture system, and why it changed everything.
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The Best Obsidian Plugins for 2026
The must-have Obsidian plugins for 2026 - Dataview, Dataview Serializer, Templater, QuickAdd, TaskNotes, Tasks, Omnisearch, and Excalidraw, plus 75+ more I use daily.
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Dataview Serializer 2.0: Powerful Queries Without Sacrificing Data Portability
Dataview Serializer 2.0 turns your dynamic queries into real Markdown: visible in the Graph, working on Publish, and portable to any tool.
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The Tag System That Finally Made Sense for Me - From Perfectionism Paralysis to Discovery Freedom
The tag system that finally worked combined structured type tags for reliability with liberal topic tagging for discovery. Emergence beats planning for knowledge work.
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Announcing Life Tracker - A New Obsidian Plugin
Capturing and leveraging the data that matters shouldn't be that hard! Introducting the Life Tracker plugin for Obsidian
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Build Your Knowledge System for Decades, Not Months: Why Long-Term Thinking Matters in PKM
Most people build knowledge systems for today. Smart people build them for decades. Here's why that choice matters more than you think, and how to make the right decisions