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2026-05-13 The Future of Obsidian Plugins

The Obsidian team just launched Obsidian Community at community.obsidian.md; a new directory and developer platform for plugins and themes. I've been waiting for this for years. It reshapes plugin discovery and developer compliance, and it frees up serious time for the Obsidian team itself.

2026-05-12 Trellis 2 - Fast 3D Model Generation Now Easy to Import

Microsoft's new 3D generative AI framework Trellis 2 makes creating high-quality 3D models fast and accessible. The best part? The generated models can be directly imported into Blender and other 3D tools for further refinement, animation, and rendering.

Obsidian Community

The Obsidian Community is the official platform for discovering, evaluating, and tracking Obsidian plugins and themes. Announced on May 13, 2026, it replaced the previous manual submission process with automated scanning, developer dashboards, and a searchable directory.

2026-05-12 HTML as the New AI Output Format

HTML is opening up a richer way to explore AI-generated ideas. Not as a replacement for markdown — markdown remains excellent for text-first content — but as another canvas, one where ideas can include animations, interactivity, charts, layout, and structure that text alone can't carry.

Structuring AI responses as HTML

HTML is another way to represent and explore AI-generated ideas — alongside markdown, not as a replacement for it. Markdown stays excellent for text-first content: notes, drafts, transient conversation. But HTML opens up a much wider expressive surface for moments when ideas benefit from animation,

Claude Code Memory

Claude Code has two complementary memory systems, both loaded at every session start:

Obsidian Web Clipper

The Obsidian Web Clipper is a free and open-source Web browser extension created by Steph Ango, the CEO of Obsidian, and maintained by the Obsidian team. It makes it a breeze to curate/capture content and highlights from anywhere on the Web, convert it to Markdown, and to send it all to your Obsidia

Claude Code Configuration

Claude Code's configuration may be defined at different levels: - Local (default) - User - Project

AI Agent Harness

An AI agent harness is a tool or environment that wraps an AI model and exposes it as an interactive agent; giving it access to tools (file system, shell, browser, APIs, messaging), a conversation loop, and context about its operating environment. The harness handles the orchestration; routing tool

Understanding Bottleneck

> You can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding - Andrej Karpathy

Cognitive debt

Cognitive debt is the cost of not understanding how your own code works. It's distinct from Technical debt: technical debt is about code quality (messy code that works but is hard to maintain), while cognitive debt is about comprehension gaps (clean code that you can't confidently reason about becau

Knowii Community

Information chaos is silently sabotaging your productivity, creativity, and peace of mind. You're drowning in scattered notes, forgotten insights, and constant context switching—watching valuable ideas slip through the cracks daily.