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Obsidian's CEO made a Claude Code skill that connects your vault to Claude

not sure how many people here are also using Claude Code but this is worth knowing about if it hasn't already been brought up.

kepano (Steph Ango, Obsidian CEO) built an official skill that teaches Claude how to work with Obsidian's specific formats. automatic tagging, linking between notes, understanding your vault structure, works with Bases, JSON Canvas, and CLI workflows.

install is one line:

git clone https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills.git ~/.claude/skills/obsidian

once installed claude stops being a generic assistant and starts being one that actually understands how obsidian organizes information. it knows about wikilinks, frontmatter, your folder structure, all of it.

for anyone who lives in obsidian and claude at the same time this is the missing link between your thinking tool and your doing tool.

found it while going through the claude code skills ecosystem. there's a whole directory of these now: here

anyone tried it yet? curious how people are connecting their vaults to AI tools.

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u/virtualunc — 43 minutes ago
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Obsidian Reader now has themes and typography settings

New in Obsidian Reader:

  • Themes and typography settings
  • Highlighting
  • Save options
  • Custom CSS

Also added a beautiful new reading experience for deeply nested comments on Reddit and Hacker News.

Available with Obsidian Web Clipper 1.3. The update is already approved on Chrome and Safari but may take a little longer to get approved for Firefox.

https://obsidian.md/clipper

u/kepano — 5 hours ago
Image 1 — Portals, v1.1.5 - Pinned folder trees, tag grouping, side portals, journal, folder notes & more
Image 2 — Portals, v1.1.5 - Pinned folder trees, tag grouping, side portals, journal, folder notes & more
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Portals, v1.1.5 - Pinned folder trees, tag grouping, side portals, journal, folder notes & more

It's been a while since my last post on this plugin. A lot of things have been added so I figured, I will share it again on this sub. I started on this project to make a plugin for myself, and then, over time kept adding what felt right based on feedback I received & based on my own thoughts. My usage is folder tree depended, but I've expanded to add support for users who like to use tags. The plugin is lightweight and its available for mobile and desktop. That being said, its not tested widely - I've tested it on my 3 devices, i.e. MacOS, Win11 and Android. Here's a bullet list of features,

  • Pin any folder or tag
  • Custom icons & colors
  • Preset styles for folder and tag trees
  • Tag Grouping
  • Foldable floating action buttons
  • Side Portal - A collapsable, resizable pane for,
    • Bookmarks
    • Recent Files
    • Folder Notes
    • Journal
  • Mobile friendly
  • Lot of customizations, options to export/import settings

For more details, checkout the github page. Available for direct download, clone and BRAT installations.

u/Six-skins — 5 hours ago
I Built an Obsidian Plugin to Convert Handwritten Notes to Markdown
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I Built an Obsidian Plugin to Convert Handwritten Notes to Markdown

In my previous article (https://www.dsebastien.net/i-built-an-obsidian-plugin-to-sync-my-remarkable-notes), I showed how to sync reMarkable notebooks into Obsidian as images. That was step one of my handwriting-to-text pipeline. This is step two.

I built the Transcriber plugin for Obsidian to convert those images into structured Markdown using local AI models. Right-click any image in your vault, select "Transcribe Image", and get a .md file back with headings, lists, quotes, tables, code blocks, and even Mermaid diagrams. All extracted by a vision AI running on your own machine. No data leaves your computer.

How it works

The plugin uses Ollama to run vision models locally. Ollama is a tool that lets you download and run AI models on your own hardware. You install it once (one command on Windows, Linux, or macOS), pull a model, and the plugin handles the rest.

Here's the workflow:

  1. Select an image in your vault (any image; handwritten notes, diagrams, screenshots)
  2. Right-click and choose "Transcribe Image" from the context menu
  3. The plugin calls Ollama, loads the vision model, and sends the image for conversion
  4. A Markdown file appears alongside the original image with the transcribed content

The first transcription takes a bit longer because the model needs to be loaded into memory. Subsequent ones are fast because the model stays loaded for a few minutes before being automatically unloaded to save resources.

Batch transcription

You don't have to go one image at a time. Right-click on a folder and select "Transcribe all images in folder". The plugin processes every image and saves the corresponding Markdown files. Handy when you've just synced a whole notebook from your reMarkable.

The prompt is customizable

The plugin includes a default prompt that instructs the AI to output Obsidian-flavored Markdown. It preserves the original document structure, formats headings and lists properly, converts diagrams to Mermaid syntax, and transcribes handwritten text as accurately as possible.

If the results aren't what you want, you can tweak the prompt in the plugin settings. Different models respond differently to prompting. You can also switch between multiple installed models to compare results.

Recommended models

The plugin settings list recommended vision models that I've tested for this task. I've been using glm-ocr and getting solid results. You can install models directly from the plugin settings; no terminal needed.

Any Ollama vision model works. Install multiple ones and compare.

Privacy

I don't want to send my handwritten notes to some cloud service. You might not care about that, or you might care a lot. Either way, running everything locally means zero data leaves your machine. Ollama processes everything on your CPU/GPU.

The full pipeline

My handwriting-to-Markdown pipeline is now two steps:

  1. Import notebooks as images using the reMarkable Sync plugin for Obsidian
  2. Convert images to Markdown using the Transcriber plugin for Obsidian

Both plugins I built. Both run locally. Both open source.

The results aren't perfect. You still need to review and clean up the output. But it saves a massive amount of time compared to manual transcription.

Demo

I recorded a 10-minute video walking through the full setup and workflow: https://youtu.be/uD5FcY1fx-s

Get started

The plugin isn't in the community plugin directory yet, but you can install it manually from GitHub.

Going Further

If you want a ready-made Obsidian vault with the best structure, plugins, and templates already set up, check out my Obsidian Starter Kit: https://www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obsidian-starter-kit

And if you want weekly tips on PKM, note-taking, and knowledge work, subscribe to my newsletter (free): https://dsebastien.net/newsletter

That's it for today!

u/lechtitseb — 5 hours ago
My beautiful obsidian for math notes
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My beautiful obsidian for math notes

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u/Key_Conversation5277 — 9 hours ago
My first homepage
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My first homepage

I wanted a clean, minimal homepage for my Obsidian vault without relying on a bunch of plugins. Everything is built with Dataview code blocks inside a single Home.md.

What's on the dashboard:

  • Live 24h clock — setInterval ticking every second, shows current time and full date
  • Vault stats — one quiet line: total notes, active project docs, journal entries, dailies
  • Search bar — a fake input that triggers Omnisearch on click via app.commands.executeCommandById()
  • Container cards — navigation to Projects, Work, Library, and Journal. Each card dynamically shows note count and last activity timestamp
  • Recent files — last 8 modified notes as cards with folder + timestamp

The entire dashboard was built and iterated using Claude Code

u/Neat_Yak7739 — 19 hours ago
I built a way to access my Obsidian vault from a browser. Would love your feedback!
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I built a way to access my Obsidian vault from a browser. Would love your feedback!

Hey everyone,

I use Obsidian as my main note-taking system, but my work laptop is completely locked down by our IT team, so I can’t install a lot of third-party apps (such as Obsidian 😭).

It’s been annoying since a lot of my thinking for work projects is stored in my Obsidian vault and I don't want to have to switch between my work laptop and my personal devices just to check on some ideas I had recorded down..

I ended up building a browser-based vault interface to access my notes and it's been really useful for me personally.

https://preview.redd.it/vcr1gh4k91tg1.jpg?width=3440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1159d49ce7ef180e3f995e275367dfcb942e270

As I continue working on it, I wanted to ask:

  • Are others dealing with this kind of restriction with their work devices?
  • Would browser-based vault access actually be useful for you, or not really?
  • Any specific features you'd like to see if you were to use something like this?

Happy to share the platform if anyone’s interested, I just don't want to come across as shilling a product. Everything i've built is 100% free and accessible.

Cheers, and happy Easter! 🐣

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u/People_Change_ — 2 hours ago
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How are you all handling file and tag structures these days?

Doing some housekeeping on my vault and looking to rethink my physical files and tags. I know everyone’s logic for this is completely different, so I'm really curious what approach has actually stuck for you over time, and why it works for your brain.

Also, is anyone relying on automation to sort or tag things? I'm tempted to set something up but wondering if it's a genuine time-saver or if it just ends up being over-engineering.

Would love to hear how you're running things.

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u/TemporaryUser10 — 2 hours ago
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Feature Enhancement: Bases

First off, Bases has completely changed the way I take notes in the best way possible. I sincerely thank the Obsidian team for making such a great product.

I use Bases to create different Bases for each subject in my life: Tasks, chores, reference, work, etc. I then combine them in a note dashboard. As I'm adding notes, I'm noticing the Dashboards are getting too long.

If I limit the number of results, this hides all other note that are not in the those results count. Can there be a limit on the height, but add a scroll bar so all notes be viewed while maintaining the height. This would greatly enhance the ability to use bases in dashboards.

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u/Only-penguins-414 — 10 hours ago
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Daily note base

Hello,

I've used Kepano's vault as a template and I've been rebuilding it to adapt to how I use and derive benefit from Obsidian. One thing I've been struggling with is how to add a daily note base that adds notes created on a given day to that day's daily note. Can anyone please provide some suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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u/OppositeDust5772 — 4 hours ago
Can't delete the orphan "files" in the screenshot !!!
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Can't delete the orphan "files" in the screenshot !!!

Hello guys,

As the title may suggest, I can't delete the orphan "files" shown in my graph view, since they don't even exist in my volt (they used to be empty notes i forgot about then deleted a while back but they're still in the graph view for some reason). And, yes they stay there when I reload the graph view as well,

So when I left click em no menu shows up, and when I right click any of them they get created with the old title but when I delete the file again it still shows in the graph view. What should I do ?

Thanks in advance,

https://preview.redd.it/ozs2uetfh0tg1.png?width=1072&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed67b6d0201225e9dbad3a17bf5fbd36ea21294b

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u/Quiet_Recover329 — 4 hours ago
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How to automatically bold list "headers"

Hello, wise obsidian people.

I really enjoy formatting my lists in the following manner:

  • thing 1: details about the thing.
  • thing 2: details about thing 2.
  • thing 3: details about thing 3.

However, bolding the list headers "thing 1...", is a pain in the arse.

Do you know any way to automate this?

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u/naogalaici — 7 hours ago
Libre Voice Note — voice-to-markdown capture for vault
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Libre Voice Note — voice-to-markdown capture for vault

Hey all — I made the Cycle In Sidebar plugin a while back, so I've been around the Obsidian ecosystem for a bit.

Lately I've been scratching my own itch: I wanted a way to capture voice notes on my phone and have them show up in my vault as markdown files, without fiddling with copy-paste or format conversion.

So I built an Android app called Libre Voice Note. It runs Nvidia's parakeet AI model locally on your phone (no cloud, no subscription), transcribes what you say, and syncs the .md file to your vault folder through Google Drive or Dropbox.

I've been thinking of it as kind of a "physical plugin" for Obsidian — it's not in the app, but it feeds directly into your vault. Press a volume button, talk, and it just shows up in your notes.

A few things that might matter to this crowd:

- Transcription is fully on-device. Nothing leaves your phone.

- Output is plain markdown. No proprietary format.

- There's a hands-free "focus mode" where you just hit a volume button to start/stop.

- It's free.

Mostly built this for myself but figured others here might have the same workflow gap. Happy to answer questions or hear how you'd want something like this to work.

[link to google play store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.garnetsoft.voicenotemobile)

u/houchenglin — 17 hours ago
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Advice when organaizing?/How do I make checkboxes?

I am making myself a setup in Obsidian to help organize myself. However, I am unsure how to create checkboxes in my lists. I tried using - [ ], and it did not appear to work.

Also, I am unsure how to efficinetly set things up for maximum effictiveness. Any advice would be apprecieted.

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u/Kung_fu1015 — 12 hours ago
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Making terms equivalent for searching purposes

I use a lot of acronyms in my notes. I want to be able to search for related notes by either searching the full term or the acronym because I don’t always remember which one I used in a particular note. is there a way to tell obsidian to treat an acronym and its corresponding term as equivalent? I thought of aliases, but I don’t want to have to edit every note where a term might show up.

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u/feeling_moldy — 6 hours ago
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I want to give my Vault to my Wife. Need Suggestions.

I'm new to Obsidian and Reddit also. please tell me the solution for this (English is not my first language, so ignore mistakes.)

So, okay I'll tell you the situation here. I downloaded obsidian a few weeks ago and I am putting efforts into it, I've created a lot of notes. The main reason of me writing and using obsidian is to organize my information and documenting my life. You can say that everything that comes to my mind and everything that happened with me or will happen, I'll write it in my obsidian vault. And after my death, I want My Vault to be published so that everyone can know the true me and if anyone ever took interest in my life, they can easily read my whole life. Or if any stranger wants to know, so they too can read it.

But that's not the main reason, I want that in future If I met someone, I'll be able to give them my vault and let them know about my whole life. For Now I can only thought of my wife (I'm unmarried). I want to give my vault to her so that she can understand my life and can understand me very easily. I've a lot of philosophical ideologies that I'll want to tell her.

And I would like to tell you that I'm a open person, and I think that if there are no secrets between two persons, then there'll be no fight between them. they can able to understand each other. But isn't it'll be weird that in future my wife will read about my past relationships, and school love stories. I don't mind telling those stories myself to her, but it's kinda weird that I used to love someone else before her.

I though about it a lot, I though that I'm open person, So I'll tell her everything. But then I remember that female phycology is different than man phycology, and they can get emotional very easily. And other than that, I've a lot of deep secrets and truama's that I don't want to tell anybody. So I'm asking you guys what will I do? Should I create two vaults? but then I've to copy paste everything, and I'll have two same vaults with just small diffrence.

I have Few questions:

  1. will it be a good idea to tell her everything?

  2. Should I write everything in one single vault and give it to her?

  3. Should I make two vaults, one for her and one for Everything. (I really don't want the headach of two vaults and copy pasting like 99% of the thing.)

  4. So what could I do?

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u/Dependent_Revenue604 — 8 hours ago
Mind map Plugin - Genealogy, taxonomy and complex relations
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Mind map Plugin - Genealogy, taxonomy and complex relations

Hi! I'm trying to make the most out of Obsidian for my biology notes, but I can't seem to make a taxonomy or genealogical tree on canvas the way I want to.

So far, I've only managed to link up to two boxes with a single arrow/connection, but I'm aiming for the style referenced in the pictures below (specifically the first one; I'm literally trying to make those but with their names instead of pictures), where a link can be split into multiple branches that don't necessarily connect to the initial box; only to a common axis without a specific label... is there a plugin that allows you to do this?

I'll highlight that it is important to me that the axis that connects the two+ subjects with the initial box has no text in it (mainly because it is not useful information to me and would be distracting).

Thank you for taking the time to read and answer this post :) I'll edit if I find a plugin for this I like.

https://preview.redd.it/zwdxzeh5qusg1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=4a0f994ab472bc1c45b05772facd388964d64fd2

https://preview.redd.it/dcvjfcuiousg1.png?width=820&format=png&auto=webp&s=4428e9d8e67b30bbf914a63ac4f882c59bb8393d

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u/dataisms_ — 24 hours ago
Week