I looked for the best Obsidian plugins to increase my productivity.
When writing this, well over 1000 community plugins are available for Obsidian – and many of them are really, really good.
To make it on this list, a plugin had to meet one or more of these criteria:
- help me execute an activity faster,
- save me time by automating things,
- add missing functionality that is relevant to me,
- make the interaction with Obsidian easier.
TOP 10 OBSIDIAN PLUGINS - INFOGRAPHIC
10 – Kindle Highlights
Sync your highlights as notest into Obsidian based on your own template definition.
9 – Book Search
Add book notes and automatically import information about a book (title, author, cover, genre, etc.).
8 – Excalidraw
Add whiteboard functionality to Obsidian.
7 – Note Refactor
Easily split long notes into new ones with custom templates and automatic linking between notes.
6 – Metadata Menu (+Canvas)
Change your notes’ frontmatter attributes quickly and easily by moving them around on an Obsidian Canvas.
5 – Checklist
Show a consolidated – and managed – list of open items anywhere in your vault in the Obsidian side pane.
4 – Tasks
Get additional options for adding tasks, such as start/due/end date, priority, etc.
3 – Projects
Create and manage projects in Obsidian, including a Kanban view for moving items from one phase or state to another.
2 – Dataview
Create dynamic views of items in your vault. From simple lists and tables to calendar and task views.
1 – Templater
Automate note creation and make your notes more consistent.
TOP 10 OBSIDIAN PLUGINS - INFOGRAPHIC
Image Credits
The icons used in the video, this post, and the tier list come from flaticon.com. Here are the detailed attributions:
- Count icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Settings icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Ui icons created by pictranoosa – Flaticon
- Tracker icons created by Eucalyp – Flaticon
- Languages icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Text edit icons created by Flat Icons – Flaticon
- Command line icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Monitoring icons created by Eucalyp – Flaticon
- Time and date icons created by Moudesain – Flaticon
- Calendar icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Number icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Table content icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Time and date icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- To do list icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Recent icons created by Enamo Studios – Flaticon
- Webpage icons created by YnJStudio – Flaticon
- Database icons created by Uniconlabs – Flaticon
- Frequency icons created by Paul J. – Flaticon
- Kindle icons created by Flat Icons – Flaticon
- Book icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Refactoring icons created by Flat Icons – Flaticon
- Planning icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Project icons created by Dewi Sari – Flaticon
- Information icons created by Freepik – FlaticonSeo and web icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Coding icons created by juicy_fish – Flaticon
- Canvas icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
- Code icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
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