avatarNuno Campos

Summary

The web content provides a review of several new Obsidian plugins designed to enhance note-taking by automating link creation, generating glossaries, laying out images, gamifying the vault with achievements, and creating an overview of projects.

Abstract

The article reviews a selection of Obsidian plugins that offer various functionalities to improve the user experience within the Obsidian note-taking application. The "Smart Links" plugin allows for the automatic creation of links based on custom regular expression rules, such as linking to phabricator tasks. The "Auto Glossary" plugin can generate a glossary or index of files within the user's vault. "Image Layouts" introduces different layout options for displaying images from the vault or external sources. "Obsidian Achievements" adds a gamification element to note-taking by providing achievements to motivate users. Lastly, "Project Garden" offers a visual representation of projects and their tasks in a card format. The article also includes a call to action for readers to subscribe to the author's Medium stories and consider a cost-effective AI service alternative to ChatGPT Plus.

Opinions

  • The author, Nuno Campos, seems to endorse the use of these Obsidian plugins to streamline and enhance the note-taking process.
  • The inclusion of images and examples for each plugin suggests a positive view of their usability and practicality.
  • The mention of a special offer for an AI service, ZAI.chat, indicates the author's belief in its value and cost-effectiveness compared to ChatGPT Plus.
  • The article encourages reader engagement by inviting them to subscribe to the author's Medium page for updates on future stories.

Obsidian Plugin Review — Smart Links, Auto Glossary, Image Layouts, Achievements, Project Garden

In this review, we’ll go through a couple more new Obsidian plugins that allow you to automatically create links from strings, create folder indexes, layout image galleries, create projects overview page, and gamify your vault.

Obsidian Smart Links

This plugin lets you create regular expression rules to create links from strings automatically.

For example, when you install the plugin, there’s already an example rule created for phabricator:

Smart Links rules. Image by Nuno Campos

This means that when you enter T12345, it will display a link to https://phabricator.wikipedia.org/T12345in reading mode.

Smart Links generated link. Image by Nuno Campos

Obsidian Auto Glossary

This plugin will create a glossary (list of ![[file]]), an index (list of [[file]]), or a glossary with an index from the files you want.

Auto Glossary options. Image by Nuno Campos

Obsidian Image Layouts

https://github.com/vertis/obsidian-image-layouts

As the name says, this plugin gives a couple of layouts to display your images, whether from your vault or external images.

```image-layout-a
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1671514187753-fce32cc8b3ec?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDJ8Ym84alFLVGFFMFl8fGVufDB8fHx8&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1517345438041-cf88a04b4689?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDF8Ym84alFLVGFFMFl8fGVufDB8fHx8&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
```
Image Layout a. Image by Nuno Campos
```image-layout-b
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1669817683129-869ca3c0bd3d?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDd8Ym84alFLVGFFMFl8fGVufDB8fHx8&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1577611473531-542453710a08?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDV8Ym84alFLVGFFMFl8fGVufDB8fHx8&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
```
Image Layout b. Image by Nuno Campos
```image-layout-f
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1667926941824-69bc44f9f873?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDI1fGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1668343291760-88ddbb64fc8e?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDI0fGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://plus.unsplash.com/premium_photo-1667668669560-2bd9e70ebbcb?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDI3fGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1667248659708-65c5f37a0605?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDIzfGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
```
Image Layout f. Image by Nuno Campos
```image-layout-masonry-3
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1670336815588-d6004bc0d4ac?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDM0fGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1671038003907-dcb7673fd8d1?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDM1fGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1668272886375-f5c579f8d8b4?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDMzfGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://plus.unsplash.com/premium_photo-1670772729425-6c2292735d63?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDM4fGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://plus.unsplash.com/premium_photo-1670169415472-974947157fd8?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDM3fGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1669666808012-3e120637a62f?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDQxfGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1669745477474-d333c88530a5?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDQwfGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1670968982569-81f78c8e841d?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDQ4fGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1670190895791-4b6130f95fc2?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHx0b3BpYy1mZWVkfDQ2fGJvOGpRS1RhRTBZfHxlbnwwfHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=600&q=60)
```
Image Layout masonry 3. Image by Nuno Campos

Obsidian Achievements

This plugin allows you to “gamify” your vault, by creating achievements:

Achievements list. Image by Nuno Campos
Achievement completed. Image by Nuno Campos
Achievement completed. Image by Nuno Campos

Obsidian Project Garden

This plugin allows you to see your projects on one page as cards, your project garden. It will also display your project's incompleted tasks.

Project Garden. Image by Nuno Campos

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