Obsidian Plugins Review — 19
This week, in my Obsidian Plugins Review:
- Attachment Management
- Pronunciation Trumpet
- Adamantine Pick
- Auto Hide Cursor
- Surfing Key
- CSS Editor
- Auto Template Trigger
- Link with alias
- Mood Tracker
Attachment Management
This plugin allows you to better organize your note’s attachments. You can set the attachment path and attachment name using variables, allowing you to, for example, add the date to the name, or the note name to the path.
Pronunciation Trumpet
Select a word in your note, and this plugin will pronounce it in one of these English accents: US, UK, UK-RP, UK-Yorkshire, Irish, Scot, US-South or Jamaica. The pronunciations are from the wordreference.com database.
Adamantine Pick
This plugin renders Pikchr diagrams in your notes. Pikchr allows you to create diagrams for technical documentation using markdown.
Example:
```pikchr
arrow right 200% "Markdown" "Source"
box rad 10px "Markdown" "Formatter" "(markdown.c)" fit
arrow right 200% "HTML+SVG" "Output"
arrow <-> down 70% from last box.s
box same "Pikchr" "Formatter" "(pikchr.c)" fit
```
Object types:
``` pikchr
AllObjects: [
# First row of objects
box "box"
box rad 10px "box (with" "rounded" "corners)" at 1in right of previous
circle "circle" at 1in right of previous
ellipse "ellipse" at 1in right of previous
# second row of objects
OVAL1: oval "oval" at 1in below first box
oval "(tall &" "thin)" "oval" width OVAL1.height height OVAL1.width at 1in right of previous
cylinder "cylinder" at 1in right of previous
file "file" at 1in right of previous
# third row shows line-type objects
dot "dot" above at 1in below first oval
line right from 1.8cm right of previous "lines" above
arrow right from 1.8cm right of previous "arrows" above
spline from 1.8cm right of previous go right .15 then .3 heading 30 then .5 heading 160 then .4 heading 20 then right .15
"splines" at 3rd vertex of previous
# The third vertex of the spline is not actually on the drawn
# curve. The third vertex is a control point. To see its actual
# position, uncomment the following line:
#dot color red at 3rd vertex of previous spline
# Draw various lines below the first line
line dashed right from 0.3cm below start of previous line
line dotted right from 0.3cm below start of previous
line thin right from 0.3cm below start of previous
line thick right from 0.3cm below start of previous
# Draw arrows with different arrowhead configurations below
# the first arrow
arrow <- right from 0.4cm below start of previous arrow
arrow <-> right from 0.4cm below start of previous
# Draw splines with different arrowhead configurations below
# the first spline
spline same from .4cm below start of first spline ->
spline same from .4cm below start of previous <-
spline same from .4cm below start of previous <->
] # end of AllObjects
# Label the whole diagram
text "Examples Of Pikchr Objects" big bold at .8cm above north of AllObjects
```
``` pikchr
O: text "DREAMS" color grey
circle rad 0.9 at 0.6 above O thick color red
text "INEXPENSIVE" big bold at 0.9 above O color red
circle rad 0.9 at 0.6 heading 120 from O thick color green
text "FAST" big bold at 0.9 heading 120 from O color green
circle rad 0.9 at 0.6 heading -120 from O thick color blue
text "HIGH" big bold "QUALITY" big bold at 0.9 heading -120 from O color blue
text "EXPENSIVE" at 0.55 below O color cyan
text "SLOW" at 0.55 heading -60 from O color magenta
text "POOR" "QUALITY" at 0.55 heading 60 from O color gold
```
Auto Hide Cursor
If you’re a fan of focus mode, this plugin is definitely for you. It hides the cursor after you scroll up or down, and shows it again when you move it.
Surfing Key
This plugin allows you to control Obsidian using only your keyboard. First, you have to assign an hotkey to Suring key: Surfing Obsidian in Obsidian's settings. When you press the hotkey all visible elements of Obsidian will have a string associated. All you have to do is insert the corresponding string to what you want to click.
CSS Editor
Allows you to edit your CSS snippets in .obsidian/snippets/ directory in Obsidian. The command Edit CSS Snippetwill open a modal window to select the CSS file to open. You can also create or delete CSS files with the commands Create CSS Snippetand Delete CSS Snippet.
Auto Template Trigger
This plugin will prompt you to select a template whenever you create a new note. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with Templater, you have to enable the core Templates plugin. If that’s fine to you, it’s a very handy plugin.
Link with alias
This plugin allows you to quickly add an alias to a note when adding a display text to a link. You just need to add the display text and run the command Create link with alias.
Mood Tracker
This plugin allows you to track your mood and visualize your mood history on a graph.
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