Very cool. Shame the website is dark mode only which only makes it harder to read for people with astigmatism.
That's because Obsidian is black. But we're planning to add light mode in the near future :)
The Future of Obsidian Plugins
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Re: The Future of Obsidian Plugins
#32I want to use Obsidian... but I won't as long as it's not open source. I know I can keep all my files as plain text, but that's not enough for me. Using a KB on a daily basis shapes my workflows and having to change that from one day to another (e.g., because maybe Obsidian changes in a way I don't like) is too much for me. I could already handle all my plain txt files using simply the file system, but of course I would prefer a KB program. It's a shame because Obsidian looks great.
Re: The Future of Obsidian Plugins
#33What I would like is that they made it easier to install plugins locally. Should really just be copy pasting into a folder. I would change it myself, were it not for the fact that Obsidian is proprietary software. Time someone builds a compatible clone.
It literally is just pasting into the .obsidian/plugins/ directory...
Re: The Future of Obsidian Plugins
#34What I would like is that they made it easier to install plugins locally. Should really just be copy pasting into a folder. I would change it myself, were it not for the fact that Obsidian is proprietary software. Time someone builds a compatible clone.
That's exactly how it works. A plugin is just a folder that you can copy into the .obsidian/plugins folder within your vault.
Re: The Future of Obsidian Plugins
#35I want to use Obsidian... but I won't as long as it's not open source. I know I can keep all my files as plain text, but that's not enough for me. Using a KB on a daily basis shapes my workflows and having to change that from one day to another (e.g., because maybe Obsidian changes in a way I don't like) is too much for me. I could already handle all my plain txt files using simply the file system, but of course I wo…
Trusted source > open-source
As long as it's trusted, there is no lock-in, and the model supports maintaining the software, what do you have to lose?
Re: The Future of Obsidian Plugins
#36For those not aware, it has basically been impossible to submit new plugins due to the manual review (and how easy/fun it is to write a plugin with AI). The developer community was becoming increasingly frustrated, and the team was burning out under the load. So congrats to the team! This relieves a huge scaling bottleneck. It has been really cool to see how y'all build and scale.
Got any cool plugins you recommend? I'm finally getting comfortable after switching from OneNote and getting sync set up.
Re: The Future of Obsidian Plugins
#37What I would like is that they made it easier to install plugins locally. Should really just be copy pasting into a folder. I would change it myself, were it not for the fact that Obsidian is proprietary software. Time someone builds a compatible clone.
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Re: The Future of Obsidian Plugins
#38For those not aware, it has basically been impossible to submit new plugins due to the manual review (and how easy/fun it is to write a plugin with AI). The developer community was becoming increasingly frustrated, and the team was burning out under the load. So congrats to the team! This relieves a huge scaling bottleneck. It has been really cool to see how y'all build and scale.
Got any cool plugins you recommend? I'm finally getting comfortable after switching from OneNote and getting sync set up.
Smart Connections for related notes surface/embeddings
Re: The Future of Obsidian Plugins
#39As long as this doesn't reduce the availability of the plugins (for me in particular selfhosted-livesync) this sounds good.
I wonder if there would be a role for AI for these automated reviews. Seems like a promising usecase for it.
Re: The Future of Obsidian Plugins
#40Obsidian CEO here. We've been working for nearly a year to launch this new Community site and review system. I'm very excited about this first version but there are many more improvements to come. I've tried to be exhaustive with the blog post, FAQs, and next steps on our roadmap, but I am sure I forgot some things, so feel free to ask! This has been an incredibly challenging project for a number of reasons. We're on…
Fantastic work from the Obsidian team! I'll gladly continue to be a Obsidian Sync user and can't wait to feel more comfortable using community plugins. Seriously excellent work from y'all.