New Plugin Immich Journal: insert photos from your self-hosted Immich into daily notes

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Is this project open source? Yes
Is this project completely free? Yes
Is this project vibe-coded beyond the author’s ability to comprehend how it works? No
Community Directory: Immich Journal

I recently switched from Apple Photos to a self-hosted Immich server, and I wanted a simple way to enrich my daily-note journal entries with the photos I took that day, without manually exporting, resizing and linking anything. That turned into Immich Journal, now available in the Community Plugins directory.

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  • From a daily note, one command opens a picker showing every photo taken on that note’s date. You multi-select, insert, and the photos land at the cursor as resized local copies (default max edge 800 px, vault-friendly), each with an optional template-based caption from the Immich metadata and a link back to the original in Immich.

  • Desktop and mobile support (works fine when the server is only reachable via Tailscale/VPN), timezone-safe day matching for travel photos, duplicate-free re-inserts, fully templatable markdown output.

Repo (MIT), with full setup guide and troubleshooting: GitHub - fcandi/obsidian-immich-journal: Insert photos from your self-hosted Immich server into Obsidian daily notes - resized, captioned, linked back to Immich. · GitHub

Feedback, bug reports and translation fixes are very welcome. I’d love to hear how it behaves on other people’s setups.Yeah.

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New version 0.2.0:

  • Insert position: photos can now go at the cursor, at the top of the note (below frontmatter), or at the bottom. Great if you want a consistent photo section in your daily notes.
  • One embed setting instead of three. Honest confession: the old settings (embed style + “link to Immich” toggle + caption template) confused even me. It’s now a single dropdown: Markdown linked to Immich, Markdown without link, Wikilink, or Custom template. The presets just work, captions come from your Immich photo descriptions automatically.
  • Custom template mode for the tinkerers: the editor appears right inside the setting, with all metadata variables available ({{description}}, {{time}}, {{city}}, {{people}}, {{camera}}, …).
  • Existing settings migrate automatically, your notes will render exactly as before.

GitHub: GitHub - fcandi/obsidian-immich-journal: Insert photos from your self-hosted Immich server into Obsidian daily notes - resized, captioned, linked back to Immich. · GitHub