The Calendar and Periodic note plugins are essential to my Obsidian experience, and they are used by over a million obsidian users. These plugins were abandoned by the original developer years ago, and in recent official obsidian updates it has started to accrue some devastating bugs. In my case, I cannot get the plugin to recognize sunday as the first day of the week in the calendar plugin.
Proposed solution
I believe that since these plugins are already a better version of obsidians “daily note” plugin, Obsidian should just expand this already existing core plugin to usurp the functions of the previously mentioned community plugins periodic notes and calendar). This way the Obsidian staff could account for bugs like these in their official updates.
If this were to happen the staff could also implement features to these plugins like: creating yearly, quarterly, and monthly notes from the calendar plugin, just like how you already could with daily and weekly notes.
Current workaround
My current workaround has been to stop using the calendar to create notes. I now use the homepage community plugin to create my weekly notes.
Totally agree with this. Maybe one day it’ll happen. In the meantime, the “Journals” plugin is pretty good for covering both the calendar and periodic notes functions – and as a bonus you can have multiple parallel notebooks!
I feel exactly the same - I use both daily and feel uneasy about this not being a core functionality.
Even though I have not had any issues yet personally
I would love it if those plugins were grandfathered into core plugins by the obsidian team!
Also something akin to full calendar that can sync to my email and holidays etc. This would mostly make obsidian my one stop shop for managing my time and tasks
This is probably the biggest risk of Obsidian. A plugin becomes enormously popular and important to the workflow of hundreds of thousands of people, but the original author no longer users it/moves onto another app/becomes incapacitated.
It would be ideal if the most popular plugins were adopted by the core team, but given the team’s small size that doesn’t seem practical.
At least with Calendar and Periodic Notes the developer (Liam) is now part of the core Obsidian team. That said, I would welcome a native Calendar plugin.
