OnlyOffice lets you create and edit Word, Powerpoint, Exel and PDFs natively inside Obsidian. For free!
(Needs OnlyOffice document server running in Docker Desktop.) Setup is explained.
You can find it here: https://github.com/PixeroJan/obsidian-onlyoffice
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I cant see this in community plugins?
It is not there yet, but you can download it from Github through the link.
New release that has the files outside the zip file. Only the assets are now in the zip file.
If I install one of these on my NAS (UNRAID.net) does the Obsidian need to be on the UNRAID as well (I have that too).
Maybe I should start with the one with 95 million installs ?
which is this one - https://hub.docker.com/r/onlyoffice/documentserver/
does it work with .doc files ? (the older .docx filetype).
Can you add some screenshots to show what editing Word and Excel documents looks like in Obsidian ?
I havent run it on a RAID so I dont know how that would work.
I have it running on docker desktop on my Windows laptop just fine.
Just install Docker desktop and run the start-onlyoffice.bat it will install only office and set it all up automagically.
Here are some screenshots from inside Obsidian showing docx/doc, xlsx, pptx and pdf editing.
Thanks for the screenshots. Looks great.
Is the information in the .doc .docx and the .pdf accessible to searching within Obsidian ?
Does omnisearch index it ?
Can I link to a particular section of .docx file from a .md file ?
I take it this is desktop only.
I’ll have to investigate if this would help tie my 3CX PBX phone system with Obsidian.
Are there any Obsidian specific options like embedding Obsidian content into a Word file ?
Yes, desktop only.
The other things I dont know. There is no Obsidian specifics inside OnlyOffice since you are running their document server. I guess that would require a plugin for Only office but that is beyond what I set out to do with the plugin.
Success
That being said, OnlyOffice Document Server via Windows Docker Desktop feels unsustainable.
I think it should be possible use the OnlyOffice document server I already have running on my UNRAID.
Do you think the setup can be tweaked to work with that container ?
A great feature of this .docx support is a document in obsidian … that actually prints well
I dont have a NAS but Yes — you can run the OnlyOffice Docker server on your UNRAID NAS, and Obsidian does not need to run on UNRAID.
Obsidian just needs network access to the OnlyOffice server URL on the NAS.
Make sure these are set correctly:
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Same JWT secret in both the container and the plugin settings
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CORS/iframe headers allow
app://obsidian.md -
NAS IP/port is reachable from the machine running Obsidian (e.g.,
http://NAS-IP:8080)
You need to create a document of some sort and save it into a PDF. (You can do that in Only Office) Then you can open and edit it in OnlyOffice. If you have another PDF plugin you might have to right click and choose Open with Only Office.