nicolas.lienart

Loving Obsidian ever since 2022

Over 3,900 notes on knowledge base

Novel word count - See your volt growing
Templater - Create templates with shortcuts and placeholders
Settings Search - Add a search engine in settings
Simple CanvaSearch - Search text in canvas (why isn’t that a core feature?)
Recent Files - Pane with your last viewed files
Image Toolkit - Viewing an image with advanced features
Another Quick Switcher - Supports diacritics and customization of search results
Image Captions - Add captions to images
Imgur - Automatic upload of pasted images to Imgur instead of inside Obsidian (bloating Sync)
Command Alias - Give alias to commands for quick triggering
Copy Block Link - Get links to blocks and headings from right click menu.

Backlinks (core) - Most important feature IMHO
Canvas (core) - Make connections visually between your notes
Slash commands (core) - Like Notion slash commands
Command palette (core) - like slash but with a keyboard shortcut
Note composer (core) - Merge duplicated notes or create new ones
Sync (core, paid) - Sync on multiple devices. A must-have, install and forget plugin

Loved Notion (awesome UX) and The Brain (awesome for making connections) but they were too commercial and SaaS oriented IMHO.
Obsidian was very limited at that time.
Impressed by RoamResearch, but it was costly and SaaS oriented. Tried TiddlyWiki, open-source and was promising but for small knowledge bases, didn’t grow well and limited for multimedia.
Even started making my own piece of software with some computer engineering classmates, but was too demanding.
Saw how far Obsidian got improved in the meantime.
Happy user since 2022