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Obsidian File Recovery: The Undo Button You Forgot You Had thumbnail
obsidianSep 29, 2026· 5 min
Obsidian File Recovery: The Undo Button You Forgot You Had
Obsidian quietly snapshots your notes every few minutes. Here's how File recovery works, how to restore a lost paragraph, and why it still isn't a backup.
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Obsidian Attachments: Take Control of Where Your Files Actually Go thumbnail
obsidianSep 18, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Attachments: Take Control of Where Your Files Actually Go
Obsidian drops pasted images wherever its default setting says, which for most vaults means the root folder. Here is how the attachment location and link format settings interact, and how to clean up the pile you already have.
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Semantic Search in Obsidian: What Embeddings Find That Keywords Miss thumbnail
obsidianSep 8, 2026· 4 min
Semantic Search in Obsidian: What Embeddings Find That Keywords Miss
Obsidian's search operators are precise, but they only find notes when you remember the words you used.
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Obsidian URI: Your Vault Has an API You're Not Using thumbnail
obsidianSep 1, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian URI: Your Vault Has an API You're Not Using
Obsidian ships with a custom URI protocol that lets scripts, browsers, and phone shortcuts read and write your vault without you touching the app.
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DataviewJS: The Escape Hatch When Bases and DQL Run Out thumbnail
obsidianAug 28, 2026· 3 min
DataviewJS: The Escape Hatch When Bases and DQL Run Out
Bases handles most vault dashboards now, and Dataview's query language covers the rest. DataviewJS is what you reach for when neither can express the thing…
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Writing an Obsidian Plugin Is Smaller Than You Think thumbnail
obsidianAug 25, 2026· 3 min
Writing an Obsidian Plugin Is Smaller Than You Think
Most people patch around a missing Obsidian feature with a Templater script and a CSS snippet. The plugin API is often the shorter path, and the surface…
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Your Obsidian Plugin List Is a Supply Chain thumbnail
obsidianJul 31, 2026· 4 min
Your Obsidian Plugin List Is a Supply Chain
Obsidian's 2026 Community directory added automated scans and safety scorecards for every plugin version.
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Obsidian QuickAdd: Capture, Templates, and Macros Without Leaving Your Keyboard thumbnail
obsidianJul 28, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian QuickAdd: Capture, Templates, and Macros Without Leaving Your Keyboard
QuickAdd turns Obsidian into a keyboard-driven capture machine. Here is how its Captures, Templates, and Macros actually work, with copy-paste examples.
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Obsidian Bases: Native Database Views Without Dataview thumbnail
obsidianJul 3, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian Bases: Native Database Views Without Dataview
Bases is Obsidian's built-in core plugin for turning notes and their properties into live tables and cards.
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Obsidian for Developers: Make Your Vault Work Like Your Codebase thumbnail
obsidianJun 30, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian for Developers: Make Your Vault Work Like Your Codebase
Obsidian is plain-text markdown all the way down, which means the same tools you use on code work on your notes.
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