Posts on obsidian

Obsidian's Keychain gives plugins one shared, device-local place to keep API keys instead of plaintext in data.json. Here's how it works, what it fixes, and where it still trips people up.

Obsidian's native Quick Capture for iOS 26 lets you jot a note from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or Shortcuts without waiting for your vault to load. Here's how Locations, templates, and widgets fit together.

A .canvas file is just JSON with an open spec. Here's how the format works and how to build a canvas from your notes with a short Node script instead of dragging cards by hand.

Linter is Prettier for your vault. Here's how to set it up safely, which YAML rules make your Bases and Dataview queries trustworthy, and how to opt notes out.

Obsidian 1.14 adds a native kanban layout to Bases. Here's how to build a board where dragging a card rewrites a property, where it beats the Kanban plugin, and where it still falls short.

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.

Obsidian 1.12 ships an official command line interface. Here's how to use it to capture notes, query tasks and Bases, and run vault health checks from shell scripts.

Bookmarks is a core plugin most people use to pin three notes and forget about. It can pin saved searches, headings, blocks, and whole tab groups, which makes the hand-maintained dashboard note redundant.

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.