2021-05-15: Better Footnotes, Plugin Synergy, & an Electron Update
New showcases, typography convos & lots of great knowledge management discussions. New plugins like incremental writing, inline variable support, & OCR support via Templater.
Governments
Eight ancient government systems from beyond Europe
2021-05-08: Templater, Syncthing & Requested Plugins
Featuring the Excalidraw, Templater, Kindle, Dataview, Kanban, Tasks, Buttons, Leaflet & Comments plugins. Also tips for mobile, feature requests, & more!
🎓 Heating Oil Fraud, Ancient Fire & Ice Volcanoes
Micro-reviews from my recently-read pile: ancient marriage politics, Mediterranean dyes, Hittite architecture & whales throughout the ages.
2021-05-01: Showcases, QoL Improvements, & Theme Updates
The Community Talks are ramping up, there were lots of great little plugin updates especially in the "importing things as markdown" space, and we're starting to see some organized writeups about workflows that utilize dataview and templater.
Early Pastoral Economies of the Eurasian Plains
Debates about horse domestication
Lamps
Stones, Moons, & Lies: Lamps & Other Subversions
2021-04-24: Inline Dataview, Showcases, & a Markdown GUI.
Big Obsidian updates for the API, search, and tasks. Lots of Dataview improvements, some nice Spaced Repetition options, and tools to help developers. CSS tips & PKM discussions.
Masonry
Stone is no defense & the bravery of horses
2021-04-17: RSS Tips, Self-Publish, & Debug Tools
The Dataview plugin is getting a lot of attention. Plugin developers got some nifty debugging features for mobile. We discussed resonance calendars and task management, and surfaced some useful RSS tricks for keeping up with Obsidian news if this newsletter is too infrequent for you.