Obsidianis a note-taking app that stores everything in plain text documents on your computerbut that’s just the beginning.

But where things get really wild are the plugins.

I’m including links to the Github page for all of these plugins, mostly for reference.

It’s a kanban board in an Obsidian window

This is why I like theKanbanplugin for Obsidian.

With this, I can create Kanban boards right in Obsidian.

This is just a great implementation of a useful toolone that lives right alongside your other notes.

There’s a toolbar at the top of the window with standard formatting tools: undo, redo, headlines, bold, italic, strikethrough, underline, highlight, and more.

I use this to organize my entire writing workflow, from brainstorming to writing to editing to invoicing.

I can’t recommend it enough.

Ignore markdown with this toolbar

Obsidian is built aroundMarkdown, a simple way of formatting text files.

The Obsidian command palette here as “Copy as HTML” as an option. You can see that keyboard shortcut is also assigned.

I, personally, love this: It’s a faster way to add simple formatting to documents.

It’s not for everyone, however, which is whereEditing toolbarcomes in.

This simple extension adds a formatting toolbar to the top of every text window with common formatting options.

It’s a look into my journal! A year before I wrote this article I stayed in a cute BNB.

There’s no wrong answers here.

If the app in question doesn’t support Markdown, that’s going to be togch.

I use theExtract URLextension for this.

You could use this to make your own read it later service, if you wanted to.

TheJournal reviewmakes this process even better.

This plugin makes that possible.