about

oblogger is still in beta and will update frequently!

oblogger is a side-panel plugin for Obsidian which focuses on two primary core features:

1. a tag explorer panel that lets you choose the tag groups you want to display as well as some pre-defined groups such as dailies, recent documents, files, and all of your untagged documents (these pre-defined groups can be hidden)
2. a helpful modal for logging information to a new document's frontmatter

features

• tag explorer
  • custom note icons using frontmatter
  • support for obsidian bookmarks
    • bookmarked notes/files will be denoted with a bookmark icon
    • bookmarked notes/files will appear at the top of their respectve group
  • recent list
    • status indicator reveals notes that haven't been tagged in any way
    • can cycle between 5, 10, and 15 recents in list
  • non-md file list
    • organized automatically regardless of folder
    • different sort groups
  • daily notes section for sorting notes tagged "#daily" by year/month/day
    • "#daily" can be changed to any tag you'd like to assoicate with daily notes
  • untagged note list
  • custom tag groups let you add any of your tags as a group
    • supports tag nesting
    • supports multiple tags per file and multiple files per tag
    • supports tags in body and frontmatter
  • use a photo as an avatar to add some personality to the side panel
    • default avatar will show first letter of vault
• logger modal
  • custom logging path (does not support logging to root of vault)
  • easy frontmatter generation
    • add new fields
    • suggester popup based on previously logged data

roadmap

• version 2.0 and beyond
  • "scheduled" logging
  • "session" logging
  • continuous logging
  • rich editor functionality in logger body field
  • multi-select
  • expanded frontmatter editing

faq

• why can't I rename notes/files from the side panel?
  • because it's hard :(. if you figure out how to link into the FileExplorer core plugin in a clean way, please let us know!
• why can't I log to the root vault folder?
  • because you didn't eat your vegetables
• how do I remove the avatar picture?
  • you have to go to your data.json for oblogger and remove the avatarPath setting. sowwy :( (feature incoming)
• can I at least hide my avatar?
  • yup! click on the nav bar gear. you can hide all sorts of stuff.
• how do i set a custom document icon?
  • add icon: "..." to a file's frontmatter. the ... can be almost anything from https://lucide.dev eg: try adding icon: "dog" to a file :)
• I created a daily for yesterday and now my dailies are out of order?
  • by default, we use the file.ctime to sort the dailies. However, you can override the date by adding either created: YYYY-MM-DD or day: YYYY-MM-DD to the frontmatter.
• how can I give you guys money for all your hard work?
  • thank you so much! see buy me a coffee

how to build

npm run dev for debug and watching

npm run build for release

acknowledgements

we want to thank the obsidian plugin-dev discord server for all the help they gave us when we felt stuck. if you're reading this and working on a theme, plugin, or just want to engage more with the obsidian community, do yourself a favor and join that discord channel.

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