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Plugins

Premium Plugins are one of three features that need a trial or a paid plan. See Licensing.

A plugin is a view over the notes you already have. It does not store data of its own: a Kanban board is your notes arranged by a front-matter field, and a task list is the checkboxes already in them. Turn a plugin off and nothing is lost, because there was never anything but Markdown underneath.

Screenshot plugins-sidebar.png

The plugins sidebar tab listing the built-in plugins with enable toggles.

Plugin What it shows
Daily Notes A dated journal
Kanban A board built from a status field
Board An Obsidian-Kanban-compatible board
Tasks Every checkbox in the vault
Recent Recently modified notes

The puzzle-piece tab in the sidebar lists what is available. Toggle a plugin on and it appears as a tab alongside your notes.

Screenshot plugin-scope-picker.png

The plugin scope picker, choosing which folder a plugin reads from.

Each plugin is pointed at a folder rather than the whole vault, so a board built from Projects/ is not confused by everything in Archive/.

A plugin view can be a workspace home page, so switching to Work can open its board rather than a note.

Plugins are Markdown files with a front-matter definition — no compiling, no installing a toolchain. → Writing a plugin

Documented against Shady Notes 4.1.19 · release notes