Trends in Obsidian as Determined By 15 Most Downloaded Plugins

What are the most popular and trending plugins in Obsidian in the top 15 downloads?

🌿Annette Raffan 🌼
Obsidian Observer

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Here’s a list of the top 15 plugins by download from the Obsidian Community plugins function in the Obsidian settings. I’ve also put links to all the documentation sites — handy right?

This post has a brief overview of each plugin, whether I use it or not and then …

here’s the juicy bit, by looking at the percentage increases of the number of downloads over the last few days, we can tell what people are up to in Obsidian!

Being the top downloaded plugins, these top plugins are some of the work horses of Obsidian — changes here reflect the some of the more consistent use cases because they are based on tried and tested additions to the standard install.

(Numbers last updated: 01.06.23; plus 3 day percentage increase)

1. Excalidraw (828,742; +0.9%) — Zsolt Viczian

“Edit and view Excalidraw drawings.”

It’s no wonder the legendary drawing software ‘Excalidraw’ is in number 1 spot. This one is hugely popular, very easy to use and makes very nice, professional looking drawings. And it uses a…

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🌿Annette Raffan 🌼
Obsidian Observer

📚 Postgraduate researcher figuring out the researcher life one method at a time, introspective, plant person.