If you're enjoying Obsidian 1.11 consider giving us a review on the App Store or Google Play. As a small team you have no idea how much motivation it gives us to keep improving the app 🥰

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Last night, I fired up ChatGPT and quickly vibe-coded a Python script that recursively consolidates all ~500 .md files in my Obsidian vault into one, and strips out all non-semantic elements (such as callout formatting, internal links, transclusions, and attachments) using just enough RegEx voodoo. I then created a dedicated GPT and uploaded the resulting ~50MB file as its knowledge base. I also primed the model to look for answers only within the file and say candidly if it couldn’t find any (rather than hallucinating one). I can now trivially refresh the knowledge base by running the script again if I make enough changes to my notes in the future. File generation takes milliseconds. Within less than an hour of tinkering from start to finish, I was able to engage with my vault like never before. No API needed, no extra cost beyond the OpenAI subscription, and no privacy breach like existing Obsidian LLM plugins incur. The trick is to really streamline the file to keep only the semantically meaningful structure, like # headers and styling, so the LLM’s token parsing and chunking is most effective. Next step might be to build a plugin to generate that consolidated output directly from Obsidian, with optional filters for certain tags, properties, or folders. I love how I was able to use the LLM to refine the idea first, then generate the code, ingest the resulting file, and converse with my notes. Proper Swiss Army multitool.

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give me one TINY thing you want fixed or improved in Obsidian — the smaller the better, I'm going on a paper cuts rampage

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In Obsidian 1.11 you can switch sidebar views in one gesture if you continue to hold down, then let go on the view you want to switch to.

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Obsidian 1.11 is now available for desktop and mobile! The new mobile design gives more space to your notes, and helps you quickly navigate your vault. You can now instantly access Obsidian from your lock screen, home screen, control center, Shortcuts, and Siri.

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Claude Code will be working on making Linear Issues accessible in Obsidian mobile while I sleep https://github.com/caseybecking/obsidian-linear-plugin/issues/4

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Obsidian 1.11.4 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

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Ok, I've given this more thought and also considered the existing requests on forum.obsidian.md to balance my with popular demand. ## TL;DR I'd love to see a native mechanism to pull front matter properties into the body of notes. I feel like Bases have made front matter properties so much more semantically relevant — we can now leverage meaningful data about a note stored in a front matter property, such as a short abstract, to be displayed in a table-style Base alongside each filename. Amazingly useful for MOCs, for instance. ## Problem Bases have exacerbated the following tension: if I store more meaningful data in front matter properties, they still won't show in the body of notes. Duplicating it inside the body would be poor practice. Ideally, we would pull from the front matter properties into the note dynamically; for example, to display the "abstract" property in a callout at the top of the note, or assemble a citation from author, year, and date fields stored in front matter (for bibliographic notes). ## Current workarounds (using a date field as an example) 1. Dataview: Date: `= this.date ?? "Unassigned"`. Downsides: non-core plugin, doesn't work with Publish. 2. Templater: Date: <% tp.frontmatter.date %>. non-core plugin, doesn't work with Publish, not dynamic. 3. Native: {{date}}: not dynamic, doesn't work with Publish. 4. Bases: file.path == this.file.path. Won't simply insert the property within the flow of text due to table, list, or card formatting of the output. Doesn't work with Publish (though on the roadmap). ## Proposal Either extend the current moustache syntax to all front matter properties (e.g., {{this.file.date}}), or allow for a new "Raw" Bases view type that outputs values with zero formatting overhead, so it can be inserted within a line of text by simply transcluding the Base (e.g., "this note was originally written on ![[related.base]]"). ## Downside I can see syntax like {{this.file.date}} not being Markdown-compliant in the sense that other parsers won't dynamically replace it with data in view mode. But the data that this syntax is calling still exists within the note, just in the front matter above, so no semantic information is lost if the note gets detached/orphaned and migrates to a non-Obsidian system. ## Related This is related to https://forum.obsidian.md/t/show-display-embed-the-note-properties-within-the-note-body/71004 but back then Bases did not exist as a mechanism for filtering for notes, pulling static properties, and creating dynamic properties with formulas.

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Obsidian 1.11.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

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what's one improvement you'd like to see in Obsidian in 2026?

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Obsidian 1.11.1 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

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All I want for Christmas is bases, canvases, and a customizable login page on Obsidian Publish Peace on earth and goodwill towards men would be nice too, but they pale in comparison if I'm being totally honest

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Obsidian 1.11.0 (early access) introduces widgets and a new mobile design. You can now instantly access Obsidian from your lock screen, home screen, control center, Shortcuts, and Siri. The new design gives more space to your notes, and helps you quickly navigate your vault.

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If you've been waiting to buy Obsidian merch, now's the time. Our friends at Cotton Bureau have a sale from today until December 1. Free shipping in the US, or 50% off international shipping using the code THANKYOU25. https://obsidian.md/softwear

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Obsidian 1.10.6 is now available to all for desktop and mobile with lots of small bug fixes. - Fixed external links overflowing in property editor. - Right-to-left languages: Fixed cursor positioning incorrectly when clicking at the end of a line. Also fixed several regressions with the interface, including the position of the calendar icon on date inputs. - Bases: Fixed shift-clicking in table view sometimes creating an incorrect selection. - Bases: Fixed formula suggestions being cut off. - Bases: Table view now supports pasting single-column data (e.g. from Excel or Google Sheets) into multiple rows when multiple rows are selected. - Bases: Filters menu now displays the correct property type when defining an equality filter (eg. `x is y`). - Bases: Fixed table view not responding to clicks after creating a selection with Shift-click. - Bases: Fixed items in the Sort menu appearing incorrectly when dragging to reorder. - Bases: Fixed filter menu going off screen when filter contained a long text property or long list property value. - Bases: Fixed formula autocomplete results getting cut off in the Filters menu. - Bases: Fixed formula editor not working in pop-out windows. - Bases: Creating a new note with "+" now automatically adds properties defined in "has property" filters. - Bases: Fixed memory leak with the formula editor. - Canvas: Fixed YouTube embeds not loading.

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