Obsidian 1.0

Posted by steveylang
Nov 3, 2022 at 05:16 PM

My experience with the community plugins that are available inside the app has been great, no significant bugs or crashes. I’ve never installed any plugins manually downloaded from Github, preferring to wait until they get tested somewhat.

Any piece of of software shouldn’t rely on user-created plugins for core functionalities (someone else had commented), but the Obsidian plugin system and user community has enabled so many new features that would be outside the core app. It’s great to be able to really customize the app for your own needs.

I have around 20 plugins enabled, and performance of the app is absolutely great. Of course I try to disable and/or delete plugins I’m not using, but the main hindrance of unneeded plugins is some take longer startup time than others (there’s an option to show plugin startup time which is handy to weed out any offenders.)

MadaboutDana wrote:
Agreed; I’m always wary of plugins, and try to install no more than 3 in
>any given plugin-supporting app. But Obsidian’s core plugins are already
>more than sufficient for most purposes. And the quality of some of the
>“community” plugins is remarkably high.