⭐ I Tier List Ranked All 30 Obsidian Core Plugins

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

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💡 The Big Idea: Not All Core Plugins Are Created Equal.

Obsidian ships with a bunch of core plugins, but some are definitely more useful than others.

This week, I completed a full tier list ranking of all 30 core plugins.

My tier list rankings for all 30 Obsidian Core plugins.

If you don't recognize the icons, it's because I made them all myself 😂

Here's the full breakdown of my Core plugin tier lists rankings:

S Tier - Bases, Canvas
A Tier - Command Palette, Daily Notes, Publish, Sync, Templates
B Tier - Backlinks, Bookmarks, File Recovery, Graph View, Note Composer, Outline, Properties View, Quick Switcher, Search
C Tier - Footnotes View, Outgoing Links, Page Preview, Slash Commands, Tags View, Word Count, Workspaces
D Tier - Files, Format Converter, Unique Note Creator, Web Viewer
F Tier - Audio Recorder, Random Note, Slides

In the full post, I share quite a bit about each plugin:

What the plugin does
What I like (or dislike) about it
Why I ranked it where I did

It's far too long for an email (over 4,000 words!), so click here if you want to dive deeper into my rankings.

— Mike

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