50 Obsidian tricks that need zero plugins
Fifty Obsidian tricks hiding in a fresh install, no community plugins needed: search operators, block links and embeds, callouts, multiple cursors, Bases formulas, file recovery, the new CLI and more.
Pablo Murad
Building things and leaving them scattered around to keep the internet free.
$ curl pablomurad.com
Earlier
- Reading log, 2026-W45
- Cock.li, email the way it used to be
- Bloggram turns your Telegram channel into a blog
- Emacs beyond the basics, part I: feeds, gopher, the fediverse and mail
- The small things I love
- How to get into the demoscene: a practical guide
- Three small computers looking for neighbors
- Come get lost in weirdnet
- Org mode from zero: a complete, friendly guide
- Come wander the small web with curl
- Neat Finds #04: Old Machines, Small Rings and Terminal Weather
- How murad.chat fits the fediverse on one VPS
- How to publish a website under ip6.arpa
- Software as culture: the demoscene
- Binary Memories, part III
- How Usenet serves files
- The other Pablo Murads
- Come wreck your photos :)
- The file server I didn't know I needed: copyparty
Now
been reading maurycy's "a bit about email" and it's one of the nicest walkthroughs of the plumbing i've seen in a while. MUA, MSA, MTA, the whole chain, and why it's shaped like that: in 1980 most places had one flaky server, so mail had to be stored, forwarded and retried for…