2021-04-14: Better Graphs, Dataview Tricks, & iOS+git Backups

Plugin News

• The new & (mostly) improved version of the Neo4j Graph View plugin by Emile van Krieken made it through code review and is now in the community plugins list as Juggl. You no longer have to install Python or Neo4j, it works on mobile, you can save your graph view, it can be embedded directly into your notes with a code fence, and it lets you control the styling (or not, if you'd rather keep it simple) with a style pane, YAML, and CSS.
• Dataview, Templater & Outliner are getting a lot of discussion. This video from Bryan Jenks does a good job of giving an overview. For example, the Dataview plugin can be leveraged to create a list of inbound or outbound links inside a note. This is a frequently requested thing, and seems more powerful at first glance than using the "Backlinks in Document" hack.  
• Dual is an open source virtual assistant plugin that leverages GPT-2 to let you talk to your notes. It's currently in the very alpha stages and takes about an hour and some know-how to get set up, but if you want to go be an early adopter and help the developer improve it, @paubric has a lot of enthusiasm and a Discord server set up.
• @mgmeyers created a new CSS snippet for the Style Settings plugin that lets you tweak every CSS variable of the default Obsidian theme.
• Media Extended now supports embed YouTube and Vimeo video fragment with time stamps.
• Hotkey Helper 0.2.0 now supports configuring core plugins as well as community plugins.

Workflow Stuff

• @rsteele got Working Copy to work with git-based syncing for iOS.

CSS Tips & Tricks

• Use HTML classes to highlight things in different colors via @death_au got resurfaced.
• Icons in the start of folder & note names is a popular request. There are a couple of ways to achieve the effect.
• @liam shared CSS for getting pagebreaks in .pdf exports.

PKM Tips

• an article by Tiago Forte about the PARA method
• CGP Grey on Atomic Notes

Feature Requests

• Let us see a note count for how many search results we have. (originally from June '20 – 8 💜 at last check)
• Tables that are sortable in preview has been requested.@alex.dinu and @liam spent some time discussing the particulars, and now @alex.dinu is looking into markdown post-processing. Reach out if you have any insight – I imagine this would be useful for a lot of people!

Ancillary Tools

• Focal Board, billed as an 'offline, open-source Notion'