It is not enabled by default, so do that first. Once enabled, click on the settings gear adjacent to the plugin to go to the plugin settings.There are many more features that you can explore, like a meter to track how much you have written on a particular day.
- Core plugins: Officially developed and maintained by the Obsidian team.
- Community Plugins: Created by users in the Obsidian community
Tasks
LanguageTool is a proofreading software that checks the grammar, style, and spelling in over 20 languages. With this plugin, you can get error notifications for your text in Obsidian.These are two different plugins which, when used together, are a great way to add callouts.In an earlier article, I wrote about using plugins in Obsidian. In this one, let me share a few of my favorite plugins. I recommend them but only use the ones that fit your needs.By default, you can access the daily notes from the Obsidian ribbon menu. But a more efficient way is to open daily notes whenever you open Obsidian.

With macros, you can even assign key bindings to make your workflow even faster!
Excalidraw
Go to the Daily Notes settings. Here, enable the “Open daily note on startup” toggle button.

Use the settings gear to change additional settings like where to create a note, open the note automatically, etc.
Honorable mentions
- Style Settings: Allows you to tweak several themes in Obsidian. One such theme that I am using and is heavily customizable is Border.
- Git: Allows you to version control your notes. You can pull changes from and push changes to GitHub, GitLab, etc.
- Dataview: Dataview is a live index and query engine over your personal knowledge base. You can query data from your Obsidian vault.
- QuickAdd: QuickAdd is like a super-smart shortcut button in Obsidian that lets you quickly create new notes or add stuff to existing ones using pre-made templates and automated steps you set up.
- Kanban: This plugins created a Markdown-based Kanban board.
You can add new icon packs by going to the Settings → Community plugins → Installed plugins -→Iconize -→Settings gear → Icon packs.It also provides different styles of highlighting, all selectable from the plugin settings.