Definitely interested in the concept! Though it's not on the immediate roadmap.
A few thoughts:
- Obsidian's plugin system is JavaScript-based, which makes sense for Electron. For a native Rust app, we'd likely want something like WASM plugins or Lua scripting.
- v0.3.0 includes plans to extract the Mermaid renderer as a standalone crate and potentially the editor widget as a library — this modular architecture would be a foundation for future extensibility.
What kinds of plugins would you want? Knowing specific use cases would help prioritize. Custom renderers? File format converters? External tool integrations?
In the meantime, Ferrite has a "Live Pipeline" feature that lets you pipe JSON/YAML through shell commands (jq, yq, etc.) — not a full plugin system, but useful for custom transformations.
> Definitely interested in the concept! Though it's not on the immediate roadmap.
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> A few thoughts: - Obsidian's plugin system is JavaScript-based, which makes sense for Electron. For a native Rust app, we'd likely want something like WASM plugins or Lua scripting. - v0.3.0 includes plans to extract the Mermaid renderer as a standalone crate and potentially the editor widget as a library — this modular architecture would be a foundation for future extensibility.
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> What kinds of plugins would you want? Knowing specific use cases would help prioritize. Custom renderers? File format converters? External tool integrations?
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> In the meantime, Ferrite has a "Live Pipeline" feature that lets you pipe JSON/YAML through shell commands (jq, yq, etc.) — not a full plugin system, but useful for custom transformations.
Personally, I think there's two plugins I would really want.
1. Peer-to-peer syncing of notes. I do hope there will be a mobile version someday of your app. Most of my quick jotting of notes happens on mobile and heavy editing happens on traditional laptop/desktop. It would be nice just to scan a QR code to pair up devices and away we go. Optionally a small binary to be the sync server for self host for hub and spoke design. I love Git integration, but we want to take this at a level for those that aren't technically inclined.
2. A robust API for tool integration. Being able to plug in external tools is super helpful for streamlining workflows. In addition I've used it to make accessibility tools integrate for command and control.
I do like the fact that Obsidian has vaults that are essentially separate profiles that have separate vaults location settings and plugins.
OlaProis|1 month ago
A few thoughts: - Obsidian's plugin system is JavaScript-based, which makes sense for Electron. For a native Rust app, we'd likely want something like WASM plugins or Lua scripting. - v0.3.0 includes plans to extract the Mermaid renderer as a standalone crate and potentially the editor widget as a library — this modular architecture would be a foundation for future extensibility.
What kinds of plugins would you want? Knowing specific use cases would help prioritize. Custom renderers? File format converters? External tool integrations?
In the meantime, Ferrite has a "Live Pipeline" feature that lets you pipe JSON/YAML through shell commands (jq, yq, etc.) — not a full plugin system, but useful for custom transformations.
FloatArtifact|1 month ago
Personally, I think there's two plugins I would really want.
1. Peer-to-peer syncing of notes. I do hope there will be a mobile version someday of your app. Most of my quick jotting of notes happens on mobile and heavy editing happens on traditional laptop/desktop. It would be nice just to scan a QR code to pair up devices and away we go. Optionally a small binary to be the sync server for self host for hub and spoke design. I love Git integration, but we want to take this at a level for those that aren't technically inclined.
2. A robust API for tool integration. Being able to plug in external tools is super helpful for streamlining workflows. In addition I've used it to make accessibility tools integrate for command and control.
I do like the fact that Obsidian has vaults that are essentially separate profiles that have separate vaults location settings and plugins.