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Obsidian 1.14 is now available with five major improvements:
1. Edit Markdown files outside your vault
2. Preview files using macOS Quick Look when the app is closed
3. Instantly add notes with Quick Capture on iOS
4. Kanban and new grouping options in Bases
5. Highlight colors
Pele is a fast, beautiful, open source renderer for Mermaid diagrams we created for the next version of Obsidian.
You can already try it in the Pele playground and integrate it into your own apps.
This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax.
- 100-500× faster than mermaid.js
- 6× smaller bundle
- No dependencies
- Easy to theme
- Responsive to device width
In pursuit of making Obsidian insanely fast and cohesively designed, I always found the Mermaid library to be too big, too slow, and too hard to theme. Pele will be the new renderer in the next version of Obsidian, but you can start using it now.
Pele [ˈpɛlɛ] is named after the goddess of volcanoes and fire. It's open source under the MIT license. Try the playground!
Obsidian 1.14.4 Desktop (early access)
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State of Obsidian 2026
Take the survey:
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More from our blog: Obsidian October 2026
O_O is back! Every October, the Obsidian community turns "I should make that" into "I made that!" Whether you’ve been tinkering with a plugin, theme, vault, guide, or video, this is your month to finish it and share it.
This year the Obsidian team will also be working on our own project, a new survey we’re calling State of Obsidian.
Take the State of Obsidian survey
In May, we launched the new Obsidian Community, and since then the number of plugins and themes has more than doubled to over 8,000 projects!
We thought this would be a great opportunity to reimagine our annual Gems of the Year awards and report on how you are using Obsidian in 2026. This first survey will also set a baseline for how the community continues to evolve going forward.
As you know, we take privacy seriously. The Obsidian app doesn’t collect personal data, and our developer guidelines prohibit plugins from including telemetry. So the State of Obsidian survey is how you can tell us about your favorite plugins, themes, tools, and ways to use Obsidian. We’ll compile this data into a report that we will share publicly by the end of the year.
Give your projects some love
Do you have an existing plugin? Give it a tune-up with the APIs we’ve added since last October:
- The new Settings API in Obsidian 1.13 makes your settings searchable.
- If your plugin stores API keys, passwords, or other secrets, explore SecretStorage and SecretComponent to let people use secrets they manage in the Obsidian Keychain.
Your project doesn’t have to be a plugin. Refresh a theme, share a vault, write a guide, or make a video that helps someone discover a new way to use Obsidian. If you’ve been waiting for a nudge to release it, this is it!
Join us on Discord in the Obsidian October channel to share what you’re making as it takes shape, ask for help when you get stuck, and lend a hand on someone else’s project. Rock on! 🎸🪨
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Obsidian 1.14.3 (early access) is now available!
- New Group menu in Bases lets you control columns in Kanban. Also works with tables, lists, cards.
- Added macOS Quick Look, so you can instantly preview Markdown files even when Obsidian is not open.
- New document icons for .md, .base, .canvas files.
- Quick Switcher is now five times faster.
And lots more!
