Obsidian’s 7 GitHub Repositories, 42,437 Stars: A Path from User to Plugin Author

On X, Mr. Buzzoni organized Obsidian's official GitHub repositories into a single path. Founders Shida Li and Erica Xu have released the Web Clipper, importer, Canvas format, plugin template, and API. Seven repositories, 42,437 stars. The original post opens with “absolute f*cking free”—to put it plainly: so free it feels unreal.

The video lists these 7 repositories and their star counts. Below they are broken down in order from user to plugin author.

obsidian-importer: Import notes from Apple Notes, Notion, Evernote, OneNote, Roam, Logseq, and more into Obsidian and convert them to pure Markdown. For anyone who wants to migrate, this is the first gateway.
obsidian-clipper: A browser extension that clips web highlights and article text into a vault and saves them as Markdown, readable offline too. It is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.
obsidian-help: The source files for the official help documentation, written in Markdown and with multilingual translations. If you want to fix typos or add translations, you can submit a PR directly.
jsoncanvas: The open file format behind Canvas. Other apps can read Obsidian's whiteboard data, so you are not locked into a single piece of software.
obsidian-sample-plugin: The starter template for community plugins. A weekend idea can start here and become an installable plugin.
obsidian-api: The type definitions for the entire Obsidian API. When writing plugins, checking interfaces here is more direct than digging through forum posts.
obsidian-releases: The release list for community plugins and themes. After a plugin is finished, whether users can find and install it in Obsidian goes through this repository. It is also the highest-starred of the seven repositories, with 22,683 stars.

Regular users should start with the first three. Importing old notes, clipping web pages, and checking help documentation solve the first step of using it. Those with a development background should look at 5 through 7. The template, API, and release list connect together to push a plugin from local code to real users. A plugin with real users is also a portfolio piece you can put on a résumé.

In the comments, someone joked that Obsidian users are about to have more plugins than notes; another reply said the second brain only pays off when you open it. These two lines are closer to daily life than star counts. An open-source toolchain lowers the barrier to building; it does not solve the habit of opening your notes.

Original post link: https://x.com/Mr_Buzzoni/status/2115466871793406007