2024 Gems of the year winners

Silver on January 21, 2025

Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of our fifth annual Gems of the Year awards! After our panel narrowed down the selection and the community voted on the entries, we’re now excited to announce the winners.

Thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations to the winners! We will be in touch with winners soon so you can receive your prizes.

This year’s categories include:

New plugins
New themes
Existing plugins
Tools
Content
Templates
Integrations

New plugins

For the first time this year, Best new plugin is focused solely on the work of individual developers creating standalone plugins for Obsidian.

Winner

🏆 Advanced Canvas by Developer-Mike

Expands Obsidian Canvas capabilities with presentations, flowcharts and more.

Runners up

PDF++ by RyotaUshio adds annotation and highlighting for PDFs.
Lazy Loader by alangrainger speeds up load time by delaying when plugins are loaded.
Iconic by gfxholo lets you customize icons throughout the app.
Vertical Tabs by oxdc displays tabs vertically.
Ink by daledesilva lets you add handwriting and drawing to notes.
Image Converter by xRyul helps you convert, resize, and annotate images.
Note Toolbar by chrisgurney adds toolbars in your notes.

New themes

Winner

🏆 Cupertino by aaaaalexis

Cupertino brings a native experience to your Obsidian vault, for a clean, focused, and mobile-friendly writing experience.

Runners up

Fancy A Story by ElsaTam creates an immersive environment to write stories and build worlds.
Underwater by Seniblue a customizable theme with a wide variety of color schemes.

Existing plugins

This category highlights the community’s favorite plugins that haven’t previously won community awards.

Winner

🏆 LaTeX Suite by artisticat1

Make typesetting LaTeX math as fast as handwriting.

Runners up

Homepage by mirnovov opens a specified note, canvas, or workspace upon launch.
List Callouts by mgmeyers lets you create callouts in lists.
Spaced Repetition by st3v3nmw for reviewing flashcards & notes using spaced repetition.
Hover Editor by nothingislost transforms page previews into a working editor.
Calendarium by javalent for crafting mind-bending fantasy and sci-fi calendars.

Tools

This category highlights bookmarklets, browser extensions, publishing tools, scripts, and any other non-plugin tools that work with with Obsidian.

Winner

🏆 Git Sync by ViscousPot

An Android git client that aims to simplify the process of syncing a folder between a git remote and a local directory. It works in the background to keep your files synced with a simple one-time setup and numerous options for activating manual syncs.

Runners up

Actions For Obsidian by Carlo Zottmann brings automation to Obsidian using macOS/iOS Shortcuts.
Plugin Stats by Ganessh Kumar lets you explore Obsidian plugins with a variety of filters and categories.

Content

Winner

🏆 TTRPG Tutorials by Josh Plunkett

Josh Plunkett is a Dungeon Master developing tutorials and templates to help TTRPG players learn how to unleash the power of Obsidian.md for campaigns.

Runners up

Zsolt’s Visual Personal Knowledge Management by Zsolt Viczián, a YouTube channel about visual tools and techniques for Personal Knowledge Management by the creator of the Excalidraw plugin for Obsidian.
Obsidian: The King of Learning Tools by Odysseas, a YouTube video guide to using Obsidian for reading, writing and thinking.

Templates

Winner

🏆 Bag of Tips TTRPG Template Vault by Bag of Tips

Obsdian template vault, filled with templates, CSS, and plugins for TTRPG players. It is perfect for those who want everything made for them, to start a new campaign.

Runners up

Web Clipper Templates by kepano, a set of Web Clipper templates for various websites like Arxiv, IMDB, Goodreads, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
LifeOS for Obsidian by quanru is a vault template that combines P.A.R.A with Periodic Notes.

Integrations

With this new category we’re highlighting the work of individuals and teams creating plugins that rely on other services, including paid services.

Third-party services

Winner

🏆 Instapaper plugin by Instapaper

Integrates with your Instapaper account and allows you to sync your highlights and notes to your Obsidian vault.

Runners up

Relay plugin by System 3 adds multiplayer mode to Obsidian.
Enveloppe plugin by Enveloppe helps you publish your notes on a GitHub repository.

Language models

Winner

🏆 Copilot plugin by logancyang

Use LLMs to chat with your notes, and talk to your entire vault for answers and insights.

Runners up

Smart Connections plugin by brianpetro lets you chat with your notes and see links to related content with AI embeddings.
Ollama Chat plugin by brumik allows you to ask your local LLM about your own notes.