The Excalidraw-Obsidian Showcase: 57 key features in just 17 minutes

🎓 Sign up for the free Excalidraw Essentials mini-course: https://community.sketch-your-mind.co... ✏️ Sign up for the Visual Thinking Workshop: https://community.sketch-your-mind.co... 🚀 Cohort 16 starts on 16 May 2026. 📔 We will process The Next Conversation by Jefferson Fisher into a Book on a Page. ----- The Mindmap from the video: https://excalidraw-obsidian.online/WI... ----- If you find my videos helpful, please say thanks by buying me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/zsolt 📩 If you want to connect, you can reach me: (@zsviczian) on the Obsidian Members Group (OMG) on Discord, or on 🐦 Twitter:   / zsviczian   ----- This video is the celebration of passing the 2 million download milestone for the Excalidraw-Obsidian plugin. In the video, I demonstrate 57 basic and power features of the plugin showing you how Excalidraw is much more than just another vector illustration tool. It is a Visual Thinking Powerhouse. ----- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:54 ** PART 1 ** 01:01 OCR 01:26 Basic shapes 01:36 Snap to grid 01:49 Element properties 01:56 Snap to objects 02:07 Stencil library 02:42 Link to file 02:53 Hover preview 03:04 Embedding block references 03:16 Element link 03:25 Outgoing and back-links 03:32 Mermaid text to diagram 03:51 Hand-drawn and professional styles 04:03 Embed videos 04:20 Link to visual elements 04:48 Insert image 04:58 Link to image on the web 05:14 Link to file on the local drive 05:31 Export image 05:56 Embed image in notes 06:11 Group and area embed 06:28 Set embed width and height 06:37 ** PART 2 ** 06:44 Deconstruct images 07:08 Back-of-the-note cards 07:32 Markdown view 07:44 Customizing cards 07:54 Embed any markdown note 08:02 Embed webpages 08:10 SHIFT resize to scale 08:21 ** PART 3 ** 08:28 Plugin settings 08:40 Templates 09:13 Installing scripts 09:30 Slideshow 09:46 Split ellipse 09:55 Boolean operations 10:04 Repeat elements 10:13 Select elements of type 10:25 Set dimensions 10:34 Crop and mask image 10:47 Palette loader 11:06 Light mode - dark mode 11:17 Invert colors 11:32 Tray mode 11:46 ** PART 4 ** 11:53 Import pdf as images 12:14 Import pdf as embeddable 12:34 Crop pdf page in Markdown notes 13:01 Fourth font 13:28 Custom pens 13:48 LaTeX support 14:02 ExcaliAI 14:30 Annotating images 14:54 Text aura 15:03 Convert SVG to Excalidraw strokes 15:33 Collaboration frames 15:58 Excalidraw publish 16:12 ** PART 5 ** 16:19 Document properties (default view mode) 16:41 Excalidraw Automate (EA) 17:09 ** PART 6 ** 17:16 Closing thoughts ------- 🍿Watch next: 📽️ Getting Started with Excalidraw    • Getting Started with Visual PKM from scrat...   📽️ Getting Started with ExcaliBrain    • Getting started with ExcaliBrain - startin...   📽️ The Playful PKM Castle: A Whirlwind Tour of Zsolt's Visual Thinking World!    • The Playful PKM Castle: A Whirlwind Tour o...   📽️ The Compass of Zettelkasten    • Connect Ideas with The Idea Compass and Vi...   📽️ Knowledge Discovery Using Icons    • Improve knowledge discovery by reusing ico...   📽️ Idea Integration Board    • Get More Out of What You Read with the Ide...   📽️ Idea Mixer    • Iconic Insights: A Journey into Visual Con...   📽️ 6 Strategies for Linking Visual Thoughts    • 6 Strategies for Linking your Visual Thoug...   📽️ Visual Zettelkasten    • Visual Zettelkasten   📽️ 4D PKM    • 4D Visual Thinking: Effective PKM & the Vi...   📽️ Visually Connect Ideas    • The Visual Thinking Framework with Obsidia...   📽️ Digest What You Read    • Digest What You Read: Walkthrough of my pr...   📽️ How are these related?    • How are Picasso's Bull, Tiago's Building a...   📽️ Colors playlist    • The ultimate walkthrough about using color...   📽️ The Periodic Table of Productivity    • VISUAL SUMMARY: Feel-Good Productivity by ...   📽️ The Extended Mind    • The Extended Mind - Book on a Page   📽️ How To Take Smart Notes    • How to Take Smart Notes - Book on a Page   📽️ Finite and Infinite Games Book on a Page    • Visual Zettelkasten   --------- The Mindmap from the video: https://excalidraw-obsidian.online/Ho... Visual Thinking Workshop: https://www.visual-thinking-workshop.... My blog: https://zsolt.blog/ Obsidian: https://obsidian.md Excalidraw-Obsidian: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian... ExcaliBrain Plugin: https://github.com/zsviczian/excalibrain Excalidraw Publish: https://excalidraw-obsidian.online/ ----- Attributions Video by Jesus Cambronero: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up... Video by Rahul Sharma: https://www.pexels.com/video/beautifu... Video by Anastasia Shuraeva: https://www.pexels.com/video/person-u... Video by Kampus Production: https://www.pexels.com/video/hammerin...