Best new Obsidian plugin, design inspiration and AI agent resources: 6 October

Obsidian fans, this one's for you. 6 October brought a full set of popular Obsidian plugins, plus a group of design and product inspiration galleries, new interface components for React and several tools for coding agents. A learning collection and a security platform round it out. Features and pricing change, so check each tool's own page before you commit.

Obsidian plugins worth installing

Dataview turns your Obsidian vault into a database you can query. It builds live tables, lists and task views from your notes' fields, tags and dates, using its own query language or JavaScript. Templater creates templates that run variables and functions, so new notes fill themselves in with dates, file names and prompts. Review any scripts from other people before you run them. Tasks for Obsidian tracks tasks across the whole vault with due dates, recurrence and priorities. Kanban for Obsidian adds Markdown-backed boards where every card stays a plain-text note.

Excalidraw for Obsidian brings a hand-drawn whiteboard into the vault, for diagrams and mind maps that link to your notes. Large drawings can slow things down on mobile. Smart Connections surfaces related notes as you write, using a local embedding model with no API key. Copilot for Obsidian lets you chat with your notes and run coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode inside Obsidian. Both are listed as freemium, so some features may need a paid plan.

Inspiration for design and product

GoodCart is a gallery of more than 1,100 full-page screenshots from about 400 hand-picked ecommerce websites, and you can filter by page type, industry and style. Shoot.Design collects App Store screenshots and app icons. Pushkeen.AI gathers real push notifications from iOS apps, with a focus on growth and bringing users back. abtest.design sorts A/B test results from leading apps into areas like paywalls, onboarding, checkout and retention. Morphin Inspirations collects interfaces, interactions and animations from live products, and it's listed as freemium.

Interface components for React

Tween UI offers 20 animated components and 25 blocks for React 19 and Tailwind v4, built with GSAP, and you copy and own them. AnimateIcons has more than 1,170 free animated SVG icons for React, added through the shadcn CLI or npm. SHIUI is a flat ink UI kit inspired by Hinomaru Japanese posters, with 111 elements, 24 blocks and design tokens. It's a strong style that won't suit every brand, so check its licence terms before commercial use. page-mascot is an agent skill that adds a cursor-following character to the top of a page, with 52 ready-made characters in six styles.

Coding agents and their memory

Foremerge is an open-source coordination protocol that sits above Git. It lets several coding agents share what they intend to do and spot conflicts before merge. It's pre-1.0 and only works on one machine for now. CRG builds a knowledge graph of a codebase so AI code reviews use fewer tokens. Meta Skill manages agent skills locally with semantic search and MCP integration. Ponytail is a skill that nudges coding agents to write less code, and React Frontend Skills covers React 19, Next.js 16, TypeScript and frontend architecture for agents like Codex, Claude Code and Cursor.

NodeDB is a memory and storage engine for AI agents that runs on device or in the browser, works offline and syncs when you're connected. It's a young project with a non-standard licence, so think that through carefully before relying on it for something as critical as a database.

Learning and security picks

AI Engineer Headquarters is a learning collection of methods, processes, algorithms and systems for building models and AI products, with notebooks and a structured path. Awesome Opus 5.5 Videos collects viral videos made with Claude Opus 5.5, along with the prompts behind them. OpenASM is an open-source, AI-powered platform for attack surface management that helps security teams find and monitor internet-facing assets. Only scan assets you own or are authorised to test.

That's only some of what's been added lately. Browse the full directory to filter by category, type, pricing and goal, and find the right fit for your work.