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Here are some feature I wish existed in Obsidian without any plugins: * Dataview [1] (this is now solved with Bases, so I really appreciate that) * Folder Note [2] (I, and I assume many others come from Notion, and I wish this were a thing) * Recent files [3] * A built in calendar [4] * Link embeds [5] (or something to store previews for pasted links) * Waypoint [6], or ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"}, {"id": 757149458, "item_id": 47321841, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321841", "by": "ismailmaj", "date": "2026-03-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Obsidian notes that run Dataview code blocks and Chart.js, couldn't be happier.", "excerpt": "In my experience, tracking objective things like \"nutrition\" and \"sleep hours\" is immensely useful to reflect on what went wrong, and tracking subjective things like \"mood\" or \"stress\" is useless given hedonic adaptation or heavy swings that make problems obvious, and not need tracking. 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