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  "textContent": "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.\n\nThank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations to the winners! We will be in touch with winners soon so you can receive your prizes.\n\nThis year's categories include:\n\n  1. New plugins\n  2. New themes\n  3. Existing plugins\n  4. Tools\n  5. Content\n  6. Templates\n  7. Integrations\n\n\n\n## New plugins\n\nFor the first time this year, **Best new plugin** is focused solely on the work of individual developers creating standalone plugins for Obsidian.\n\n### Winner\n\n🏆 Advanced Canvas by **Developer-Mike**\n\n> Expands Obsidian Canvas capabilities with presentations, flowcharts and more.\n\n### Runners up\n\n  * PDF++ by **RyotaUshio** adds annotation and highlighting for PDFs.\n  * Lazy Loader by _**alangrainger**_ speeds up load time by delaying when plugins are loaded.\n  * Iconic by **gfxholo** lets you customize icons throughout the app.\n  * Vertical Tabs by **oxdc** displays tabs vertically.\n  * Ink by **daledesilva** lets you add handwriting and drawing to notes.\n  * Image Converter by **xRyul** helps you convert, resize, and annotate images.\n  * Note Toolbar by **chrisgurney** adds toolbars in your notes.\n\n\n\n## New themes\n\n### Winner\n\n🏆 Cupertino by **aaaaalexis**\n\n> Cupertino brings a native experience to your Obsidian vault, for a clean, focused, and mobile-friendly writing experience.\n\n### Runners up\n\n  * Fancy A Story by **ElsaTam** creates an immersive environment to write stories and build worlds.\n  * Underwater by **Seniblue** a customizable theme with a wide variety of color schemes.\n\n\n\n## Existing plugins\n\nThis category highlights the community's favorite plugins that haven't previously won community awards.\n\n### Winner\n\n🏆 LaTeX Suite by **artisticat1**\n\n> Make typesetting LaTeX math as fast as handwriting.\n\n### Runners up\n\n  * Homepage by **mirnovov** opens a specified note, canvas, or workspace upon launch.\n  * List Callouts by **mgmeyers** lets you create callouts in lists.\n  * Spaced Repetition by **st3v3nmw** for reviewing flashcards & notes using spaced repetition.\n  * Hover Editor by **nothingislost** transforms page previews into a working editor.\n  * Calendarium by **javalent** for crafting mind-bending fantasy and sci-fi calendars.\n\n\n\n## Tools\n\nThis category highlights bookmarklets, browser extensions, publishing tools, scripts, and any other non-plugin tools that work with with Obsidian.\n\n### Winner\n\n🏆 Git Sync by ViscousPot\n\n> 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.\n\n### Runners up\n\n  * Actions For Obsidian by **Carlo Zottmann** brings automation to Obsidian using macOS/iOS Shortcuts.\n  * Plugin Stats by **Ganessh Kumar** lets you explore Obsidian plugins with a variety of filters and categories.\n\n\n\n## Content\n\n### Winner\n\n🏆 TTRPG Tutorials by **Josh Plunkett**\n\n> 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.\n\n### Runners up\n\n  * 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.\n  * Obsidian: The King of Learning Tools by **Odysseas** , a YouTube video guide to using Obsidian for reading, writing and thinking.\n\n\n\n## Templates\n\n### Winner\n\n🏆 Bag of Tips TTRPG Template Vault by **Bag of Tips**\n\n> 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.\n\n### Runners up\n\n  * Web Clipper Templates by **kepano** , a set of Web Clipper templates for various websites like Arxiv, IMDB, Goodreads, Letterboxd, and YouTube.\n  * LifeOS for Obsidian by **quanru** is a vault template that combines P.A.R.A with Periodic Notes.\n\n\n\n## Integrations\n\nWith this new category we're highlighting the work of individuals and teams creating plugins that rely on other services, including paid services.\n\n### Third-party services\n\n#### Winner\n\n🏆 Instapaper plugin by **Instapaper**\n\n> Integrates with your Instapaper account and allows you to sync your highlights and notes to your Obsidian vault.\n\n#### Runners up\n\n  * Relay plugin by **System 3** adds multiplayer mode to Obsidian.\n  * Enveloppe plugin by **Enveloppe** helps you publish your notes on a GitHub repository.\n\n\n\n### Language models\n\n#### Winner\n\n🏆 Copilot plugin by **logancyang**\n\n> Use LLMs to chat with your notes, and talk to your entire vault for answers and insights.\n\n#### Runners up\n\n  * Smart Connections plugin by **brianpetro** lets you chat with your notes and see links to related content with AI embeddings.\n  * Ollama Chat plugin by **brumik** allows you to ask your local LLM about your own notes.\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nCongratulations again to all who won and participated!\n\nPrevious Gems of the Year:\n\n2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023",
  "title": "2024 Gems of the year winners",
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