Excalidraw-Obsidian 2.0.0 Feature Walkthrough

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Showcasing new Excalidraw Obsidian Features

Highlights
- 📊 Creating charts from clipboard data
- 📚 Organizing and pinning scripts in the script library
- 🌈 Customizing fill types and changing element shapes
- ✍️ Utilizing the Scribble Helper script for text editing
- 🎨 Filling unclosed shapes and selecting similar elements
- ↪️ Disabling arrow binding for precise positioning
- 🖼️ Managing frames and using image references
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00:00 Intro
00:23 Custom CSS - Demonstrating Canvas Candy
04:18 New Context Menu Actions
06:49 New PDF Import Options
11:01 Laser Pointer Configuration
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[bradwasson]

Hey Zsolt - the fit and finish of the Excalidraw plugin is growing by leaps and bounds. Congrats on getting to version 2.0.0 and many thanks for all your work. Incredible!

[rsandovuaem]

EXTRAORDINARY new features on v 2.0.0 this is the best plug-in. Thanks for your work

[elcotopotter]

Thank you for everything; you've made my student life much easier and more enjoyable.

[rigakushi]

This is awesome, Thank you very much Zsolt

[matiaspizarro]

Thank you so much for your work, absolutely love it!

[RameshBaburbabu]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:

00:00 🎨 Canvas Candy Support in Excalidraw
- Demonstrates Canvas Candy support in Excalidraw.
- Steps to achieve Canvas Candy effect:
- Export transparent with `excalidraw export transparent: true`.
- Set drawing background to dark mode.
- Add Canvas Candy CSS class (`CC`) with `border none`.
- Celebrate the immersive drawing on the canvas.
04:21 📋 New Context Menu Actions
- Introduces new context menu actions in Excalidraw.
- Actions demonstrated:
- Inserting a link to a file or any file.
- Opening links by right-clicking or long-clicking on items.
- Converting text elements into separate markdown files.
06:49 📥 New PDF Import Features
- Highlights new PDF import features in Excalidraw.
- PDF import options demonstrated:
- Importing left to right in columns or top to bottom in rows.
- Grouping or not grouping elements during import.
- Locking imported pages for easier manipulation.
11:04 🖋️ Laser Tool Configurations
- Discusses configurations for the laser pointer tool in Excalidraw.
- Configurable laser pointer settings:
- Changing the color of the laser pointer.
- Adjusting delay time for pointer disappearance.
- Modifying decay length for slower disappearance, facilitating detailed explanations.

[SynergiaT]

Really useful, thank you very much Zsolt!

[beraldialessandro]

Incrível! Admiro muito o seu trabalho e sua contribuição.
Sempre fiquei pulando de um APP a outro, o Obsidian e seus plug-ins me fizeram parar e criar meu próprio PKM. Sou gerente de uma equipe de engenharia. Obrigado!

[smollismollisworld]

Hurray on the new PDF group functionality, and all the rest of course. As a wish feature, make mermaid flowcharts editable so one doesn't need to keep the mermaid stored, or have an insert mermaid from link that automatically updates the graph when changes have been made. That would be super cool and helpful.

[robertodijo]

I just came across this tool. What an excellent tool. Thanks for your efforts. BTW: at 1:57 I see a properties helper popup. How did you enable this?

[satanniel]

Suggestion, add right-to-left (and top-down with rtl column order) to accommodate pdfs in languages that use such direction.

[bozhidar_batev]

Hey Zsolt, is it possible to use lazer pen in presentation mode?

[sandy]

Hi, huge thanks for the plugin.The pdf import options is great but the page size gets distorted while importing. My pdf pages have more length than width and importing increases the width so much, which distorts the letters and makes them poor to read. Any solution for this?

[brunomorini]

Hey Zsolt, Thank you for your incredible work.

I'm having problems with android performance. After 1000 elements, handwriting starts to lag and become inaccurate, the letters are less smooth.

I'm using Tab S9+ and S pen.

[luoguiming]

Thanks very much for your work! I want to use outline in excalidraw plugin by header # header1, ## header2 for position the information and It is easy to find the wanted information by click outline. Is there any solution for this?

[douglasnotion]

Is it possible to copy the text inside de pdf? Or it’s import like img?

[Caroline_Creative]

Can I use excalidraw and excalibrain on obsidian on my ipad?