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This video is the celebration of passing the 2 million download milestone for the ExcalidrawObsidian 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 backlinks
03:32 Mermaid text to diagram
03:51 Handdrawn 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 Backofthenote 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



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The Mindmap from the video: https://excalidrawobsidian.online/Ho...
Visual Thinking Workshop: https://www.visualthinkingworkshop....
My blog: https://zsolt.blog/
Obsidian: https://obsidian.md
ExcalidrawObsidian: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian...
ExcaliBrain Plugin: https://github.com/zsviczian/excalibrain
Excalidraw Publish: https://excalidrawobsidian.online/


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