Kitty

A lightweight desktop pet for Obsidian. Kitty brings a small, animated friend to your workspace that roams around your notes.

What can Kitty do?

• Drag your pet anywhere in your workspace. They settle at the bottom of whatever you're working on.
• Includes Kitty (artwork by Elthen) and a lucky Maneki Neko (artwork by me!).
• Your pet will explore, sit, or nap inside your notes.
• If you restart Obsidian, they can wait for you exactly where you left them.
• Upload your own pixel art to grow your library of custom desktop companions.

Settings

• Persist on relaunch: Keeps the pet active and on the same leaf across Obsidian sessions.
• Allow movement: Enable or disable horizontal roaming.
• Sprite selection: Choose between different pets saved in your library.

Sprite editor

• Frame dimensions: Configure a spritesheet by frame slice (e.g., 32, 32).
• Frame scale: Pixel-perfect scaling for crisp pixel art.
• Frames per second: Control the speed of the animation cycle.

Installation

Community Plugins (Pending)

1. Open Settings > Community Plugins.
2. Select Browse and search for "Kitty".
3. Click Install, then Enable.

Manual Installation

1. Download the latest release (main.js, manifest.json, styles.css).
2. Create a folder named kitty in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory.
3. Move the downloaded files into that folder and enable the plugin.

To start: Open the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl + P) and run Kitty: Toggle sprite.

Custom Sprites

You can find many free spritesheets online. I recommend Aseprite for creating your own.

1. Prepare your image: Use a transparent .png where the animations are laid out in a grid.
2. Import: Use the Choose file button in the settings to copy it to your library.
3. Save: Give it a name and hit Save to library.

NOTE: If your sprite is facing the wrong way, you'll need to horizontally reflect the image file! The plugin handles horizontal flipping based on movement direction!