Library

Your watchlist, reading list, and game backlog as a gallery of covers, kept as plain Markdown notes in your vault. Search a title, pick a result, and Library writes the note: cover, year, genres, and creators, plus a trailer for movies, series, anime, and games.
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Features

• Ratings and stills for movies, series, anime, and games when the source has them; cast for movies and series.
• Movies, series, games, and comics can be found by their title in another language.
• Tick episodes or chapters and score them; Progress and My Rating follow.
• Titles you haven't started get an eye on the cover and gather in Up next.
• Similar titles under movie, series, anime, game, and book notes.
• Start new notes from a template of your own, and keep source fields you don't want out of them.
• Anime sync with AniList and MyAnimeList, Steam library import, and share cards.
• Genres, creators, and actors are links that collect their titles.
• Every field is in frontmatter, so Bases and Dataview can read it.
• Desktop and mobile, with the interface in every language Obsidian supports.

Quick start

1. Install Library from Settings → Community plugins, or from GitHub Releases.
2. In Settings → Library, add a category and pick its source: Movies, Series, Books, Comics, Games, Music, Anime, or Manual. One is enough to start.
3. Open the Library tab from the ribbon, press +, pick the category, and search. For movies and series, a year after the title picks between films that share a name: dune 1984.

The wiki has the details: API keys, anime sync, Steam import, and note properties.

Sources

Keys go in Settings → Library → API keys. A TMDB key adds season ratings and more stills, a Twitch application adds game trailers from IGDB, and a Steam Web API key imports the games you own with their playtime. Settings → Library → Show recommendations hides the similar titles.

Progress and statistics

Open a season in a series note to tick episodes and score them from 1 to 10. Progress counts the ticked episodes, and My Rating averages the season scores. Anime is one season. Books get chapters from Open Library, or from Add chapters in the note header.

Settings → Library can hide Up next or keep its titles out of their categories. The statistics panel shows the top lists you pick and your hours on movies, series, and anime.

Anime sync

Anime notes sync with AniList and MyAnimeList through four commands. Push sends the open note's progress, status, and score; pull updates your notes from your list, never moves progress back, and leaves My Rating alone. Nothing syncs on its own. The wiki shows how to connect each site.

Frontmatter

Each card is a note, and everything the plugin knows about it is in the frontmatter:

---
Type: Series
Name: Stranger Things
Year: 2016
Genre: ["[[Drama]]", "[[Horror]]"]
Creator: ["[[The Duffer Brothers]]"]
Cast: ["[[Winona Ryder]]"]
Rating IMDB: 8.7
Runtime: 42
My Rating: 9
Cover: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/...
URL: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/
Progress: 8/42
Complete: false
Date: 01.03.2026
Source: omdb
Source ID: tt4574334
---

A refresh fills empty fields and updates the sources' ratings, never yours. The wiki lists every property.

Privacy and network use

Your library is plain notes that open offline; covers load from the web. The plugin goes online to search, refresh, sync, or share, when you open a library note (at most once in 5 minutes), and once after an update or a key change. It has no telemetry or self-update, and each key goes only to its own service.

Commands

• Open Library
• Add content
• Search your library
• Refresh metadata for current note, Refresh metadata of all notes
• Rebuild graph links
• Find & remove duplicates
• Share current note
• Push current note to AniList, Pull progress from AniList
• Push current note to MyAnimeList, Pull progress from MyAnimeList
• Import Steam library

Support

Report bugs and suggest ideas in Issues; ask questions in Discussions. The plugin is under the MIT License.