Seam

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Capture thoughts, tag naturally, and let Seam organize your vault quietly in the background.

Seam is a lightweight Obsidian plugin for capturing, finding, and organizing notes. Inspired by Zettelkasten, Apple Notes, and Bear, it brings a simple Fleeting, Permanent, and Archive workflow to your vault—so you can spend less time managing files and more time writing.

[!NOTE] 100% private. Seam does not collect or send us your personal information, note contents, or usage data. Your writing statistics stay on your devices and can be synced through your chosen service.

Why Seam?

Find and create with the Universal Palette

The Universal Palette brings search and action together. Find notes by title, content, tag, or folder; preview matches; and create a note when you need one. Type > to run Seam commands, or open the Palette directly in command mode.

Combine filters like /Fleeting #project !#archived, save your favorite searches, and pin notes, commands, or queries for quick access. You can also browse an Obsidian Base as a table or cards without leaving the Palette.

Make space for writing

Capture and organize

Create Fleeting notes from the Palette or use Quick Capture choices with your own folders and templates. When a note is ready to keep, add #permanent; when you're done with it, add #archive. Seam moves the note and can clean up tags and properties you no longer need.

Keep your days connected

Open @calendar to browse Daily Notes and create missing ones from your template. Open or create weekly and yearly notes, pin important notes above the calendar, and move unfinished tasks between Daily Notes.

See your progress

Explore Global Statistics for your current note and word totals, writing activity, streaks, and monthly trends. Select a day to revisit its notes. For a closer look, open a note's statistics, task completion, or outline in the Palette.

Writing history starts when Seam begins recording it; your existing notes are still included in vault totals. To share activity with Obsidian Sync, enable Sync all other types on each device.

Bring your sources along

Turn documents and images into linked Source notes, then find them with @sources. Seam can create notes automatically for files in your chosen source folder, and you can read PDFs with continuous pages.

Get started

Seam requires Obsidian 1.13.0 or later.

1. In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins, turn off Restricted mode if needed, and browse for Seam.
2. Install and enable the plugin.
3. In Seam settings, choose your folders and templates—or preview Initialize Seam for a recommended setup. Setup is optional and doesn't move or edit existing notes.
4. Open the Universal Palette from Obsidian's command palette or assign it a shortcut.

Initialize Seam can also set up a Bookshelf Base and the @bookshelf and @reading searches. Review the proposed changes before applying them.

For manual installation, download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from Releases, place them in <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-seam/, then reload Obsidian and enable Seam.

Languages

Seam follows Obsidian's language setting and supports English and Brazilian Portuguese. Other languages fall back to English. Translation contributions are welcome.

Support the project

Seam is free and open source. If it saves you time, consider supporting its development:

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Development and license

See README.dev.md for development and release instructions. Seam is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Crafted with care by William A. Costa (@WillACosta).