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| Type | Project |
| Note created | Mar 17, 2026 |
I always had issues to the different ways of editing and saving music around. For that reason, it has always been an idea to use Obsidian to do it, but the existing plugins never seemed enough for what I needed.
On 2026-03-17 I started developing an Obsidian plugin that renders guitar tablature and standard music notation from vextab code blocks. Built on top of VexTab (v4.0.5) and VexFlow v5, it turns plain-text tab notation into clean SVG that adapts to whatever theme is active.
The plugin also ships with a visual tab editor (an Obsidian Modal) that lets me compose tabs by clicking on a 6-string grid instead of writing VexTab syntax by hand, and a simple Web Audio playback engine to hear what the tab sounds like.
Most importantly, I made it fully compatible since day one with Obsidian Publish, which lets me keep on my idea of working in public and tending the Digital Garden with different guitar exercises I may find useful.