Utilitiz
Utilitiz / Obsidian

Sound, film and colour for your notes.

Free, open-source plugins for Obsidian, and a theme that glows with what you are hearing. Find them in Obsidian under Settings → Community plugins → Browse.

Better together

Each one works on its own. Install a few and they start to cooperate.

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The theme follows the music

With Static Aurora installed, pressing play in Static FM, Aurora MP3 or Hi-Fi Tuner fades the theme's glows to match: your noise colours, the album cover, or the globe's colour way. Pause and the colours stay.

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One player at a time

Start one player and the others pause, so you never get two soundtracks at once. Each has a "Play alongside other players" setting if you'd like to mix noise with music.

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Quiet by design

No telemetry, no accounts. Noise and ambience are generated on your computer. The radio and film players only talk to the stations and archives you choose.

Obsidian plugins

All free and open source (MIT), desktop only. Find them in Obsidian under Settings → Community plugins → Browse.

Static FM in the Obsidian sidebar
ObsidianFirefoxWeb

Static FM

Seven colours of stereo noise, from bright blue to deep brown, on one dial, with binaural tones and a slow breathing pulse.

  • Blue, green, grey, white, pink, orange and brown noise
  • Pulse that breathes the colour (4–60 s)
  • Binaural presets from Delta to Gamma, or your own
  • Sleep timer with a gentle fade
Offline · no network use
Open in ObsidianGitHubWeb version
Aurora MP3 player with album cover
Obsidian

Aurora MP3

Your own music library in the sidebar: album covers, playlists, a queue and soft glows tinted by the artwork.

  • Reads MP3, FLAC, M4A, Ogg, Opus and WAV from your folders
  • Albums, artists, folders, playlists, search
  • Resumes where you left off, even mid-mix
  • Listening log and player cards in your notes
Offline · reads your music folders, never writes to them
Open in ObsidianGitHub
Hi-Fi Tuner globe view
ObsidianFirefoxWeb

Hi-Fi Tuner

Internet radio on a wireframe globe. Tune in and the globe turns to the station and draws a signal arc from you.

  • Hand-picked focus stations, plus search across 50,000
  • Globe colour ways: Blue, Brown, Terminal, Aurora
  • Minimal text look with an ASCII bar EQ
  • Presets, your own stream URLs, sleep timer
Network: SomaFM, Radio Browser and the streams you play
Open in ObsidianGitHubWeb version
Matinee playing a black-and-white film under the file list
Obsidian

Matinee

A small screen under your file list that plays random public-domain black-and-white films from the Internet Archive.

  • Film noir, early sci-fi and horror, silent era, newsreels
  • Muted by default, so it sits quietly while you write
  • Pauses when the sidebar is hidden
  • Top or bottom of the sidebar, 4:3 or 16:9
Network: archive.org
Open in ObsidianGitHub
MFP Player playlist
ObsidianFirefox

MFP Player

An unofficial player for the Music For Programming series: every episode as a playlist in your sidebar. Made with the site owner's permission.

  • Resume, favourites and themes
  • ASCII EQ
Network: musicforprogramming.net
Open in ObsidianGitHubmusicforprogramming.net
ObsidianFirefox

Bronois

The simplest of the lot: deep, soothing stereo brown noise for focus and sleep.

  • Low-pass filter and bass boost
  • Sleep timer
Offline · no network use
Open in ObsidianGitHub

Static Aurora theme

The look of this page, for your whole vault.

Obsidian with the Static Aurora theme

Warm dark glass over drifting glows

Near-black frosted panels, cream text and amber accents, with soft rose, ember and violet light moving slowly behind everything. Play something in one of the plugins above and the glows take on its colours.

With Style Settings you can stop the drift, set the glow strength, and pick an amber, rose or sea accent.

Light mode
Light mode is something different: a Windows 2000 classic look with silver panels, Tahoma and navy title bars.
GitHubIn Obsidian: Settings → Appearance → Themes → Manage → "Static Aurora"