Updated 02-Mar-2026
Note 03-mar-2026: I am migrating from Obsidian to VS Codium as my primary editor. I've always used VS Codium for editing files, but not as the main editor of my collection of documents that I keep in an organized vault. The Obsidian Android app has simply become too painful to use (takes more than a minute or more to be available for interaction. Below I list the extensions that help, though they are not completely polished as is the Obsidian UI is.
Note: for Android I use Xed Editor.
Codium / VSCode extensions
- Foregejo Integration
- Go
- Markdown & Quarto Word Count
- Markdown All In One
- Material Icon (icons)
- Paste Image
- Prettier - Code formater
- Tokyo Night (theme)
Codium aka VSCodium
- Alternative to the instrumented VSCode. Less tracking, same Open Source flavor.
- Another option is Pulsar, the resurrected Atom editor.
- Ignore Pulsar, vscodium is fine.
- Note that with Foam, Codium can provide some level of Obsidian-like functionality, though not nearly as extensive functionality and constrained to a desktop (no mobile apps).
- Foam is not very interesting to my use case.
Installation
sudo wget https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg -O /usr/share/keyrings/vscodium-archive-keyring.asc
echo 'deb [ signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/vscodium-archive-keyring.asc ] https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs vscodium main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscodium.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install codium
Configuration
- Which extensions
- What settings
- Using with git
- Using with pandoc
- Zoom in (ctrl+) and resize main font to 14px
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false- See also Foam
- Maybe Excalidraw?...
Some bugs
Sometimes codium seems to take over opening file folders. So fix it this way:
sudo nano ~/.config/mimeapps.list
Then add:
inode/directory=thunar.desktop
Under [Default Applications]