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Changelog

Follow Obsidian updates and improvements.

Shiny new things

  • Command palette. Access commands by typing!
  • Backlinks: links are now updated when you rename a file, either from the title bar or from the file explorer.
  • Backlinks: hover over an unlinked mention, and you'll get the option to link that mention and turn it into a proper [[Internal link]].
  • Navigation: go backward/forward. Added as buttons to the title bar, and you can also access it via command palette and shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right).
  • Editor: read mode. Accessible via command palette (type "trm" to find it).
  • Quick switcher & command palette: they now support fuzzy search.

No longer broken

  • Editor: fix Ctrl+click doesn't create new note.
  • Editor: fix unreadable Markdown and white cursor bug.
  • If you've moved the vault, instead of refusing to work the app now prompts for another location.
  • Graph view fix links that end in .md would break the graph.
  • Backlinks: fix unlinked mentions need a space after it in order to match.
  • Backlinks: fix [[Page title|Display]] showing up as unlinked mentions instead of links.
  • Backlinks: fix full file path like [[Folder/Sub-folder/Page]] not showing up as links.
  • Custom CSS: fix cannot disable the plugin if obsidian.css is not present.
  • Quick switcher: fix issue where navigating to "Page name" would wipe it if there's a folder called the same name in the same directory.
  • Fix line wrapping issues in title bar, embeds, and Backlinks panel.
  • Tag: tags are now supported, with auto-complete support.
  • Tag pane plugin, displays all the tags sorted by number of occurrences.
  • Format: checkboxes (task list in GitHub flavored Markdown) is now supported.
  • Page preview: hover a link in preview to see its content without going there. Ctrl+hover to activate in editor. Disabled by default.
  • New plugin: custom CSS. Uses obsidian.css in the vault root if present.
  • New plugin: button to open file with default app.
  • Graph view: links and neighboring nodes are highlighted when hovering a node, while other nodes are faded out.
  • Graph view: better connected nodes now appear bigger.
  • Quick switcher: show most recent files when no search is entered.
  • Backlinks: show unlinked mentions as well.
  • Preview: support embed Markdown files as well (with ![[page name]]).
  • Link: an extra click is no longer required to create a new note.
  • Link: links to non-existent files are no longer red.
  • Link: click an internal link while holding Ctrl or Cmd to follow it.
  • Graph: fix previous note title still showing after switching to graph view.
  • Slides: fix tables not working in presentation view.
  • Plugin: backlinks. Show number of backlinks for the current file in status bar.
  • Plugin: word count. Show word current of current file.
  • Preview pane is now collapsible.
  • Light mode.
  • Graph view: you can now drag your mouse to pan.
  • Copy paste: support pasting in clipboard images (e.g. screenshots).
  • Copy paste: support pasting in local images on your hard drive (will be copied to vault folder).
  • Copy paste: support pasting in images from your browser (will be downloaded to vault folder).
  • Drag-and-drop: support drag and drop images from browser.
  • Drag-and-drop: support drag and drop images from other folders (will be copied to vault folder).
  • Link: fixed internal links not recognized on app start.
  • File explorer: file deletion now asks for confirmation.
  • File explorer: now you can move files into the vault folder for organization.
  • Linux version first release.
  • Slides plugin: use --- to separate your slides and start presenting right away.
  • Audio recorder plugin: record audio and save as attachment (it gets automatically appended to the end of your current file).
  • If you have a file at Folder/Another folder/My note.md and "My note" is a unique name, [[My note]] and [[my note]] internal links will now resolve. It used to be that only the complete link will be resolved.
  • Last opened tab and plugin enabled status are now saved in config.
  • Graph view: navigate to file when clicking on a node.
  • Graph view: collision detection to avoid overlap.
  • Graph view: allow scroll to see the entire picture.
  • Graph view: better link placement.
  • Graph view: scroll to center on load.
  • Graph view: visually distinguish non-existent linked nodes.
  • Graph view: hide orphan nodes for now.
  • App: fix app loads at a small fixed size.
  • App: fix developer tools being visible when app first loads.
  • Explorer: warn about duplicate file names when renaming.
  • Explorer: warn about forbidden characters in file names.
  • Sidebar: sidebar title should not be select-able.
  • Sidebar: click current tab again to collapse.
  • Sidebar: add collapse button to each panel.

Initial release.

Notable features include:

  • Choose vault and list all the compatible files.
  • [[Internal link]] with auto-complete.
  • Image (.png) and audio (.mp3) file embed with ![[filename.png]] [[embedding]] syntax.
  • Plugin system.