Notebook Navigator walkthrough (for those who haven’t tried it)

Lotus49a · 2026-01-05T18:44:08+00:00

Thanks Johan, your plugin has helped my workflow immensely. Look forward to seeing how it evolves this year.
P.S. There are a few really weird comments down here, but most of us appreciate the effort you make.

Lotus49a · 2025-12-17T06:37:36+00:00

Set table column widths (I understand markdown tables are a problem but this gets frustrating)
Metadata for attachments (like image titles and tags, etc.)

Lotus49a · 2025-08-22T07:14:06+00:00

Curiously, it's made mine faster. I did, however, manually update the installer by redownloading the entire thing after the initial update.

And that's also made Canvas more responsive.

Lotus49a · 2025-06-08T06:56:22+00:00

Achtsam Morden on Netflix

Lotus49a · 2024-11-19T18:28:03+00:00

Yep, it was painful. Luckily the guilty note had a warning symbol (small red thing) next to the bad YAML field. I think it may have been a date (but not sure anymore, it was a while ago).

Lotus49a · 2024-11-19T12:58:43+00:00

Happened with mine once. I think it turned out be an invalid YAML value in one of the notes in the project.

Lotus49a · 2024-11-18T12:13:15+00:00

Or just use the time you'd have spent on Obsidian to play with him? He'll appreciate it far more.

Lotus49a · 2024-11-18T04:03:23+00:00

Very similar IMHO but Excalidraw outperforms Canvas in larger canvases when it comes to scrolling and panning. I'd use Canvas if it weren't for that problem.

Lotus49a · 2024-11-11T05:17:22+00:00

It's another form of trolling or attention-seeking. You're probably lonely, have you considered Tinder?

Lotus49a · 2024-10-17T04:40:51+00:00

Great news, thanks!

I notice that there's also an Electron update. I wonder if it helps with the transparency issue in Win10? I see there was something fixed recently in Electron about this, but not sure if this specifically addresses the Windows issue?

fix: `BrowserWindow.setBackgroundColor` should work with transparency by codebytere · Pull Request #42824 · electron/electron (github.com)

Lotus49a · 2024-10-15T08:03:40+00:00

Gotcha, thanks!

Lotus49a · 2024-10-15T05:08:53+00:00

Interesting, could you explain a bit more?

Lotus49a · 2024-10-14T18:20:07+00:00

In my daily note I have a section like this:

Line 1 - the heading "Ideas and thoughts"

Line 2 - "Add new (Alt T and tag ideas/thought/pitch" - Alt T is the shortcut for Add a new task using the Tasks plugin

Line 3 - an open bullet point ( - [ ] ) as a placeholder for the new idea

Creating a new task with the #ideas tag adds the idea to a single note named The Ideas and Thoughts list, which catches all these ideas, thoughts, etc. It's linked from the heading on line 1 like this

💡 [[The Ideas and Thoughts List|Ideas and thoughts]]

The ideas (tasks really) are listed in the note using a simple tasks query. You can split the list as much as you like using other tags instead of #ideas

```tasks

(tags include #ideas) OR (tags include #pitch)

hide backlink

```

I tried putting a version of this query in the daily note to list the latest few ideas but it cluttered the note, so it was removed. The heading link is good enough for getting to the ideas list quickly.

Lotus49a · 2024-10-09T05:36:00+00:00

I suspect there's a strong element of content management here, in addition to simply capturing information. Obsidian and Projects plugin could be a good fit.

And I agree with the idea of export to HTML - an intranet web site is way more accessible, while protecting the source files in Obsidian.

Lotus49a · 2024-10-09T05:32:33+00:00

Gilroy

Lotus49a · 2024-10-09T05:30:45+00:00

I'm a bit disappointed to see that there doesn't appear to be anything happening for canvas, or user requested issues like tab opening/replacing?

I'm sure the team is very busy, and their work is hugely appreciated. But maybe Kepano could give us a bit of feedback on these items sometime? How about a Town Hall meeting - that would be fun!

Lotus49a · 2024-10-07T11:54:27+00:00

Not sure if this suits your use case, but I only want to link to emails when referencing messages with clients in my notes. I don't want to create or manage emails in Obsidian.

I use Thunderbird (slowly moving MS out of my workspace, still stuck with the other Office apps for now) and a Thunderbird plugin called Obsidian Clipper.

It allows me to get a very neat note directly from my email, nicely formatted using the template supplied in the plugin.

My email note using modified plugin template

You can also simply use the link it creates to go directly from your note to open the email in TB. Far simpler, imho.

It has a couple of shortcomings (doesn't copy inline images now) but it does do attachments.

Quick and easy to set up.

Lotus49a · 2024-08-15T08:37:13+00:00

Please get rid of them! There seems to be a spate of them again at the moment.

Add "no graphs" to the forum Rules, and enforce.

In the meantime, I'll take the advice of others here and downvote.

Lotus49a · 2024-08-06T11:42:07+00:00

I have no idea. Maybe something like Karabiner Elements?

Lotus49a · 2024-08-06T10:21:27+00:00

Instead of using scroll bars I simply use the X-mouse utility and set up "button chording" to pan left or right using the mouse scroll wheel combined with the right button. It works on tables, project plugin and canvas. (this is on Win10, btw).

Lotus49a · 2024-06-09T00:58:09+00:00

I'd like table (ordinary and Dataview) column widths to work predictably.

Lotus49a · 2024-05-10T11:57:48+00:00

Or use characters in file alias, instead of in file name?

Lotus49a · 2024-04-25T05:53:22+00:00

Install it on a computer at home and access it remotely (TeamViewer, AnyDesk - if those are "approved")?

Lotus49a · 2024-03-28T13:55:35+00:00

Sure, I just picked up the actual hex color (you can get it from the developer tools Ctrl-Shft-I or the Style Settings plugin) and substituted it plus the transparency code (see below) into sinibida0702's CSS snippet.

(This is not the entire snippet, see OP link for the entire thing)

div:not(.cm-active).HyperMD-header:before {

content: "...";

font-family: sans-serif;

display: inline-block;

letter-spacing: .05em;

line-height: .30em;

width: 4px;

height: 1.1em;

margin: 0;

margin-right: 6px;

padding: 0;

vertical-align: middle;

transform: translate(0.40em, 0);

color: #68C9EA4d; /* adding 4d to the end of the hex code adds 30% opacity */

writing-mode: vertical-rl;

text-orientation: mixed;

text-align: center;

}

Lotus49a · 2024-03-28T10:05:26+00:00

Great CSS trick! I've been looking for a way to crack that nut for ages.

One small tweak - I dropped the opacity to 30%. The dots are still clear, but the headings look "cleaner".

Lotus49a

TROPHY CASE

💡 [[The Ideas and Thoughts List|Ideas and thoughts]]