I made this plugin because I already had hotkeys for this using “Wrap With Shortcuts”, but they were limited and clunky. I wanted a simpler and more well-integrated tool to accomplish this so I whipped up a small plugin. One of the things I love about Obsidian is how local and uncomplicated it tries to be, and I keep my setup near-minimal. In that spirit, I attempted to adhere to that ethos with this plugin as well.
It adds buttons to your status bar (as well as a few commands) to color/highlight blocks of text. You can customize the list of colors in the settings menu.
I’m considering submitting it as a community plugin but I’m not entirely committed yet. I don’t really plan on adding much more to it, I designed it to be simple to solve a very simple problem. For now you can install it directly from my Github or using BRAT (which is a proper community plugin you can find in the app). It’s pretty hot-off-the-presses and hasn’t been fully put through its paces, so there may be bugs.
Let me know if you find it useful!