A simple plugin for coloring/highlighting text: Markup

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!

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Hi, this plugin is great, but does it have the option to change the font color and add a marker to the same word? Another thing that would be nice would be the option to add a tooltip to the words as well, it would be very useful.

Thanks!

Can you give me an example of what you mean by ‘adding a marker’? As for the tooltip you mean by hovering your mouse over the text and making a tooltip appear like it does on buttons?

I used the wrong expression, instead of marker it would be highlight, and in relation to the tooltip, that would be it