Most editors have Enter=New Paragraph as default behaviour. With Shift+Enter= New Line in same Paragraph. This is true in MarkText, Typora, Scrivener, word processors, Focus Writer etc etc. Even Vivaldi’s little note editor. Currently a substantial proportion of users are using or looking for wor…

Thanks. Points well taken. My tongue was very much in my cheek, but I appreciate the background, and I concur that they (those you mentioned) have done a great job, and it is daunting. The issue of whether it is easy or not is different from whether it is a good idea, and that is really what I was s…

I think the way to resolve the “defaults” issue is to have a dialog on first open that asks whether the user wants Obsidian to behave more like a word processor or a code editor. This would change several settings, which could of course be changed independently. There would also be a “master switch”…

Ah, I posted this in Help today [image] Natural paragraphs and line breaks Help Hello, I’m trying to see if I could get in Obsidian the behavior I consider normal, namely: Hitting Enter creates a new paragraph, which is distinguished visually with some vertical space be…

No, this convention is from HTML and the markdown spec.

I would love to see a plugin adding this feature. Coming from both heavy programming and writing (game dev docs) background, I am hoping to use Obsidian rather than a few programs put together for the docs we need. Thank you for the software though, as it is, it’s really good.

Correct you are! Furthermore, the convention allows us to apply Robert Lin’s Semantic line breaks , a minimal version of Mattt’s Semantic Line Breaks (sembr.org) .

Maybe the Hard Breaks plugin might be of help: obsidian://show-plugin?id=hard-breaks .

+1 This would be pretty nice, not having to press enter twice for a new paragraph. I think this is also how it works on mobile.

Coming from Roam Reasearch, I was very pleased to see how smooth, elegant, logical and user friendly everything in Obsidian works. Therefore, I can hardly believe that such a basic feature as creating a line break within a paragraph is not present. This is standard in any editor I used for the last …

Add an Option for Enter = New Paragraph

Feature requests

mrdrwl April 9, 2026, 10:06pm 67

Hi, for anyone looking for Enter = new paragraph, there is a plugin for that: