Automatic highlighting of TODO, ADD, REMOVE keywords

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Sometimes I make the outline of a note but just don’t have the time to finish it. So I add the #unfinished tag to it and at the top of the file I add a list with things I still want to add to the note. Example:

  • ADD: a picture.
  • ADD: blabla.

But then it becomes a little hard to see at a glance where the note starts and what the list of things to add is. So my question is if it would be possible to create a plugin for it. A lot of code editors have this functionality. I can’t be the only one that would benefit from such a highlighter.

Maybe something very simple would suffice. Something like Emacs org-mode where you just set a delimited string with words that are then highlighted with a default color.

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+1
and perhaps gives the ability to customize the keywords.

3

vscode have a highlight plugin, looking forward to have a similar plugin in obsidian

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checkout obsidian-dynamic-highlights plugin

TODO filter json example:

{
“Filler-TODO”: {
“class”: “Filler-TODO”,
“color”: “#2D801838”,
“regex”: true,
“query”: “TODO”,
“mark”: [
“match”
],
“css”: “.cm-line .Filler-TODO{\n\tbackground-color: #33691e;\n\tcolor: white;\n}”
}
}

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You could just set up a text expander like Espanso so (for example) ;ad expands to ==ADD:== or (if you want it bulleted) - ==ADD:== , etc.