Clean mode w single temp key press to full interface

Feature requests
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I’m getting close to 2 years into my Obsidian journey. I’ve migrated the last of my data out of Evernote and am very close to uninstalling it. (Yay!)

But, as I load up Obsidian with features, the screen is getting fuller and fuller. Recently I added some plugins to Firefox that blocked a whole bunch of the suggested videos and it was shocking just how much relief there was from a screen that was more blank.

My Obsidian is looking busy. I wish there was a way to clean it up.

I know about and use the zen plugin. I use the for writing and have that set to a quick shortcut of ctrl-alt-z. Very nice.

But, I was wondering, wishing for almost a reverse of the zen idea. What if all you saw on the screen was the single note, and essentially nothing else. And, when you wanted the interface to appear, you would hold down a single key, all the menus, ribbon and sidebars would show up. You would do what you wanted, release the key and you would have your super clean interface only showing your content.

How close is something like this doable with what already exists in Obsidian/Plugin world?

OR

If the interface was hidden and you would mouse to the edge of the screen and everything would show up and once the action was complete or you moused back to the middle, it would disappear again.

I think this would be even better, as what ever I would be doing with the interface, I would be doing with the mouse anyways.

Is this possible?

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I found the Sidebar Expand on Hover plugin. Looks like this should do exactly what I want. But it is old/broken. At least on my install.

The left hover works to pull out the existing panel, but as soon as I hover on that panel’s icons in the top bar in order to change the function of the panel, it closes and I can’t change the function.

I can’t find a place on the right to make the panel slide into view.

So I’m close to what I’m looking for, but still so far away.

Anyone interested in updating this plugin?

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I’ve done some looking into the Sidebar Expand on Hover plugin. I got as far as downloading the source code into Visual Studio Code and installing that version into a test database.

  • It turns out that the version in the Obsidian download list is 3 yrs old.
  • The one on GitHub has been updated in the last 3 weeks and is quite different. It works better, but not completely.
  • The code displayed in GitHub is not the code that I see when i download the plugin into Visual Studio Code.

So, I’m quite confused and not quite sure how this all works. How is it that the plugin is receiving updates on GitHub, but they aren’t being pushed into Obsidian?