Edit transcluded (embedded) notes (blocks) in place (likely requires WYSWYG first)

Thanks for testing and there was an issue which has now been fixed in 0.1.1.

Here’s a quick demo

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I will also once again personally restate that I would much prefer this feature to be supported natively instead of as a community plug-in feature. Speaking with other plug-in developers such as the dev for Hover Editor, we all share the same view. I was hoping that with the release of canvas which has a component that acts pretty close these blocks would mean first-party support soon, but the wait continues.

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Unfortunately I found this to be quite buggy still.

Adding my voice to the desire for this feature. It surprised me that it wasn’t to be honest. Pretty disappointing.

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Same here. Please add this feature! We’ve been waiting for it for 4 years and is obvious people want it.

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I wonder if the dynamic views work upcoming on the roadmap will impact this FR? If we can edit properties via dynamic views, then maybe that opens the door for displaying (and editing) the note content as well?

This is an optimistic musing, nothing more - I have no idea if that makes underlying architectural sense or it’s the dev’s intent. But nice to think about :slight_smile:

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I’ve started using Obsidian in a move to get away from Notion, and I really feel the absence of certain features such as this one.

Adding my voice to the masses.

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What? why not? this is basic.

I would like to add my voice to request this feature too.

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I waited so long for this feature that I ended up implement a whole new software:

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+1 here.
This and the missing ability to print or at least export PDF (same as note is rendered), especially on mobile, are the two things that still feel a bit clunky.

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Block Link Plus has implemented this in a recent update. Though I found it to be quite buggy. To enter edit mode, hover over an embed and select ‘Toggle Flow’:

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Most wanted feature!

Dear developers, let the full wind be in your sails working on this! Good luck!

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I switched from Roam to Obsidian on 2022-09-03 and have never regretted it. I miss Roam’s outliner but can live without it.

I’m currently changing my system to be more project-focused, and recently I have been missing Roam’s transclusions that allowed editing. While it’s cool that mouse-overs in Obsidian allow of some editing, I tried that flow yesterday and it’s very awkward because the window disappears sometimes and (I haven’t interrogated this) opens sublinks it shouldn’t.

I’m guessing this is impossible for technical reasons, but I remember clearly how amazing it was in Roam. There isn’t any better alternative to Obsidian today, but I think this constant friction is going to make me open-minded to switching in a way that I haven’t been before.

Edit to add: I have a personal project that uses my markdown notes for memory and configuration. It’s mostly voice-based, and I use Obsidian as the “frontend” for the most part. This has worked incredibly well, and I feel like I’m outgrowing that only because of stuff like this, and the outliner, stuff that feels very fixable as a SWE who doesn’t know FE.

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Yes that block links plugs plugin is not very usable tbh with the bugs.

This FR is by far those most valuable to me. It would change everything about my workflow.

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We really need this feature. My use case is to embed all of my daily notes in one monthly view via Dataview and then to be able to check the boxes of any tasks.

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Would be nice to hear from the obsidian team - is this even technically feasible? can we expect that this feature will ever get looked at?

Adding one more voice to the crowd. This would be a game changer for my workflow. Especially if combined with the new Bases feature. The way I imagine it is as a new view for a base, displaying the content of all selected notesäblocks one after another, as synced embeddings (instead of cards, for example).

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I had a go making a plugin that attempts to solve this - kinda bringing notion synced blocks to obsidian. Search sync-embeds on github. Would love any feedback!

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Do you have a URL one can get it?