I need to read those messages

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What I’m trying to do

When I start Obsidian, it says it’s loading plugins. Then the home screen displays and a series of messages appear in the upper right corner. They are still for about half a second, and then they scroll off the screen. I haven’t been able to read a single one. I have the impression they’re error messages from plugins, but I can’t know, because I can’t read them.

Things I have tried

I searched the forum for “read messages” and “read opening messages”. There was one similar question, from 2023, titled, " The message of invalid characters does not last enough to read." The solution was, “Please open a feature request for this.”
As for what I did in the app, there isn’t much to do. I can’t select and capture them, and if there’s a way to freeze the scrolling, I don’t know what it is. So do they scroll off into hyperspace, or are they saved somewhere so I can go read them in real time?

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I would make a screen recording while opening Obsidian, so I could play it back slowly or pause it (of course, you shouldn’t have to do that.)

They might be viewable in the developer console. To access it, you can use the following keyboard combinations:

  • Windows: CTRL + SHIFT + i
  • MacOS: CMD + OPTION + i
  • Linux: CTRL + SHIFT + i

For iOS/iPadOS and Android, we recommend the community plugin Logstravaganza, which outputs the console message into a markdown note for easy access.

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Thank you. I’ll resort to screen recording. CTRL + SHIFT + ↓ didn’t appear to have any effect.