Keep a log of notification bubbles (toast)

Use case or problem

When you are trying to recall notifications, there is nowhere to find a log of them.

Proposed solution

If there were a log, it would be much easier to understand what the notifications were communicating. Sometimes you are distracted, or there are multiple in quick succession, or you simply forget.

Current workaround

Take screenshots.

Related feature requests

Some related threads: Where do error messages go to die after being displayed?, Message bubble does not display long enough, Notification toast disappears too fast

Thanks!

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this constantly vexes me, and I hope it gets addressed. I’m surprised more people don’t mention it. Several times per week, I’ll get a bubble with complicated and important information shown with no way to see the whole message and no time to read it all even if it were all displayed.

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+1 for this. Toast vs console log notification implementation between different plugins is inconsistent, and if I had a way to universally disable toasts but log everything, I’d enable that in a heartbeat. The fact that toasts don’t get logged at all is baffling!

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had the same problem. Notice logger - captures notification ā€˜toasts’ in the console. can be accessed via ā€˜Ctrl + Shift + I’ > ā€˜Console’ panel

i’ve set the prefix to ā€œ:bell:ā€ for easy sorting

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Use case or problem

Read missed notifications

Proposed solution

A status bar button to open a list of latest notifications. Like Visual Studio Code.

Use case or problem

Whenever I get notifications on mobile I can’t go back and read them. When I am on desktop it is fine cause I can open the chrome inspector and read them in the console.

It is so annoying when you get more than 5 notifications that pop up when you open Obsidian and miss some cause you simply can’t read fast enough.

Proposed solution

Have a place in settings for ā€œNotificationsā€ or a bell icon by the settings icon for them so you can read all the ones that have come in since you last restarted Obsidian.

Current workaround (optional)

There isn’t one for mobile but desktop is the chrome inspector.

Related feature requests (optional)

N/A - I didn’t find any.

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