Keyboard Shortcuts for H1-H

Feature requests
1

Use case or problem

Working with the keyboard only, i can barely format the Headings. Even though I use the Hashtag (MacOS Version), the Headings Formatting are not always recognized.

Proposed solution

Keyboard Shortcuts eg: Option KEy +1 = H1, Option KEy +2 = H2 etc…

Thanks for your feedback.

2

I believe you could use the built-in hotkeys settings with the “Set as heading” commands.

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Possible culprits:

  • The hashes need to start at the beginning of the line, with no indentation.
  • There needs to be a space between the hash(es) and the text.
# Heading
  # Not a heading
#Not a heading either
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I tested this source in reading mode and it should produce headings despite optional 0–3 initial space before #:

·························································
 # heading 1
  ## heading 2
   ### heading 3
   ###       heading 3
   ###           heading 3         ###

What do you think incorporating that syntax to live preview? Typing 1–3 initial spaces into lines have some kind of special function in Obsidian. When you write first line with 1–3 space indentation, that indentation is preserved in the next line automatically:

·························································
  my content in line 1
  my content in the next line <!-- two initial spaces are added automatically! -->

Obsidian has at least three separate indentation‑related settings but I think none of these control the behavior I described above. In any case it stops headings being recognized in live preview which is inconsistent to reading view.

5

I think it’d be a nice UX if the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+1 through 6 were default-assigned to Set as Header 1 through 6. This mirrors gdocs, which a few people might have used.