Hi! I hate to jump on this topic only to report bugs, but Minimal Theme has made my use of Obsidian 1000% more enjoyable for almost a year now, and I can’t get myself to use any other theme.
Basically, backlinks don’t work properly with some notes, and when you click on some backlinks it takes you to the top instead of going to the specific place where the other note was referenced. It’s hard to reproduce, since I can’t identify any differences between the notes in which it works and those in which it doesn’t, but this happens in enough notes for me to notice it on a daily basis.
I tested this on Safe Mode, with all plug-ins turned off, but I forgot to disable them for the screenshots. When I found a note in which the bug was present, I disabled Minimal and went back to the default theme, and the bug resolved. Turned Minimal back on, and the bug came back. I didn’t have time to record a more detailed demonstration, but here are a few important things I’ve discovered about this bug:
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This only happens on Preview Mode. If I’m on Edit Mode, the backlinks work fine on Minimal.
- When clicking on a backlink while on Preview Mode, the note opens at the top but it flashes or jumps for a split second, which indicates the app actually tries to do something (scroll to the place on the note in which the previous note is cited), but fails to do so correctly.
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This also happens with my back-up theme configuration, which is the vanilla Obsidian theme plus the Advanced Appearence plug-in. This could be really useful when troubleshooting, since I assume the Advanced Appearence CSS might be simpler, and the bug must be something that is present in both Minimal Theme and your plug-in (which is also great, btw).- I did disable Advanced Appearence for those screenshots, so this isn’t an incompatibility between the theme and the plug-in. All changes to the default Minimal Theme were made using the dedicated Minimal Theme Settings plug-in.
Hope this exploration saves you some work and helps you pinpoint what could be causing this. Like I said, it is a rather specific bug, so I don’t know if you’ll be able to reproduce it. I don’t know if it is triggered by notes that are too long, or notes that have too many backlinks, but since switching to Default fixes it every time, I’m sure there’s something that can be done about the theme and the plug-ins.
EDIT: Just found and occurrence in which backlinks work with both the Default Theme and Default Theme + Advance Appearence, but not with Minimal. This makes my previous statement about the bug being present in both Minimal and Advanced Appearence invalid.