New to Obsidian, and ran into some annoyances

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Hi all,

I created my vault a few days ago and now I’m using Obsidian as my daily driver.

I ran into some issues and was hoping I could get some help to overcome some of these “annoyances”

1. Markdown and images do not render in Linked Mentions

I saw this being posted several times and the way to fix it was by using a plugin called “Query Control”. I have that installed and it works, BUT, I have to either collapse and un-collapse the linked mentions again or press the “Render markdown” button twice to “refresh” it, and then everything renders correctly.

Is there a way to fix this?

2. Tasks aren’t a tasks if they are indented

I have the Task plugin installed and a simple Dataview to extract all the tasks in my notes. I only discovered today that if I had indented a task, then it won’t be in the Dataview at all. (I actually think that if I indented it, then it won’t be a task either).

Has anyone faced something similar? My workaround is basically to ensure that tasks are at a “parent” level and not indented at all.

3. Copy-pasting into other apps, like Slack requires additional formatting

Sometimes when I write my notes, I like to have a header or a bolded first line, and then bullet points and sub-bullet points beneath that. At times, I share them on Slack (or put them in Google docs).

When I copy and paste these notes, the formatting is messed up. The “indents” in the bullet points in Obsidian (which is set as a tab) get treated as spaces instead and so I’ll have to reformat them in Slack again.

Surely, this one is pretty common to fix?

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You’d be better off making a post for each of your questions so people can know by the title if the problem is one they can help with.

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  1. You don’t need the Task plugin installed for Dataview or Obsidian to use or query tasks.

But you are right, any task or list/bullet element can’t be indented, unless it has a parent list item. If there is a parent list item, they can be indented.

That’s basic Markdown. If you indent a line by itself, it becomes a pre-formatted element.

  1. depending where you’re pasting, try copying from Reading Mode to copy the final rendered elements instead of the Markdown text. You might get a different result. Otherwise you sometimes might need to look into export tools to get to a word processor format you need.
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  • Hitting Ctrl then hovering over the backlink will give a popup displaying the note. It can be scrolled.
  • Ctrl+Click will open the target note in a new tab so you see every related info
  • Alternatively, you can “pin” a tab (right-click the tab to see that option). This way, clicking links will always open the target in a new tab.
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You can try to use tbe “Better search views” plugin instead of “Query control”. It is similar, but less buggy in my experience.

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