#5

Moved to plugin ideas

#6

This would be probably what’s been asked here.

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Minimap: "Where am I in this way too long document?"
Breadcrumb / path display / list view for "How'd I get here"
#7

Typora offers the possibility (with a css), as a “togglable” option, to have all headers and subheaders listed in a TOC in a sidepane. That way, when one has a long document, one always has the TOC on the side and click to a relevant header when navigating.

With some css it is even possible to have the (sub)headers numbered.

I use this a lot and would like it in Obs too.

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#8

I’ve definitely seen this one mentioned a lot in various places, especially back when we were doing suggestions on the discord…if it doesn’t get added now, I hope someone will make it as a plugin once plugins are possible. It’s really excellent for navigating longer notes.

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#9

@Saros before submitting this proposal I searched to see if there wasn’t a similar one already because, like you, I also thought to have seen it. But I did not find it. I hope one of the moderators will find the other TOC proposals and bundle them into one, and hope that it will get some love. I am dying to transfer my non-Obs markdown notes into Obs, but this is stopping me. I have a collection with some very long notes, so a TOC is absolutely essential for that.

Having said that, I really appreciate Obs and think it will turn out to be a winner in the the not too distant future.

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#10

A very important feature, for sure!
But it would also be very useful to save the reading position for each note.

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#11

My personal opinion is that this is best done in a plug-in, maybe first party but probably third party

#12

I think @Silver liked this idea. This may happen sooner than later.

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#13

I wrote a similar suggestion in plug-in ideas, but I referred to it as an outline rather than TOC…same idea tho.

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#14

But it would also be very useful to save the reading position for each note.

That’s a different issue.

#15

That would be soooooo nice. I sincerely hope she’ll get it done. I’ll be able to move the rest of my md files over to Obs.

#16

Between the 10 votes for your plug-in idea and 10 for my feature request we have 20 votes. Indeed, the 2 requests should be merged.

Anyhow, as @WhiteNoise said, @Silver likes this idea, so hopefully it’ll get implemented soon, one way or the other.

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Support table of content [toc]
#17

Since it will still be implemented as a plugin, I’ll merge it with the other post (that one is slightly older too). Do you mind?

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#18

No, I don’t mind @Silver, I am very happy about it because that improves “visibility” of the user need.

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#19

I think this can be merged with this topic Note outliner, can it?

I think building on this, what is needed is a way to quickly rearrange sections like typical outliners have. Say, in order to rearrange topics in an outline for an essay.

Microsoft Word can do this, RoamResearch and Dynalist do, of course, but also org-roam with plain text-based documents.

#20

In the meantime, collapsing a section and then copying does copy all the children to that item.

#21

Isn’t this even a default Typora feature, no CSS involved ?
It’s accessible with “Ctrl+Shift+1”, replacing the file panel (accessible with “Ctrl+Shift+2” or 3 depending on your choice of file tree vs file list).

I just love Typora so much

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#22

You are absolutely right. I was thinking about the numbering of headers that requires a css. Anyway, I amended my comment as per your criticism.

I love Typora a lot too, I use it every day. What it does, it does well, but its features are limited compared with Obsidian. I want to get away from using 2 apps, so when Obs will offer ToC in a sidepane, and WYSIWYG later this year, I will transfer my Typora notes to Obs.

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#23

The same for me :slight_smile:

#24

Today I had to do some serious outlining for a 30-page article my friends came up with. I did in Dynalist, works perfect. I now think that a Dynalist + Obsidian app or Obsidian + Dynalist plugin would be a killer app kicking the ass of Roam and others.

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