Outliner plugin is primarily meant to be used with bullets. so your notes should look like this
- Outliner
- sub bullet 1
- sub to sub bullet 1
- sub bullet 2
with that you’ll see the dot to click on. but note that you also need Zoom plugin (by the same dev) for you to have a function on click (which is zooming into the bullet)
p/s: u can use outliner without bullet, but in reading view it will all just rendered unindented.
Thanks @efemkay, I installed the Zoom plugin, still no joy.
This is what I have:
You can see, there are no bullets, Only the Arrow (on hover). Also, you can see the cursor 2nd from bottom line over on the left.
I have the built-in Outliner plug-in disabled (have tried both with and without it). I have returned to the default Theme, in case the community theme wasn’t compatible. I’ve watched as many Youtube tutorials as I can find, and cannot work out why it won’t behave in the way everyone is saying it should???
I’ve just opened LYT Kit 6, and it has the bullets and zooms just fine (with Outline core plug-in on, Outliner and Zoom installed), I even checked which Theme it has, and tried that, still no joy!!!
Hi @Smithy, it looks like maybe you’re prefixing each item in your outline with tabs. In Obsidian they must be prefixed with a dash in order to be treated like an outline.
Also, I believe the Zoom plugin also requires dashes and only works in source mode or live preview mode.
An example is below – source mode on top, reader mode on the bottom:
Version 2.2.5 of the plugin works. Version 2.3.0 does not.
Check to see what version of the plugin you’re using, downgrade to 2.2.5 if necessary.
Here’s how to downgrade:
Go to the releases page, open up the 2.2.5 section, click on main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css to download them to your computer, then move those 3 files to your vault/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-outliner directory. That will overwrite the 2.3.0 files with the 2.2.5 version and you’ll be back in business.
You should be able to tab “another line” to go under “what about”. Do you have the 3 “enhance” options enabled in the plugin settings? Try disabling the other things, just to verify it works ok. I have only the three “enhance” options enabled on my system, and it works well with my Blue Topaz theme. Enabling those options gets all mixed up with what my theme is doing.
In general - you’re gonna have to tweak and try different things depending on your theme - it’s all a bit flaky since obsidian isn’t an outliner, no matter how much we want it to be.
Hi @LeslieP@Craig, Outliner going really well. I just love outlining for organizing work, so useful.
I’d like to put a request in to make Obsidian more ‘Outline friendly’, but can you help me with one more question. When you have the indents, and there is the vertical line, shouldn’t you be able to click on the line to close the whole thread?
When I open up an older page, it might have all the indents open, and for navigational clarity I want everything closed. Is there a shortcut to close, or open, everything, the whole page, to the highest Indent levels?
In Settings there’s an option to fold outlines, which will create a little widget in edit mode that allows you to fold an outline item’s children. I don’t think it works in reader mode though.