Personal style

[HA_CoOP]

What I’m trying to do

I want to take “personal” notes in the notes. For example, I am reading a paper, taking notes from that paper with quotes as below, and I like to add my personal view. Below is an example, I took the part in “” from the paper and the part `` is my opinion.

“Whether low TMB cancers, which are largely refractory to immunotherapy, harbor potentially immunogenic neoantigens remains unclear.” `yeah, I guess and hope so. otherwise, it would trigger auto-immune reactions.’

It works well with the code-block, because it is inline. However, it is not visible when I need to skip my notes, because I cannot change the color, style, or highlight the text of code-block.

In an ideal world, I would like to have a personal style that I could switch while I am writing, quickly. Thus, `` or /HA (which was my style in LaTeX, where I defined it with a new comment) would work well.

Simply, I need a personal style that I can

• switch quickly while writing, inline with the normal text
• change the color, style, and background color

Things I have tried

I have spent some time in the forum, but could not find a solution that meets everything I need. Here are some items I have tried with the explanations why they did not work.

I switched to the Prism theme and changed the h6 into a different color, style, highlight box, etc. But it is not inline, which is a deal for me. Also, I cannot switch easily.

I also tried the plugin “Highlightr”. The problem is, it requires:

<mark style="background: #FFB8EBA6;">hallmark</mark>

How on earth could writing this be easy? I know there is a quick access by the right-click, but it requires me to go to the mouse, it is not “while writing”. Yet, I will use it, if that is the only way to do so…

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[multisn8]

Hi! I’m pretty much starting out with using Obsidian so I don’t know much yet, but I think I have 3 approaches for you:

1. Markdown has ==, when put before and after text ==like this==, Obsidian highlights it specially:
   
   You could customize this through the span.cm-highlight selector, don’t forget to mark your rules with !important.

2. The Highlightr plugin seems to have entries in the command prompt, so you could link those with hotkeys.

3. • GitHub - artisticat1/obsidian-latex-suite: Make typesetting LaTeX as fast as handwriting through snippets and text expansion for example is a plugin allowing the definition of snippets.
   • If your primary motivation is to type, the Highlightr plugin seems to only add sugar for what’s already possible without it, since <mark> is a casual HTML tag.

   Combining those two, maybe a snippet like this could do the job with shortening the <mark... stuff:

   {trigger: "/HA", replacement: "<mark style=\"background: #FFB8EBA6;\">$0</mark>$1", options: "tAw"}
   

   Remove the w if you want to use /HA midway into a word, I encourage you to take a trip through the readme of the plugin for more detail.

Hope this helps~

[multisn8]

…oh, wow. Didn’t realize the post was tagged with custom-css. Since selecting an inline code block in Ctrl + Shift + I shows this chonker as applied rule in the Styles tab below in the debugger, I guess you can use the same rule to set the background color of an inline codeblock to whatever you want:

.cm-s-obsidian span.cm-inline-code:not(.cm-formatting):not(.cm-hmd-indented-code):not(.obsidian-search-match-highlight) {
    background: #FFB8EBA6;
}

[HA_CoOP]

1. yes, == works, but without a style change. I do not know what you mean with span.cm-highlight selector and !important (I am sorry for my ignorance). I assume it is a new snippet? Maybe because of the PRISM theme, the snippets I added (simply by writing with txt editor and saving as .css under the ‘snippets’ folder, under obsidian settings, and turning it on) did not work. I might have missed the !important though, I will work on it.

2. The Highlightr plugin: correct! I defined for one color of the highlight and that’s what I am using currently. Again, without a style change.

Both options above interfere with my highlighting, for which I have a personal coding and it is vital for me. So, yes, they are solutions, but not perfect. Yeah, I am asking a lot, but maybe not?

3. • GitHub - artisticat1/obsidian-latex-suite: Make typesetting LaTeX as fast as handwriting through snippets and text expansion
     This is absolutely great for LaTeX veterans! Thank you!!!
     I am ‘triggered’ to try it for not only background, but also font-family. I could not successfully achieve it yet, though. What I mean is:

{trigger: "/HA", replacement: "<mark style=\"background: #FFB8EBA6; font-family: 'Noteworthy'\">$0</mark>$1", options: "tAw"}

I will work on this and inform you. Though, as I said, I still could not make the snippets work. It will take some time.

Thank you for the inspiration!

[HA_CoOP]

" Didn’t realize the post was tagged with custom-css."
Please do not overestimate my tagging abilities I thought this could be done through a custom snippet.

Unfortunately, none of my background color change attempts for the codeblock in the original apps.css was successful. Therefore, I asked here.

[CawlinTeffid]

You should absolutely be able to restyle inline code with a CSS snippet. I don’t know the details, but someone in the #appearance channel of Obsidian’s Discord should be able to help you.