See, Obsidian does a great job as a knowledge worker / thought processor. It also gives its user the luxury of full ownership. Now, after having such blockbuster features, why it should underperform in the ‘Document portability & sharing’ scene?
I ardently recommend a plugin which allows users to format their notes into formidable ‘Books’ , which are near-professional and suitable for high quality printing.
Such plugin may provide various options like:
Include/Exclude/Select Notes.
Order/Reorder Notes.
Typeset/Template/Theme selection (with further advance options like page numbering, header-footer, etc)
Paper/Book dimensions settings.
Cover page selection.
Several “template pages” like price-copyright page, acknowledgements preface etc)
Export format selection (pdf, EPUB, docx etc).
And so on…
Now some more details:
The template/theme I am referring to in point refers to styling theme of the book. Most plausibly the app themes will suffice.
How this plugin may work under the hood?
Similar to Slides feature, the plugin can just format content of the notes into fixed size pages (pages may span to any number depending on note length, etc) .
The only difference, will be that the plugin will also add some header-footer and those ‘—’ if necessary.
The plugin will actually make a new markdown file in a new vault with all the Selected/Ordered notes and assets into a single markdown file.
And this single file will be rendered (as a book) and exported into PDF etc.
How internal connections and tags will be dealt?
User may get such options like:
Remove links and formatting.
Remove links and keep formatting.
Re-anchor links and remove formatting for empty links.
Re-anchor links and keep formatting for empty links.
PS: I tried designing this idea from existing features, so that developers should be willing to work on this.
However, since I don’t know much about the possibilities, I leave it on community and developers regarding its formulation and implementation.