Provide ability to render md (e.g. images and links) in the Mentions area

[dsteinbock]

Here are a few related discussions:

Backlinks appear as raw markdown code

Hi There, I was wondering if there is a way to show backlinks (linked mentions) not as markdown source code but as interpreted markdown? thanks, Samuel What I’m trying to do

Logseq-y behavior - can we make something similar?

Hi all. I love Obsidian for so many reasons, but there’s a feature that is inherent in Roam or Logseq that I can’t recreate here, but maybe someone here would have an idea: In my work, I have regular 1:1 meetings with people on a weekly basis (same people every week). In Logseq, I can go to my daily note and then sum up my meetings like so: [[Dude one]] notes notes notes notes notes more notes and some to-do’s etc. [[Dude two]] notes etc and then, when I go to Dude one’s page, I se…

And the currently proposed solution a “beta” plugin — which I didn’t know was a thing — Obsidian-Query-Control:

Rendering the markdown in the query/search results

Let’s go to the topic directly. The built-in query and research function is very powerful for text searching. However, the search results returned are just plain texts. And I think many people would prefer a result looks similar to the live preview mode. And I kept wondering why there is no such a core plugin or 3-rd party plugin that can do this. Accidentally, I red this post and found that there is a plugin, but is experimental, that can do this job: A very cool example of the use case is…

All that said, I support this feature request — it would be a lot easier if Obsidian core simply rendered markdown in Linked Mentions and other query-based views, instead of plain text.