#1

It would be great to have a read only viewer for the Obsidian files/folders which supports all the Obsidian specific features (internal linking and so on).

I very often create technical documents, tutorials. I am planning to do all the edit in Markdown or better said in Obsidian.

Of course i could ask every user who wants to use my tutorials to use Obsidian, but there is a risk, that the non technical users change the files by mistake.

A read only viewer would avoid this and would allow other users to view the created Obsidian files without the risk of changing them.

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#2

Interesting. Would you consider this idea significantly different from the upcoming Publish feature (i.e., a web view of your vault?)

#3

In case you didn’t know, you can change default mode to preview, so all links and files open in preview mode.

#4

I’ve read about the publish feature. If that feature does an export and export would be an exact copy (not meant as copy of file) of the obsidian files/folders structure (including working internal links and so on) then of course a viewer would not be needed.

I just thought to mention that a viewer app would also be a nice addition.

#5

Yes i know, but the risk that unexperienced readers would switch to edit mode and change the files would be there. A read only viewer would be much simpler and would just allow to open a folder.

I do not know in what timeframe the new export feature is planned. Therefore i thought creating a simple ObsidianViewer without the Editmode would be a nice workaround until the export feature is available.