+1
hope this can get prioritized
+1
hope this can get prioritized
+1
I submitted a similar request here a few months back:
Ah, this, so much this! One of my big use cases of Obsidian is tracking documents on key projects, and of course, these always have external hyperlinks.
So my backlinks look like
…and it makes it incredibly challenging to scan my backlinks, making them much less useful
+1 this would be an amazing UX improvement that would encourage more usage of the backlinks feature
+1
Having unrendered markdown show up in query results and backlinks (or in any context) when everything else is a live preview is … jarring.
I’ve got external links to documents with long URLs that make the search result less useful due to the clutter.
A query for task-todo that returns unrendered checkboxes is … jarring.
EDIT: Replaced screenshot with one that shows the core search results on the left and the plugin results on the right.
Check out the Query Control plugin. You may need to use BRAT to install the beta
+1 to this
+1
It is very useful to tag certain equations but in the search results they are hard to identify because mathjax is not rendered.
I have the query control plugin installed and I like it a lot but the backlinks are often from the previous page when navigating your vault. Both in live preview as is source view.
Just clicking on the linked references header (closing and opening it again) solves it but it is an issue as I sometimes forget to do that and the wrong references are shown.
Just bumping the feature request. Ive given Obsidian a try 1-2 years ago and there were 3 main things that pushed me away(+no whiteboards, now with canvas i came back) - and despite appearing to be a ‘less relevant nitpick’ turns out to be bigger then the others because it gets in the way all the time- on backlinks, on search, making it a pain to even use the features.
I barely used backlinks and search then, also now on my second try- and i only realized how much this one thing is the culprit in my time with Logseq. After obsidian i was using Logseq - and all of a suddenly i was tapping on backlinks (and searching) like never before
Just returned to Obsidian and once again im avoiding the backlinks
I would also add, besides rendering, there should be a option/toggle/setting to making backlinks show the entire block of a mention by default.
This is most relevant to trully atomic notes (some barely beyond its title), where the main purpose is looking at the conections(backlinks). A presentable, readable render of those is a must for me, and from this topic many others
Im seriously considering filling my notes with redundant code, the query plugin, just to get this one thing… and it pains me to do so, since it screams ‘core’, the way it should be- and i hope will be someday… id rather not have to manually add said plugin code on every note already existing, and later removing when this is finally fixed.
Sorry if i sound blunt, but this barely feels like a feature request- it detracts so much from the rest of the ui and experience it feels more like a bug, a never fixed bug in 2 of the main areas of the ux (search and backlinks)
Sorry for the tone, just trying to convey my pain (and i was surprised it wasnt fixed after all the time ive been away), hope you devs get the feedback to the heart… im constantly thinking back on Logseq while im using obsidian on this alone
Just bumping
after all this while, i feel this should already be implemented. so i’m posting here reasons why it should get priority as a way to solicit the dev team.
hope this get their attention
p/s: also, i’m afraid NIL aren’t going to upkeep the query control plugin (noting that it hasn’t been updated for almost a year…)
+10000 I feel like this request may not be getting the attention it deserves because there are so many duplicate feature requests on this topic; perhaps no single one gets enough traction to get the visibility and priority it deserves.
For me, this feature is a deal-breaker. Other competing products have this capability and have it enabled by default. I appreciate the NIL plugin, but I find that it doesn’t work as expected all the time and I wonder about its long term support. This functionality really needs to be baked into the core product or as at least as a core plugin.
Thanks!
I’m going to say +1 to this.
Links are so fundamental to Obsidian, the synapses of the brain. Backlinks are important to so many workflows, help in discovery, resurfacing etc. So many tutorials, guides, how-tos, etc. all talk about using backlinks. And they are correct. QueryControl makes Obsidian’s backlinks workable, what they should be out of the box. It would be nice if it was included in the box
TBH at first I thought it was a bug that it’s not rendered properly. If you use a lot of formatting, having the source displayed makes it barely useful
I’ve signed up just to bump this one.
I appreciate all the work the team has done. I believe in what Obsidian is about but the low quality UI/UX has always been a challenge for me to work with, until the more recent changes and improvements across the whole UI. I kept coming back to Obsidian and leaving for the likes of Craft. Hopefully this time I’m here to stay, at least for my knowledge system. The live mode is amazing and overall the user interface feels significantly better.
That said, there’s still significant room to improve, to get up to the level of some of the other apps out there. Obsidian does so many things significantly better than others, but I think a UI/UX lead from one of the competitors who’s done a good job could get it up there to perfect levels. We might consider it for business too if so.
Search results and Linked/Unlinked mentions rendering they way they do is very messy. It’s not pleasing to look at and just terrible to navigate. If the team can’t see this since the initial post here (May 20), then that’s another reason to hire a UI/UX lead that understands how to make software beautiful and pleasing to work with.
An exceptional UI/UX + Obsidian power will be unstoppable.
I hope this gets prioritised one day.
Be sure to the first post. That will be the “bump”.
Left Obsidian for Logseq a long time ago due to this, hopefully one day it will be implemented.