Since I use obsidian equally for making notes as well as reading them and intend to use mobile app just as a reading and learning tool, it would be great to have more options in including critic markup mode(apart from the highlight syntax)
Proposed solution
I use Ulysses to draft my essays to publish them on the blog and I really enjoy their version of markdown (markdownXL?) which have options such as
||delete||::highlight::{Annotation} and ++comment++ and %% for comment block
Even the {{foobar}} syntax of roam blocks or iawriter TOC is unused right?
This small change will absolutely be immensely helpful!
Due to its flexibility, Obsidian already suffers from the fact that too many new âlanguage elementsâ are introduced without thinking too much about the side effects. This makes it increasingly less compatible, and we start to build a locked-in platformâagain.
I still think âcritic markupâ might find its use cases, but there is already a version out there, so why not adopt its syntax? And maybe make it a plugin (be it core or community), so users can make their own informed choice?
In short, Critic Markup uses this basic syntax:
Addition {++ ++}
Deletion {-- --}
Substitution {~~ ~> ~~}
Comment {>> <<}
Highlight {== ==}{>> <<}
which should be enough to successfully copy edit text.
Yep, read that. Totally agree. Critic Markup support would be nice for us writers! (Maybe even with an âAccept/Rejectâ feature? From the toolkit they offer, it should be easily adaptable, I think âŚ)
A strong upvote for adding Critic Markup support to Obsidian. Markdown wonât have a prayer of competing with .docx files in organizations, enterprises, and academia without this feature, and it would be equally useful for annotating oneâs own notes and writing.
I even left out change tracking as I found the post would get too long but it is something I very much wish for.
Versioning can to some extent be done manually (I make copies of the evolving file adding 1.0, 1.1 etc. and continue to work on my main file. But this is not a replacement for anything that truly tracks the changes a text goes through over time.
Also, it would open doors towards collaboration, somerthing I also would like to see very muchâŚ
Thank you for pointing me in that direction. And:
+5 BUMP
EDIT:
I was just thinking along the lines of having the changes saved in a separate file so as to not clutter the text itself.
This file could be hidden in the file browser and its content only be displayed in the main file upon specific user request. Maybe a specially adapted form of transclusion would be something to consider.
But I am a total programming noob, so please forgive my stumbling when it comes to suggestions. They originate from a sole user perspective.
I second this- hopefully with interesting views for comments (like showing a counter on the gutter besides the main text, hovering on it showing the comment)
Is there still no usable and unobtrusive means of annotation, commenting, margin-notes, endnotes, GWERN-type markup, etc. to allow for a means of improving the intelligibility and provenance of a given block of text?!?
I mean currently, without a right-clickâathon of doom ; a Franken-plugin ; a YAMLây, human-unfriendly âwe know it ainât markupâ-language^TM ; or an unintuitive, multistep, process â each of which still yields only half-baked, partially-intelligible results, at best â is there truly no way of adding context or comment to content in Obsidian?
(Please donât mention âcall-outsâ⌠Theyâre bloated, static, billboards ; not tools for knowledge workâŚ)
Is Obsidian, THE (imho) Undisputed, Omniweight Champion of the PKM Wars of 2021, still without such an essential feature? A feature that has been present since even the oldest and worst-est of word processing software from the 70âs?
Is this such a niche feature, with so limited interest?
Or am I possibly too dense, so as to have totally overlooked the presence of this crucial capability during my latest RTFM-rounds of the Obsidian Userâs Manual(s)?
Annotation:
noun
a note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram.
Iâve been working on a plugin that implements a CriticMarkup renderer, suggestion mode and comments view within Obsidian.
Iâve released it for alpha testing today, if youâre interested in trying it out:
There is also a thread over in the Discord server for discussing the plugin, you can find a link to it in the #updates channel, or under #plugin-advanced > Commentator.