UI/GUI changed and it is not good

What I’m trying to do

I accidently hit some buttons in Command Pannel and I don’t know how to undo those changes. I want to get back to the normal obsidian. Right now it looks like this:


the heading is to much to the left and thus right above the line numbers. GUI elements are too big compared to the note text. I want to get back to the normal obsidian :slight_smile:

Things I have tried

I have tried changing some settings of the Hider Plugin. Should I maybe reinstall Obsidian?

I’m sorry but what do you mean by “normal” Obsidian? :sweat_smile:
What is actually wrong in the screenshot you shared ?

From what I can see, I think that the New at the top (above the line numbers) isn’t a heading but the “inline title” of the note (which is a setting you can disable in Obsidian's settings > Appearance > Show inline title)

I have no idea if this is what’s wrong in your vault though :sweat_smile:

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Yeah you are right that the New is the title. But it was there before it is just weird that the line numbers are right beneath it. But I understand that it is just really difficult to help with this problem.
There is just a lot of stuff that looks not like before in size. I think it was caused by some weird difference with cmd + -/+ and my touch pad zoom. There is a difference and it is really annoying. Cmd + +/- includes the whole obsidian UI and touch pad zoom only the note text and not the UI elements like the status bar. Somehow it didn’t went well.
I am thinking about what to do next because these changes in size/UI just feel like the most terrible thing on earth because you just got so well used to look before. Is it smart to reinstall Obsidian or just to get used to some new setting? It hurts

CTRL (CMD) plus + and - (plus and minus) are for setting zoom levels. You can try pressing them without any fear.
In the Appareance settings, you can turn off the font sizing as I did too:

You can adjust zoom size as well.

Pertinent settings in Hotkeys section:

In case you want to feel secure that you have your settings always the same, you can:

  • Save workspaces (core Workspaces plugin)
  • Keep copies of the workspace.json file in .obsidian config folder.

But the zoom percentages are not stored (at least not saveable by the user) anywhere, so you need to adjust zoom yourself.

Yeah ok I need to safe the workspace then next time. There are just too many things that changed and I don’t know how to undo them.


So I think I will reinstall the programm. What should I keep in mind before I reinstall Obsidian?

I don’t think re-installing Obsidian will change anything as the vault settings are stored in the hidden configuration folder (.obsidian)

Meaning that even if you re-install Obsidian, Obsidian will still use what it finds in that folder (and its content: plugins, css snippets, etc…) for the UX/UI of your vault :blush:

This is why Yurcee above suggested you to :

  • Keep copies of the workspace.json file in .obsidian config folder.

… as each time you open/close a note, decide to hide/unhide the left ribbon, change what should appear in the left ribbon, modify the sorting of the Files explorer within the left sidebar … and other similar interactions (:sweat_smile:), Obsidian saves these info with the workspace.json in the hidden .obsidian

Now, we know you use the Hider plugin, but other community plugins can interact with/modify Obsidian’s vanilla UI/UX… and without more info about your vault (the debug info could potentially help :blush: … you can get them from the command palette by looking for the command show debug info), I sadly think it’ll be a bit hard to know what you could have accidentally triggered to lead you to the “not normal” Obsidian UI :no_mouth:

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SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.6.7
Installer version: v1.6.3
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.0.0: Mon Aug 12 20:49:48 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.1.10~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 24.0.0
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 1
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 30
Plugins enabled: 19
1: Quick Switcher++ v4.5.1
2: Periodic Notes v0.0.17
3: Natural Language Dates v0.6.2
4: Open In New Tab v1.0.9
5: Templater v2.7.3
6: Calendar v1.5.10
7: Kanban v2.0.51
8: Style Settings v1.0.9
9: Pane Relief v0.5.5
10: Footnote Shortcut v0.1.3
11: Hider v1.5.1
12: Remember cursor position v1.0.9
13: Omnisearch v1.24.1
14: Auto Link Title v1.5.4
15: Journey v0.0.7
16: Settings Search v1.3.10
17: Vimrc Support v0.10.1
18: PDF++ v0.40.11
19: Excalidraw v2.5.1


Could I not make screenshots of all of my settings, delete the full/parts of workspace.json file and then reinstall?

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Heyo, Imma try my best.
I assume you have a problem with all the whitespace on the left/ right of your text.
If thats the case, try the following:

  1. open settings
  2. navigate to “Editor”
  3. check if the second setting (“Readable line length”) is turned on (switch to the right)
  4. if the before mentioned setting is active, turn it off
  5. finally reset the zoom that you might have changed due to previous answers
    Then check if everything works as expected.

Here a screenshot to clarify which setting I mean

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Now we are here:

Alr. This seems to have fixed it.
What further problems do you encounter?
If its the zoom level, move to the “Appearance” section in settings. scroll down to “Advanced” and reset the zoom level

The note looks to left-justified and not centered, while the 0 - Inbox/New is still centered and not above the note.

It is weird that the line numbers are right beneath the title and not more to the left.

while the 0 - Inbox/New is still centered and not above the note.

So this is the expected behaviour. The 0- Inbox/New is just the path to the note and always shown on top with default settings.
The other stylistic problems might be solvable using the markdown syntax or some specific settings.

But as far as I can see everything is behaving as expected from a settings pov

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I also realised that somehow notes are often in reading mode even though I have live preview as the default mode