Zen mode and Typewriter mode for focused writing

[jarodise]

Zen mode: Everything is hidden except the editor.
Typewriter mode: where the scrolling is can be fixed to one part of the screen and the text that’s being currently edited can be highlighted.

Both of these features are available in MD editors like Ulysses and iAWriter.

[Lithou]

This would be nice. Also an option to toggle full screen on the active pane that would remember where multi pane setups were previously and return to that state when fullscreen was toggled off.

[ryanjamurphy]

I have used death.au’s work (Simple focus mode (CSS tweak)) to develop a way to do this with automation:

Zen/focus mode with automation

What this is Want to be able to do this? [2020-07-29 13.38.38] Do It Yourself Requirements Follow the tweaking instructions provided here to develop a set of CSS that can recolour your interface so that only your active line is emphasized. You will need to have colours for your usual interface, and then faint versions of those colours for text you want dimmed. Instructions The basic logic of this automation is: on some trigger: find the obsidian.css file if the file already conta…

[dsteinbock]

The Typewriter Mode feature request has its own thread:

Typewriter scrolling

Writing apps like iA Writer and Scrivener have a feature called typewriter scrolling which keeps the cursor centered in the viewport as you type. It’s one of those things I didn’t know I needed until I had the chance to try it out! If it’s not too much work, it’d be a quick win in attracting the writing crowd to Obsidian. Here’s what it looks like in iA Writer: [ezgif.com-gif-maker]