The ability to zoom into a header just like how you can in most outliners like Dynalist (see screenshot below), Roam, outliner plugin in Obsidian etc. It helps with large documents to “focus” your efforts on that particular “section”. And then have a “breadcrumb” at top of page showing your “zoom location”.
Proposed solution
Similar to this screenshot from Dynalist. “Hooked - autopilot response…” would be a H3 header that you zoomed into. “Emotional Agility” and “Hooked” would have been for example H1 and H2 parents of it.
I use the collapse/expand functions of headings in Obsidian to somewhat hide things I don’t want to focus on, but then whatever setting I have chosen doesn’t stick when I reopen Obsidian.
So being able to zoom in and out would be fantastic.
Eagerly waiting for this feature to be implemented.
I’ve been using obsidian majorly for daily notes and writing research articles and I can’t stress much the importance of focus while preparing such large documents
BUT: I find it useful only if it is implemented as cleanly as it has been done on Dynalist (with nicely designed breadcrumbs etc). Otherwise it becomes confusing. That’s why I keep turning the outliner plugin on/off
For those who can’t wait - there is a hacky/wacky plugin that implements this. Basically, that’s just an outliner functionality that was extracted and placed into the plugin to work with headers. It wasn’t placed in the community plugins section because of a lack of polishing and cross-feature implementation.
Known issue - it’s doesn’t play good with the outliner zoom feature (you can zoom in header and outliner, so like twice zooming, two breadcrumbs, etc)
I and @vslinko (outliner plugin creator) thinking what zooming functionality can be extracted from the outliner plugin and can be placed as a separate plugin with headers zooming with it).
Found this thread because I thought the obsidian-zoom plugin was missing the ability to zoom into headers.
Turns out it does – just not (currently) via the mouse. With obsidian-zoom installed, place the cursor on a heading row and use the keyboard shortcut (cmd+. or ctrl+. if you’re on Mac/Windows) to zoom. (Optional step 2: rejoice)
