Ever wondered how to insert colored text into your notes? You can do that with spans.
But what if you didn't want to get your notes too cluttered with spans? What if you wanted to do other modifications on your text? What if you wanted to do some other cool transformations to your text?
With this plugin, now you can.
You can use inline templates that will be rendered in Reading Mode.
This plugin adds three ways to modify text.
| Inline Template | Replaced with |
|---|---|
| <.RED Simple colored template .> | <span style="color:red">Simple colored template</span> |
| <..class Custom class template .> | <span class="class">Custom class template</span> |
| <.func Function template .> | func("Function template") |
The first option is good if you just want to color some text.
The second option works best if you have some css snippets and you want to apply them to some piece of text.
The third option takes a JavaScript function from a configurable location in the root of the vault. This works great if you want to generate some even cooler text.
The templates can also be nested. That is, you can have a template inside another template.
Syntax highlighting is also somewhat supported in Live Preview mode.
Note that the template must have a space between the text to be formatted and the closing template tag.
This plugin runs external JavaScript code. That means that you should not use untested JavaScript code from the internet that you don't know what it does.
The way this feature works is by setting a javascript file. The locations start from the root of the vault.
This file should export multiple functions that take a string and return another string. For instance, the following function will greet the given string:
export function greet(name) {
return "Hello, " + name + "!";
}Note that JavaScript function templates do not transform the text in Live Preview mode. They only work in Reading mode.
Download the latest release of this repository.
Extract the contents of the release inside a folder.
Put the folder in the .obsidian/plugins directory.
Restart Obsidian.
Activate the plugin.
- You can set a CSS prefix which is going to be automatically appended to the class names you use. You can use that to avoid having clashes with other classes, and to avoid having very long names.
- You can nest templates. That means that you can combine them into something even cooler.
- A way to define even more overpowered templates
- Commands to apply a template to selected text
- Templates to modify the background color of some text.
Templater was the biggest inspiration of this project. I wanted to do what I planned using Templater, but then I realised that the document will become even more cluttered, so I had to do something. My plugin should probably work really really well with Templater, but I didn't test it too much.