nnkn / obsidian-prettify

A markdown prettifier for obsidian

Markdown prettifier for Obsidian

Tries to fix and reformat ugly Markdown and adds things like 'modified date' etc.

The default hotkey is Ctrl+Alt+L.

Examples

Hashtags janitor

Say you have:

A #new and #exciting paragraph!

After 'Update fields':

---
tags:
    - '#new'
    - '#exciting'

---

A #new and #exciting paragraph!

Update values in the frontmatter

Before:

I wrote this, but I don't remember when!

After:

---
date updated: '2020-11-23T16:47:37+01:00'
---

I wrote this, but I don't remember when!

Autolink literals

Example

Before:

www.example.com, https://example.com, and [email protected].

After:

[www.example.com](http://www.example.com), <https://example.com>, and <[email protected]>.

Ordered lists

Normalizes ordered lists.

Example

Before:

1. foo
    1. aaa
    1. bbb
    4. ccc
1. bar
1. baz

After:

1.  foo
    1.  aaa
    2.  bbb
    3.  ccc
2.  bar
3.  baz

Tables

Normalizes table formatting.

Example

Before:

**A**|**B**|**C**
|---:|:---|---|
a |b |c
x |y |z

After:

| **A** | **B** | **C** |
| ----: | :---- | ----- |
|     a | b     | c     |
|     x | y     | z     |

This plugin uses the following amazing libraries

• remark
• remark-gfm
• remark-images
• remark-frontmatter

How to compile the plugin

First, install the dependencies with

npm i

Then, you can compile the plugin with:

npm run build

This will create a main.js file in the project root. That is the entry point of your plugin.

Manual installation

Download zip archive from GitHub releases page. Extract the archive into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins.

Alternatively, using bash:

OBSIDIAN_VAULT_DIR=/path/to/your/obsidian/vault
mkdir -p $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_DIR/.obsidian/plugins
unzip ~/Downloads/obsidian-prettify-0.1.zip -d $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_DIR/.obsidian/plugins

Version History

v.0.0.7

• New Refactor tags functionality (ctrl+shift+o)
• Can add emoticons as tags

v.0.0.6

Fixed frontmatter bug

v.0.0.5

Added indent for lists Sets settings as recommended

v.0.0.4

Fixed a bug that escaped \ Added some feedback to the user

v0.0.3

Enabled frontmatter and settings!

Included: remark-frontmatter

v0.0.2

Added tests!

Included: remark-gfm and remark-images

v0.0.1

Initial Release, just playing around for the first time with Obsidian and the plugins. No settings, Just the minimum possible

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Pull requests are both welcome and appreciated. :)

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