Better Link Display

Turn a plain web link in your note into a bookmark with the site's real title and icon.

把笔记里的网址一键变成带网站标题和图标的书签。

It's still an ordinary Markdown link — the icon is inlined as text, so the bookmark keeps working with the plugin disabled, in another vault, or in any other Markdown app.

它依然是普通的 Markdown 链接——图标以文本形式内嵌，所以即使停用插件、换个库或换个 Markdown 应用，书签照样正常显示。

Install

Community plugins → Browse → search Better Link Display → Install → Enable.

Requires Obsidian 1.13+, desktop and mobile.

Setup

Titles come from a small online service, Bookmarkify, so you need a free token once:

1. Sign in at bookmarkify.cc and create a token.
2. Paste it into Settings → Better Link Display → Access token.
3. Click Test.

The token is read-only — it can only look up a page's title and icon.

Use

In editing mode, hover a link and pick Format from the little menu. Works with all three forms:

https://example.com
[Example](https://example.com)
<https://example.com>

No mouse (or on mobile)? Put the cursor in the link and run Format link under cursor from the command palette.

The menu on an already-formatted link offers Reformat (look it up again) and Reset (strip the icon, leaving [Title](url) — instant and offline).

Choose Custom name on any link to enter your own title, then Save (or press Enter). This works offline and keeps the existing icon. Reformat replaces the custom title with the site's title again.

When no icon is available, formatting or setting a custom name uses the root domain's first letter on a grey background as the logo.

If a lookup fails, a notice explains why and your note is left untouched.

Settings

Background and Border are purely visual and change nothing in your notes.

Notes

• No menu appears in Reading view, inside code blocks or frontmatter, or on image embeds.
• A bare URL containing brackets — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_(bar) — is skipped, since Markdown can't tell where it ends. Wrap it in <…> or write it as [text](url).
• Because the icon is inlined, formatted lines look long in Source mode (~1,300–4,800 characters per icon). Live Preview and Reading view show only the icon and title.
• Nothing is sent anywhere until you click Format: one lookup request, one icon download (https images only).
• The Format link under cursor command name only changes language after a restart.

License

MIT