Formiqo

Make Markdown beautiful.

Formiqo is an Obsidian plugin for people who copy Markdown from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub, Stack Overflow and documentation sites. It fixes broken Markdown as you paste it, tidies notes on demand, and makes the Reading View cleaner.

📖 New to Formiqo? Read the user guide before you start. It takes about five minutes.

The problem it solves

You copy a table from a chat assistant, paste it into Obsidian, and get this:

\| | Dev | Staging |
\| --- | --- | --- |
\| Directory | `/var/www/dev` | `/var/www/staging` |

With Formiqo, the same paste gives you a working table:

| | Dev | Staging |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Directory | `/var/www/dev` | `/var/www/staging` |

Code examples, math and everything else that was already fine stay exactly as they were.

Features

🩹 Paste repair

• Turns escaped \| table pipes into real tables, but only when the lines really are a table.
• Adds missing or mismatched table separator rows and fills in missing cells.
• Converts • bullets and ☐/☑ checkboxes copied from web pages into Markdown lists and tasks.
• Fixes ##Heading, [text] (url) links, non-breaking spaces that break lists, and code blocks with no closing fence.
• Stays out of the way when your paste is already fine, is source code, or lands inside a code block.
• One Undo removes the whole paste.

🧹 Formatting commands

• Format selected Markdown and Format current document tidy bullets, list numbering, heading spacing, tables, quotes, rules and whitespace.
• Fix Markdown tables repairs tables and nothing else.
• Only the lines that change are touched, so your cursor stays put. Each command is one Undo step.

🎨 Reading View

• Clean tables (wide ones scroll sideways), framed code blocks with language labels, refined inline code, clear heading hierarchy, even list spacing, styled blockquotes, and images scaled down to fit.
• Uses your theme's colours and accent colour, in light and dark mode. Every visual setting can be changed with a CSS snippet.
• Optional Studio style: an editor-like look with system fonts, crisp headings, coloured syntax and striped tables, for the Reading View and for writing in Live Preview and Source mode. Switch it with Toggle Studio style. Details

🛡️ Safe by design

• Never rewrites code, math, frontmatter, callout syntax, HTML, %% comments %% or [[wikilinks]].
• Checks every result before applying it. If any word or number would change, nothing is changed.
• Runs entirely on your device: no network, no AI services, no tracking.

Installation

Formiqo isn't in the community plugin browser yet. To install it manually:

1. Download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release, or build from source.
2. Put them in YourVault/.obsidian/plugins/formiqo/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable Formiqo under Settings → Community plugins.

Full instructions: Getting started. Requires Obsidian 1.1.0 or newer.

Quick start

Everything can be switched on or off in Settings → Formiqo.

Documentation

Known limitations

• #Heading with a single # is not fixed, because #word is an Obsidian tag. ##Heading and deeper are fixed.
• Pastes into the middle of a line, and pastes with several cursors, are left to Obsidian.
• Formiqo works on the clipboard's plain text. It doesn't change the output of Obsidian's own HTML-to-Markdown conversion; use Fix Markdown tables afterwards if needed.
• Table columns aren't padded to equal widths.
• The Reading View styling applies to rendered notes, not to Live Preview.

More in the FAQ.

Contributing

Bug reports and ideas are welcome. Please use the issue templates. To work on the code, see CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, architecture, tests and release steps. Changes are listed in the CHANGELOG.

License

MIT © 2026 cachewraith

Parts of the Studio style palette are adapted from MIT-licensed work; see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.