A modern minimap outline for Obsidian. Displays your note's headings as small markers overlaid on the edge of the note, hover to reveal heading names, click to jump.

Features

• Marker strip overlaid directly on the note, no sidebar panel needed.
• Different marker shapes.
• Hover the strip to reveal all heading labels.
• Active heading highlighted as you scroll, works in both editing and reading mode.
• Click any marker or label to jump to that heading.
• Labels always visible mode: skip the hover, show labels at all times.
• Label hierarchy: show heading depth via indent, font size, or both.
• Tree lines: vertical lines connecting each heading to its children.
• Fully themeable: independent marker/label colors, highlight color, marker shape & size, label font.
• Adapts to dense notes: spacing compresses and the active heading stays in view.

Theme headings option uses the heading colors defined by your active Obsidian theme (e.g. --h1-color … --h6-color), falling back to a built-in palette when the theme doesn't define them.

Usage

Open any note — the outline strip appears automatically on the edge of the note. Hover the strip to reveal heading labels with a slide animation, then click any label to jump to that heading.

Use the ribbon icon or the command Modern Outline: Toggle to show or hide the strip.

All visual options are under Settings → Community plugins → Modern Outline:

• Layout — left/right side, vertical alignment, and animations on/off
• Markers — style (Dash, Pill, Circle, Diamond, Literal, Hash), size, and color theme
• Labels — color, font, hierarchy style, and always-visible mode
• Headings — minimum and maximum heading level to display

Installation

From the community plugin list

1. Open Settings → Community plugins → Browse
2. Search for Modern Outline and install it
3. Enable it in Settings → Community plugins

Manual

1. Download main.js, styles.css, manifest.json from the latest release
2. Copy them into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/modern-outline/
3. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

Motivation

• Wanted to show modern and beautiful outline in my notes.
• Dind't want to have them in a side panel.