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Limelight

smikulasmikula6k downloads

Spotlight your active pane.

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This is a plugin for Obsidian that spotlights your active pane to make it more obvious.

Demo

Demo

Installation

This plugin is brand new and hasn't been accepted as a community plugin yet. If you want to try it out, you can install it manually with the below steps (based on this guide). Once it is a community plugin this section will be updated with the normal installation steps.

  1. Find the latest release on this page.
  2. Download obsidian-limelight.zip from that release.
  3. In your vault, extract that zip file into .obsidian/plugins/. (You may need to create the plugins directory if this is your first plugin.)
  4. In Obsidian, go to Settings > Community plugins and enable "Limelight". (You may need to disable safe mode first.)

Contributing

If you run into problems, feel free to open an issue in this repository. In particular, if the plugin doesn't play well with some other plugin or theme, please let me know! Issues or pull requests are also welcome if you have ideas for improvements.

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About
Highlight the active pane and dim other panes to draw attention to your current note. Reduce visual clutter while keeping surrounding content readable.
AppearanceInterface
Details
Current version
1.1.0
Last updated
5 years ago
Created
5 years ago
Updates
2 releases
Downloads
6k
Compatible with
Obsidian 0.9.12+
Platforms
Desktop, Mobile
License
MIT
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Author
smikulasmikula
github.com/smikula/obsidian-limelight
GitHubsmikula
  1. Community
  2. Plugins
  3. Appearance
  4. Limelight

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