Obsidian Spotlight

Show random block of note from vault / in a specified project or with a certain combination of tags.

Example

Features

• Render block to show a note or a block of note
• Note is chosen randomly based on all search parameters & updated everytime the note is re-opened
• Filter using a combination of tags e.g. tag1;tag2;tag3
• Filter by path location / note name
• Specify div width/height and alignment

Usage

• To display a note spotlight use render block id spotlight-note
• To display a block spotlight use render block id spotlight-block
• Each line represents a certain argument. Arguments are identified by with the following syntax: argumentName=argumentValue for e.g. to set div width: divWidth=50 which sets the container width to 50% of the note width.
• Each argument must be on a separate line.
• Arguments can be in any order
• Arguments that was not specified are set to default values
• Arguments are: tags, match, divWidth, divHeight and divAlign
• The parameters are the following:
  • tags tag list based on which to choose note pool to display from. Tags must be separated by a ; without the # at the start. e.g. to get a note with tags #test and #now the first line must be test;now or now;test
  • Path of notes to get info from e.g. Project Main/Project 1 for all notes in Project Main/Project 1/
  • Div container width in %
  • Div Height in Pixels
  • Div alignment e.g. left or right

Settings:

Release Notes

v0.1.1

• Code improvements

v0.1.0

• Initial release

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