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Obsidian simple mention

A simple plugin that visually highlights mentions and suggests existing ones as you write (except in codeblocks).
The mention prefix can be customized and defaults to @.
Find all occurrences of a mention in the side pane and jump to the corresponding line in the document.
Distinguish your personal mentions from the others by a different color.

Overview obsidian simple mention

Filter your mentions by a phrase

Filter your mentions

Settings

You can:

  • set the trigger phrase (@)
  • set the color of the mentions (green)
  • set the color of your own mentions (deeppink)
  • set the name, how you want to mention yourself (Me)
  • delete the cache (indexeddb)

Shortcuts

In edit mode

ctrl+space or ctrl+click on a mention, opens the right side pane with all occurrences of that mention.

Edit mode shortcuts (ctrl+space or ctrl+click)

In preview mode

When you click on a mention, the right side pane opens with all occurrences of that mention.

Preview Mode shortcuts

Known issues

  • We need to restart Obsidian after
    • adjusting the trigger phrase for the changes to take effect.
    • changing the name of yourself for the changes to take effect.
    • ignoring a directory
    • deleting the cache
  • Style could currently not be overridden by a template (simple fix)

Ideas

  • Group mentions
    • eg. @group-x(@bob,@lisa)
    • usage: find all mentions of @bob and @lisa by searching for @group-x
  • Multi select of mentions in the view
  • Show sub bullet points
  • own color for each "person"