Option to have no heading or use a "body text" for heading

[sotakal]

I've had my output format set to
- Edited [[link]]
and I've liked this minimalist format. The new version of the plugin forces me to use a heading, and this is cumbersome. I rarely use headings in my notes because I find them huge and don't want to tinker with themes, CSS or styling.

If headings really are mandatory, I'd prefer to only a heading formatted as bold body text that says Modified today:, without being forced to use an actual h1/h2/etc. heading. Unfortunately when I tried to specify my heading as
**Modified today:**
the plugin ignored my setting.

[franciskafieh]

The reason I force the user to use headings is because they are easily cached by obsidian. I may add the option to choose something else once i figure out how caching "blocks" (as obsidian calls them) works. There are a few more features I have to finish before releasing 2.1, so I'll have to put this on the backburner.

As a temporary workaround, you can try copying and pasting an invisible character (https://www.editpad.org/tool/invisible-character) into the settings. Make a small heading (h3, h4, whatever level you want) with just the invisible character as the name. This should appear invisible in reading/live preview mode. Give it a try and let me know :)

[sotakal]

Okay, understand the limitations but this still feels cumbersome.

Maybe one more piece of feedback: I expected that if I change the "Heading" setting, when there is no appropriate section in the daily note, the "default" value will be created using my configuration. But I was wrong, and every time the plugin does not detect the specified Heading, it re-creates the default "(h1) Modified Today" and reverts my configuration back to the default value.

[franciskafieh]

That's unintentional. I'll work on getting this fixed, thank you. gonna open a new issue for that.

[franciskafieh]

Just wanted to mention that (because this feature requires a lot of change to implement) anyone else who would like it should heart the original post. I just want to see how urgent and necessary of a feature this would be.

Currently back to working on the 2.1 rewrite, and the easiest solution for now is to have a "primary" / h1 header that can have content replaced under it.

N.B. an empty header (a space character) should still work, as it would simply appear as an empty line in the file (under live preview mode)

[franciskafieh]

Although making the primary heading optional would be hard, making the "modified" h3 optional would be easy ^^

Ideally, a primary heading wouldn't be necessary, but I still need to look into how to use cache to pinpoint this "block", and how to get it to work with #71

[franciskafieh]

Some functionality was added in release 2.1.2. Now the plugin does not create the "modified" heading unless the separate created or deleted options are toggled on. Now there is no heading redundancy in this manner

[jfgrtsn]

Now the plugin does not create the "modified" heading unless the separate created or deleted options are toggled on. Now there is no heading redundancy in this manner

This worked great for me—thanks!

[franciskafieh]

Feel free to look at #90