Annotation Manager

Annotation Manager

Annotate text inline in Obsidian, view all annotations in a unified sidebar, style them with custom colors, and query them with Dataview.

View all/some/none of the annotation markup

Documentation (Wiki)

Full documentation is in the GitHub Wiki:

• Home — overview and quick start
• Annotations — syntax, styling, sidebar, commands
• Configuration — all settings, config file setup, and reading-mode color pickers
• DataviewJS Examples — querying annotations

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What it does

• Inline annotations — wrap any text in {={parent/child}your note=} to tag it with an identifier
• Live Preview rendering — delimiters and identifier are hidden; only the annotated text is shown, optionally styled
• Annotations sidebar — collects all annotations vault-wide, grouped by identifier, with one-click navigation
• Custom styling — assign font color, background color, and font size to any identifier or wildcard pattern
• Dataview integration — annotations are exposed as a cc field on each note's page object
• Config file support — define identifier styles in a Markdown table in your vault; open the file in Reading Mode to get inline color pickers for instant color selection

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Quick start

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This approach {={math/hot}maximizes the posterior=} under the prior.

1. Write an annotation using {={identifier}text=} syntax
2. Open the sidebar via the message-square ribbon icon
3. Add styling under Settings → Annotation Manager → Add Identifier

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Notes

• Tested with the built-in and Minimal themes only
• Annotations work in both Live Preview and Source Mode
• Avoid =} inside annotation text — the parser truncates at the first one it finds
• Do not place annotations inside inline code or fenced code blocks

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Written by Claude!