Obsidian Quick Outliner Plugin

This plugin allows to restructure your documents on the fly.

Features

It provides (keyboard) commands for:

• Goto previous/next heading (staying on same level within branch and walk higher when going beyond)
• Goto parent heading
• Demote/promote a heading
• Demote/promote a branch (heading with all sub-headings)
• Move branch up/down (within parent heading)
• Cut/copy/paste branch (adjusting levels)
• Adjust all foldings to focus on relevant structural context
• Toggle folding of heading
• Add heading of same level below this branch

Motivation

Restructuring a document is an integral part of authoring documents. Reorganizing topics and subtopics should not interupt to process of capturing content. This becomes even more important when you are capturing result of discussing or writing minutes during a meeting.

And even for an initial draft of the structure, why should I do this with bullet lists first, which I have to change to headings later?

The core graphical outline view is too separated, too limitted, too slow.

Settings

Currently there are no settings.

Keyboard shortcuts

Currently following keyboard shortcuts are set when the plugin is activated:

Shortcut	Command
Alt Up	Goto previous heading
Alt Down	Goto next heading
Alt Home	Goto parent heading
Shift Alt Up	Move branch up
Shift Alt Down	Move branch down
Alt Left	Promote heading
Alt Right	Demote heading
Shift Alt Left	Promote branch
Shift Alt Right	Demote branch
Alt X	Cut branch
Alt C	Copy branch
Alt V	Paste branch
Alt < 1	Focus foldings
Shift Alt <	Toggle Folding
Alt Enter	Add heading below (as sibling)

Recommendation

Add a CSS snippet, which indents according to outline.

/* Shift left all headings in the gutter in order to make them more distinguishable from text bodies in Editing and Reading modes. */
/* NOTE : `:not(.callout-content)` is used to exclude headings contained in callout boxes */
.HyperMD, 
:not(.callout-content) > h1,
:not(.callout-content) > h2,
:not(.callout-content) > h3,
:not(.callout-content) > h4,
:not(.callout-content) > h5,
:not(.callout-content) > h6 {
  position: relative;
}
h1, .HyperMD-header-1 {
  left: -60px;
}
h2, .HyperMD-header-2 {
  left: -50px;
}
h3, .HyperMD-header-3 {
  left: -40px;
}
h4, .HyperMD-header-4 {
  left: -30px;
}
h5, .HyperMD-header-5 {
  left: -20px;
}
h6, .HyperMD-header-6 {
  left: -10px;
}
div.markdown-preview-view,
div.markdown-source-view div.cm-content { /* This is used to center note considering shifted titles */
  padding-left: 60px !important;
  padding-right: 20px !important;
}

It would be great if somebody could recommend a better one, which indents the paragraphs according to the heading level.

Roadmap

1. Add actions in settings to add/remove default keyboard shortcuts.

Footnotes

1. on German keyboard; It is the key right of LeftShift. ↩