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Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 11, 2022 at 08:19 AM
Of course Obsidian does allow note embedding (like iA Writer), so you can quite easily embed notes in one big “master” note if you want to.
Indeed, you can embed individual blocks of text in a note, if you’re prepared to give the blocks identifiers (very easily done – and you can create your own identifiers if you want, although Obsidian will create random ones for you if you prefer).
At the moment, it doesn’t seem to be possible to edit embedded notes or blocks inline (you have to follow the – elegantly presented – link back to the individual note or block in order to edit them), but I’m sure that’ll arrive somewhere along the line.
You **can** edit embedded data if you use the Dataview plugin, which allows you to collate master notes from all kinds of pieces of text or data in your notes, based on various criteria, including e.g. locations, metadata, strings and tags.
You can also embed files, graphics etc. in a note.
Can you tell I’ve become quite enthusiastic about this program? ;-)
Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 11, 2022 at 01:08 PM
There is a popular plugin, “Hover Editor”, that turns the embedded text preview into an editor pane so that the transcluded text can be edited in the current view.
https://github.com/nothingislost/obsidian-hover-editor
and install from the Community Plugins panel in Obsidian.
MadaboutDana wrote:
>At the moment, it doesn’t seem to be possible to edit embedded notes or
>blocks inline (you have to follow the elegantly presented
>link back to the individual note or block in order to edit
>them), but I’m sure that’ll arrive somewhere along the line.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 11, 2022 at 01:37 PM
Dang – thanks, Paul!
Paul Korm wrote:
There is a popular plugin, “Hover Editor”, that turns the embedded text
>preview into an editor pane so that the transcluded text can be edited
>in the current view.
>
>https://github.com/nothingislost/obsidian-hover-editor
>
>and install from the Community Plugins panel in Obsidian.
>
>MadaboutDana wrote:
>>At the moment, it doesn’t seem to be possible to edit embedded notes or
>>blocks inline (you have to follow the elegantly presented
>>link back to the individual note or block in order to edit
>>them), but I’m sure that’ll arrive somewhere along the line.
>
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 19, 2022 at 11:53 PM
Obsidian is now amazing, and with certain plugins matches almost anything else in the field. But I’ve been finding the lack of block management frustrating. To explain: In e.g. Craft, Ulysses, Dynalist, Workflowy and many other editors, you can drag and drop blocks of text around – in certain apps you can even embed them. And it’s easy; handling blocks of text (sentences, paragraphs, list items etc.) becomes a very convenient way of building rapid lists or editing complex trains of thought. The fact that Obsidian doesn’t allow you to do that was beginning to get me down…
... But of course someone has developed a block manager that enables Obsidian to do exactly the same thing: Drag’n'Drop for Blocks. It adds a very faint dotted oblong alongside each block of text, and by selecting it you can drag and drop the block under or over another block, or by using a modifier key, embed it in another document (in which case the plugin will automatically append a link ID to the block – in Obsidian, this takes the form of a random block of letters/numbers preceded by a ^ symbol, but you can manually assign your own link IDs to blocks as well).
While testing it, I experienced the occasional glitch (easily resolved by disabling and then reenabling the plugin) – now that I’m used to it, it behaves very well. The embedding works particularly well if you use the “Stacked Tabs” function.
I can recommend it to all those who’ve had enough of copying and pasting large chunks of Obsidian text!
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by steveylang
Nov 22, 2022 at 12:51 AM
That looks super promising, thanks!
Just an FYI, I searched and found 2 versions, only one of which is active-
This is the original:
https://github.com/GitMurf/obsidian-drag-and-drop-blocks
An explanation of why development was halted and picked up by someone else:
https://github.com/GitMurf/obsidian-drag-and-drop-blocks/issues/36#issuecomment-1251469845
The new plugin currently under development:
https://github.com/artem-barmin/obsidian-block-drag-n-drop