foundObjects / obsidian-plaintext

Adds support for plaintext editing into obsidian. My own purpose is to edit .bib files directly, but surely others can find reasons to use it.

Plaintext for Obsidian

This is an Obisidan plugin that allows you to open any file as plaintext. It has been developed for Obsidian v0.13.14, and tested on Windows.

Honestly, as long as you can run any Obsidian version you can probably run this plugin as well. The only requirements are that we can register extensions (this existed in v0.12.12 for instance), and that the viewRegistry exists, which I'm assuming has been there since the beginning of Obsidian. But, this is all speculation!

Usage

Type your desired file formats into the extensions text field in the settings, then click outside of the text field and watch the magic happen. Since 0.2.0 by default you can no longer accidentally break other plugins with views. Of course, if you desire, they will be breakable.

For any version BEFORE 0.2.0: There are other plugins that allow you to edit specific files. MAKE SURE TO NOT TYPE THEIR EXTENSIONS INTO THE SETTINGS FIELD FOR THIS PLUGIN. I cannot (yet) check for specific plugins that have their own view for a particular extension, and as such this plugin WILL overwrite the view, and break the other extension. If you do this by accident, open the plugin folder (.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-plaintext/), and remove from the data.json file the extensions that you typed by mistake.~~

Installing

Interested in editing files in Obsidian? Great. Grab the latest release from the releases page, and copy main.js and manifest.json to .obsidian/plugins/obsidian-plaintext/. That's it!

You can also install the plugin through Obsidian by searching for plaintext.

Roadmap

For now, nothing is planned. If you're interested in features, please make an issue on Github!

Contributing

Happy to accept PRs on issues!

Pricing

This is free. Keep your money, I don't want it.

Changelog

Version 0.2.0 (current):

• Long overdue: plugin is enabled for mobile!
• Extra protection: by default, extensions that other plugins add (such as .csv) are not allowed anymore!
• We have over 500 downloads!

Version 0.1.0:

• Complete rewrite of registering and deregistering.
• Now actually removes views when deregistering a particular extension.
• Correctly filters out default obsidian extensions: No more accidentally overwriting the default markdown editor.

Version 0.0.2:

• First actual release.
• Code is functional! You can open and edit files as plaintext.

Version 0.0.1:

• Not a release.
• Initial testing code.
• This included the functionality for parsing user-inputted extensions.