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Goldilocks Essentials for Obsidian

A collection of optional small UX improvements for Obsidian, including tab renaming/coloring, smart placement of new notes, a print menu option, pressing E to edit, and a plugin shortcut.

Best For

beginnerswritersstudentsnote-takerspower users

Key Use Cases

  • Customizing tab colors and names
  • Controlling where new notes are created
  • Adding a print option to menus
  • Quickly editing notes with a keyboard shortcut
  • Accessing plugin settings via a shortcut

Pros

  • Opt-in features that can be individually enabled or disabled
  • No complex configuration required
  • Covers several common quality-of-life requests

Limitations

  • Very low download count (15) may indicate limited testing or awareness
  • Some features may overlap with existing plugins or Obsidian's built-in options

Tags

ux-enhancementstab-customizationnote-creationshortcutsediting

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