Contextual Guides

Contextual Guides

Contextual Guides shows a note in a right sidebar based on tags in your active note. Useful for style guides, contextual guidelines, or metadata requirements.

What It Does

• Adds a right-sidebar view called Contextual guide.
• Lets you define one or more guide rules in plugin settings.
• Matches rules when the active note contains all required tags.
• Renders the selected guide note in the sidebar.

Usage

1. Open plugin settings.
2. Select Add guide.
3. Configure Rule name, Guide panel title, Required tags, and Guide note path.
4. Open a note that contains all required tags.
5. Open the sidebar with the ribbon icon or command Open contextual guide sidebar.

Rule Matching Notes

• Tags are normalized (case-insensitive, with leading # removed).
• A rule only matches when all required tags are present.
• If no rule matches, the sidebar shows an empty-state message.
• If a rule has no valid guide note path, the sidebar shows a configuration warning.

Privacy And Security

• The plugin operates on local vault metadata and files.
• No external network requests are required for core functionality.