Cursor History

Cursor History

An Obsidian plugin that tracks cursor position history across files and lets you navigate back and forward, like VS Code's workbench.action.navigateBack / workbench.action.navigateForward.

Features

• Tracks cursor positions across files with a 10-line threshold (small movements update the current entry, large jumps create new ones)
• Navigate back and forward through your cursor history
• Browser-style stack: going back then moving somewhere new clears the forward history
• Session-based, max 50 entries

Installation

From Obsidian Community Plugins

1. Open Settings > Community plugins
2. Search for Cursor History
3. Click Install, then Enable

Manual Installation

1. Download main.js and manifest.json from the latest release
2. Create a folder cursor-history inside your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory
3. Place the downloaded files inside that folder
4. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings > Community plugins

Configuration

Default keybindings are set up automatically on first install:

To change them, open Settings > Hotkeys and search for "Cursor History".

How It Works

The plugin uses VS Code's position-based heuristic (not timer-based polling):

• Same line: updates the current history entry (no new stop)
• Within 10 lines: updates the current entry
• 10+ lines apart: creates a new history entry
• Different file: always creates a new entry
• Going back then navigating: clears forward history (browser-style)

License

MIT