Name: Outliner – Obsidian Plugin · Obsidian Stats
Rating: 83 (1473 reviews)
Author: Viacheslav Slinko

by Viacheslav Slinko

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Description

Category: Note Enhancements

#outline #workflowy #roamresearch

The Outliner plugin is a powerful tool for Obsidian users who want to create deeply structured lists and move items around with ease. With its intuitive interface, you can enhance the style of your lists, move them back and forth without breaking the structure, and even stick the cursor to the content while typing. The plugin also offers advanced features like vertical indentation lines, drag-and-drop functionality, and enhanced hotkeys for better navigation and manipulation of your lists. Whether you're a student, researcher, or simply someone who likes to organize their notes in a specific way, the Outliner plugin is definitely worth checking out.

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Latest Version

4.12.0

6 days ago

Changelog

What's new

Improve progressive Ctrl/Cmd+A selection: expand through item content, subtrees, parent items, and the full list before falling back to native document selection, without shrinking an existing selection (#578).
Add opt-in automatic full-item selection expansion, independent of cursor sticking. This preference is disabled by default (#581).
Add Outdent empty items with Enter. Turn it off to preserve empty bullets and checkboxes and continue the list instead of outdenting or exiting it. The existing behavior remains enabled by default; Vim o/O is unaffected (#583).

Requirements

Minimum Obsidian version: 1.15.0 (unchanged).

Release assets are built and uploaded by the repository's GitHub Actions workflow using the production entry point, without the integration-test bridge.

These release notes were written by an AI coding agent on behalf of @vslinko.

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Obsidian Outliner

Work with your lists like in Workflowy or RoamResearch

⁉️ Discuss ideas or ask a question ⚙️ Follow the development process 🐛 Report issues

Compatible with Obsidian Zoom plugin.

Demo

How to install

From within Obsidian

You can activate this plugin within Obsidian by doing the following:

Open Settings > Third-party plugin
Make sure Safe mode is off
Click Browse community plugins
Search for "Outliner"
Click Install
Once installed, close the community plugins window and activate the newly installed plugin

Manual installation

Download main.js, manifest.json, styles.css from the latest release and put them into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-outliner folder.

How to use

Try to create a deeply structured list and move items by pressing the hotkeys described below.

Features

Improve the style of your lists

If you liked the styles from the demo above, you can enable them in the plugin settings tab.

Disclaimer: Styles are only compatible with built-in Obsidian theme.

Setting	Default value
Improve the style of your lists	`true`

Move lists back and forth

Move lists with children wherever you want without breaking the structure.

Command	Default hotkey (Windows/Linux)	Default hotkey (MacOS)
Move list and sublists up	CtrlShift↑	CommandShift↑
Move list and sublists down	CtrlShift↓	CommandShift↓
Indent the list and sublists	Tab	Tab
Outdent the list and sublists	ShiftTab	ShiftTab

Setting	Default value
Enhance the Tab key	`true`

Draw vertical indentation lines

Disclaimer: vertical indentation lines are only compatible with built-in Obsidian theme.

Demo of vertical indentation lines

Setting	Default value
Draw vertical indentation lines	`false`
Vertical indentation line click action	`Toggle Folding`

Stick the cursor to the content

Don't let the cursor move to the bullet position. Affects cursor movement, text deletion, text selection.

Setting	Default value
Stick the cursor to the content	`true`

Enhance the Enter key

Make the Enter key behave the same as other outliners:

Enter outdents list item if it's empty (enabled by default). Disable Outdent empty items with Enter in settings to keep empty bullets and checkboxes and continue the list instead. In that mode, repeated Enter does not exit the list. This option only applies when Enhance the Enter key is enabled and does not change Vim o/O.
Enter creates new line on children level if there are any children.
Shift-Enter creates a new note line.

More info

Setting	Default value
Enhance the Enter key	`true`

Fold and unfold your lists

Command	Default hotkey (Windows/Linux)	Default hotkey (MacOS)	Mobile Quick Action
Fold the list	Ctrl↑	Command↑
Unfold the list	Ctrl↓	Command↓

Enhance the CtrlA or CmdA behavior

Press the hotkey once to select the current list item. Press the hotkey twice to select the entire list.

Setting	Default value
Enhance the Ctrl+A or Cmd+A behavior	`true`

Drag-and-Drop

Demo of Drag-and-Drop

Setting	Default value
Drag-and-Drop	`true`

Plugins that render their own widget in place of the list bullet can make it a drag handle by adding the data-outliner-drag-handle attribute to the widget's element.