Obsidian plugins with #live-preview#

The Livecodes Playground plugin integrates a powerful code editor within Obsidian, allowing users to create, manage, and run interactive coding playgrounds. It supports multiple programming languages and frameworks, enabling rapid prototyping and live previews of code. Users can generate new playgrounds, import existing configurations, or utilize starter templates for languages like JavaScript, Python, and HTML. The plugin also offers features such as quick playground creation, integration with CodePen, and live previews of code blocks within Obsidian. Playgrounds are saved as Markdown notes, maintaining compatibility with the Obsidian environment. The plugin provides extensive customization options for setup and configuration, catering to both beginners and advanced developers.

The Edit mode switch plugin adds a convenient button to the file header in Obsidian's edit mode, enabling users to toggle seamlessly between source mode and live-preview mode. It also supports a 'three-mode toggle' feature that allows switching between read mode, source mode, and live-preview mode in a specified order. This functionality replaces the default Obsidian button and offers a streamlined experience for managing editing and viewing preferences. Users should note potential visual 'blinks' when switching modes, particularly with live-preview.

The Mode manager plugin enhances Obsidian's editing experience by providing dedicated commands to switch between reading, live preview, and source modes. Instead of relying on the default toggle behavior, users can directly switch to a specific mode, improving workflow efficiency. The plugin also includes a special property that allows files to open in a predefined mode automatically.

The Better Link Clicker plugin changes how you interact with links in live preview mode. Clicking a link now lets you edit it directly instead of navigating to the linked note. This prevents accidental navigation when you meant to modify the link text or destination. When clicking a link to a non-existent note, you get a confirmation prompt before creating it - useful for avoiding unwanted note creation. Both behaviors are configurable. Modifier clicks still work as expected, so you can open links in new tabs, splits or windows using the standard keyboard shortcuts.

The Adapt to Current View plugin helps visually distinguish between Reading, Live Preview, and Source views by assigning each one a unique accent colour. This subtle yet effective visual cue prevents confusion, like trying to edit while still in Reading mode or wondering why interactive elements behave unexpectedly. It works especially well with themes that prominently highlight accent colours, such as Minimal, Border, and Iridium. The plugin is purely cosmetic but improves your navigation and focus while switching between modes.

The YAML Table plugin lets users convert YAML code blocks into clean, responsive HTML tables directly within notes. By using a custom language identifier (default: `yaml-table`), it enables real-time rendering of YAML content such as key-value pairs, lists, and nested structures. This makes data-heavy notes far easier to read and visually parse. Captions can also be added inline, and the rendered tables support horizontal scrolling for overflow content. The plugin works seamlessly in Reading View and Live Preview, and users can click the rendered table to edit the underlying YAML. It's a handy solution for turning structured data into legible, styled tables without leaving the note environment.

The Dayframe plugin adds a configurable frame around daily notes when they are opened in Reading view. It detects your daily notes in the editor, then places markdown content before and after the note body using a `{{CONTENT}}` marker in a template. The note file stays clean because the extra material is rendered only while viewing, not stored in the daily note itself. Prefix and suffix sections can include normal markdown elements such as links, embeds and transclusions. You can also configure the template of the frame from another file in the vault.

The Better Live Preview Image plugin adds direct image alignment controls and callout image sizing that work inside Live Preview and Reading view. It lets you set left, center or right alignment from the image context menu, command palette or your own hotkeys, then stores that choice in Markdown image markers. It also applies width and height markers to images inside callouts, so rendered callouts respect the same sizing syntax without changing the note content itself. When an image uses the default alignment, the explicit marker is removed and the plugin's CSS handles the display while the plugin stays enabled. It is focused, local first and keeps image formatting visible even when you use the native edit block flow.

The TableTune plugin lets you resize table columns and row heights by dragging borders in Edit and Live Preview mode, then keeps those sizes tied to each table instead of applying one shared layout. It preserves the same widths in Reading view, adds a single horizontal scrollbar when needed and avoids clipped or double scroll behaviour across different vaults and themes. Tables without saved sizes start with content fitted column widths, capped so wider text stays readable. The plugin does not rewrite note source. It stores widths and row heights in `data.json` by note and table, assigns distinct IDs for duplicate headers and migrates legacy single array data from older versions automatically.

The Custom Theme Studio plugin provides an all-in-one toolkit for designing, editing, and managing Obsidian themes visually. It combines a CSS variable manager, live CSS rule editor, and powerful export features-all accessible from a dedicated studio interface. Users can modify colors, fonts, and layout styles using real-time previews and selector-based styling tools. The integrated Ace editor supports syntax highlighting, auto-completion, Prettier formatting, and embedded color pickers for precise control. It also enables users to import fonts, define custom selectors, and export their themes as shareable packages with manifest files.

The Dynamic Text Concealer plugin is a game-changer for Obsidian users who want to declutter their notes and focus on the content. With this plugin, you can dynamically replace text using user-defined regular expressions, effectively hiding ugly metadata from other plugins. For instance, you can conceal curly braces used by Obsidian to Anki, or any other pattern that clutters your notes. The plugin also allows you to capture groups and conceal them in your notes, making it easy to organize and customize your content.

The Negative Heading plugin turns lines that start with `-# ` into compact muted headings, giving notes a lighter way to separate sections without using standard heading levels. It works across Reading View, Live Preview and Source Mode and keeps normal Markdown content such as bold text, italics and links inside the rendered line. A smart toggle command can add or remove the token on one line or across a selection, using majority based detection and preserving list markers when the syntax appears inside list items. The plugin also supports escape characters, ignores code and math blocks and uses theme aware colors with accessible heading semantics in Reading View.