Editing Title Text - from the Title in Note

[santiyounger]

Hey thanks a lot for making this amazing plugin

I make YouTube videos On Obsidian and other PKM tools https://www.youtube.com/c/SantiYounger/videos

There's a system I want to teach (it's something more developed towards outliners like Roam) However I've found a way to adapt it to Obsidian and I'm really close to achieving it.

The only missing peace is the title, and this plugin is so close to allow for this workflow to happen

With that said I'd love to request for this feature, if possible, I'm not sure how complicated it would be, so I'd love to know your opinion if this is achievable.

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Long story short

The system I'm working on is a variation of zettelkasten, I'm using a technique where the contents of a note is in the title. This allows for quick visualization of ideas, and easy reusing them.

In short I'm using long titles (around 20 - 40 words).

The biggest limitation for this system is how unfriendly Obsidian is to long titles. If it get's too long it just fades out and it's hard to edit it easily without having to use the arrows a lot to navigate the text.

What I'd love to achieve, is to edit the text from the big title provided by this plugin

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This would be amazing and I'd be super greatful if it was possible to achieve.

However I'm aware that there might be potential limitations or that this might be more work than expected. I'd love to get your thoughts on this

Thank you

[mgmeyers]

Thanks for the suggestion @santiyounger! In theory this should be doable, but this plugin has to take a pretty hacky approach to embed note titles, so making titles editable in this way might be more complicated than it normally would. Let me look into what's possible here.

[santiyounger]

Thanks for taking a look into it. Makes sense, keep me updated to know if it'd be possible. This would be extremely useful and is really the last piece I need to make this system work. I'd be super grateful if it could be done. Thank you!

[mgmeyers]

@santiyounger So I looked into this a bit. It is possible to do, but unfortunately would require a ton of work because of how hacky these embedded titles are. I'll leave this issue open and try to tackle it when I have more time, but probably won't get to it for a month or two.

[santiyounger]

I totally understand, thanks a lot for your work so far with this plugin, it's great. I'd love it if you can eventually add this feature, but I understand the time it involves to implement things like this.

I can certainly wait, so take your time and thank you again for considering this. I'll keep an eye on this, so feel free to update me if you can

Thanks again!

[santiyounger]

I just found another plugin that kind of achieves this already, however it's too destructive since it changes every #h1 accross the whole vault I wrote an issue there: https://github.com/dvcrn/obsidian-filename-heading-sync/issues/6

Just thought I'd share in case it serves as inspiration, since I think your approach to make these headings non-destructive (to other existing headings) is currently better and could potentially be better than the implementation of that other plugin. Thanks

[gabrielwhite]

I just wanted to voice my support for editing the titles directly inline. I use this plugin along with Minimal Theme Settings "Focus Mode" which hides the filename / editor, and so it would be great to be able to edit the title within the document.

Another solution (at least for my situation), could be to click on the name of the document shown by Embedded Titles to open a dialog box that allows me to rename the document?