Obsidian Scrapbox Flavored

Scrapbox-flavored Grid View and Outliner for Obsidian

Note: This plugin is still in early alpha and is subject to change at any time!

Features

Grid View

Show files as cards with a thumbnail or a description

Command:

• Open Scrapbox-flavored Grid View (default: Command + Shift + g)

You can explore pages in your vault efficiently.

Grid View provides several features.

• Search files by file path or tags
• Sort files
• Pin starred files (Enable Starred Core plugin to use this)
• Context menu to delete a file or toggle star

Related Pages

Show cards related to the current page at the bottom of the page

[Experimental] Styles

Provide Scrapbox flavored syntax.

This feature is disabled in default. Enable it in the setting.

Style	Screenshot
quote in list
helpfeel in list

[Experimental] Outliner

Provide an effective list operations

This feature is disabled in default. Enable it in the setting.

The hotkeys can not be changed now.

Command (hotkey)
Create a list (Tab or Space) Delete a list (Shift + Tab or Backspace)
Move cursor to the beginning of the line (default: Ctrl + a) Move cursor to the end of the line (default: Ctrl + e)
Move up the current block of the list (default: Option + ↑) Move down the current block of the list (default: Option + ↓)
Indent the selected block of the list (default: Option + →) Outdent the selected block of the list (default: Option + ←)

How to use

This plugin has not been released officially yet.

BRAT

If you use BRAT (Beta Reviewers Auto-update Tester), you can try the plugin to specify tkat0/obsidian-scrapbox-flavored.

See TfTHacker/obsidian42-brat: BRAT - Beta Reviewer's Auto-update Tool for Obsidian. Part of the Obsidian42 family of plugins. for details

Copy manually

• Download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from Releases
• Copy them to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-scrapbox-flavored
• Enable this plugin in the Obsidian configuration.

Build manually

• Download this repository
• Run pnpm install && pnpm run build
• Copy over ./packages/plugin/{main.js, manifest.json, styles.css} to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-scrapbox-flavored
• Enable this plugin in the Obsidian configuration.

Roadmap

These features will be implemented.

• data sync to Scrapbox
  • import Scrapbox pages to Obsidian
  • export Obsidian pages to Scrapbox
• code block in Markdown list like https://scrapbox.io/help/Syntax#58348ae2651ee500008d67df

Related projects

Scrapbox and Markdown parser used in this plugin

• tkat0/scrapbox-converter: Scrapbox to Markdown parser written in Rust

Obsidian Plugins of Scrapbox-like grid view

• yo-goto/obsidian-card-view-mode: Obsidian Card View Mode Plugin
• qawatake/obsidian-card-view-switcher-plugin: An Obsidian plugin to provide a quick switcher with card view

Obsidian Plugins of Scrapbox-like list operation

• vslinko/obsidian-outliner: Work with your lists like in Workflowy or RoamResearch

Acknowledgements

Scrapbox

This project was created based on Scrapbox. Thank you for creating the great product.