SC as a Context Menu List

[FelipeRearden]

Hello @Taitava !!!

I'd like to present a user case for an idea that I had :)

Mini Contextual Menu

Fundamentals

A tiny list box (context menu) that is triggered near to the caret position when hit by the SC hotkey.

Each item of the list item_1,item_2, ... is an alias of an SC defined in Settings

This image is from Chetachi's new plug-in Highlightr shows what I'm trying to show :)

If is possible: 🙏

• Keyboard Navigation with arrows inside the context menu ❤️

User Case Example: Action Tags/Placeholders

When reading a long note, I often use some special tags to put signals in to the note as reminders for future readings

• #Status/🟡 to mark this note as unfinished
• #Status/🛑 to remember where I stopped
• [[🔄]] note to mark that some concept is not 100% clear to me

My idea is to have a context menu with this three actions as SC:

SC 1 - [alias] 🟡
printf "#Status/🟡" [output:Current File: Caret Position]

SC 2 - [alias] 🛑
printf "#Status/🛑" [output:Current File: Caret Position]

SC 3 - [alias] 🔄
printf "[[🔄]]" [output:Current File: Caret Position]

The input would be a menu context near the caret position with list of three items with these alias:

🟡
🛑
🔄

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I have one more user case that have the same meaning applied to use html tags modified by css snippets to decorate the text. The principle is the same: mini context menu near the caret postionm that let me select a list of SC to be executed :)

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Have a great day!

[Taitava]

How about using Obsidian's context menu for this? Then it's not needed to build a completely new menu and no need to create a hotkey for opening that new menu, as Obsidian's context menu can be opened just by right clicking text.

[Taitava]

Some of your quotes had multiple times this:

Is this specifically for Mac? it works on Windows at least.

So I wasn't able to fully follow 🙂 .

But generally about this idea, I'll keep it in my head and try to think how to proceed with it. 🌞

Have a nice day, too! 😎

[FelipeRearden]

Sorry, yesterday was a difficult day :) I just updated the post.

Have a great day!

[Taitava]

03 MacOS does not have an dedicated hotkey to invoke the right click menu using the keyboard

@FelipeRearden I just wanted to mention that Obsidian0.14.3 came to the rescue:

• There’s now a command to open context menu for the current cursor location.

🙂

Have a nice day! 😎

[FelipeRearden]

Hello @Taitava !!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you very much for sharing !!!!!

The Obsidian gods finally listen to my 🙏 !!!!

Thank you very much for letting me know I almost lost this one 👀 👀 👀 👀

Let's wait for the public release

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Sorry for my late reply these past weeks ... Everything is okay, I'm just busy helping my mom at home and I finally start using Obsidian Mobile and I'm cracking my head to understand the fundamentals of mobile on iPad and replicate my workflows to mobile (it has been difficult ...)

But I'm always reading all your messages and I am always here if you need me 😃

Have a great day !!!!!!!!!!

[Taitava]

No worries, everyone has times when they can't use much time on voluntary projects. 🙂👍

You have been really helpful and supportive, thank you for it! ❤️