🎯 Focus Mode Banner — Obsidian Plugin

⚡ Vibe coded solution by Adriano Fontanari

A lightweight Obsidian plugin that helps you stay anchored to your current note. When Focus Mode is active, a bold warning banner appears every time you navigate away to a different note — a visual interruption to make you think twice before losing context.

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Why

You open a note with a clear intention. Then one link leads to another, and five minutes later you've forgotten what you were doing. Focus Mode Banner makes that drift visible and deliberate.

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How it works

1. Open the note you want to focus on
2. Toggle Focus Mode via the ribbon icon or command palette
3. Every time you open a different note, a high-visibility banner appears at the top of the editor
4. The banner auto-dismisses after 5 seconds (configurable), or close it manually with ✕
5. Toggle off when you're done

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Installation (manual)

1. Go to your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ folder (create it if it doesn't exist)
2. Create a folder called focus-mode-banner
3. Copy these 3 files inside:
   • main.js
   • manifest.json
   • styles.css
4. Restart Obsidian
5. Go to Settings → Community Plugins and enable Focus Mode Banner

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Usage

Method	Action
Ribbon icon (left sidebar)	Click the 🎯 icon to toggle
Command palette	Ctrl/Cmd + P → "Toggle Focus Mode"

When active, the ribbon icon turns red as a persistent visual indicator.

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Settings

Navigate to Settings → Focus Mode Banner to configure:

Setting	Description
Banner message	Customize the text shown in the warning banner
Auto-dismiss (seconds)	How long before the banner disappears automatically. Set to 0 to disable auto-dismiss.

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community-plugins.json entry

{
  "id": "focus-mode-banner",
  "name": "Focus Mode Banner",
  "author": "Adriano Fontanari",
  "description": "Activates a Focus Mode: a bold banner appears every time you open a note different from the one where you started your focus session.",
  "repo": "adrianofontanari/obsidian-focus-mode-banner"
}

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Author

Made by Adriano Fontanari using Claude Sonnet 4.6 by Antrophic

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License

MIT