LevelMate

One key for every level. Lists and headings alike.

Obsidian's Tab key knows lists but not headings, so restructuring a note means juggling two plugins that fight over the same key. LevelMate gives Tab and Shift+Tab one job: move the line you are on up or down a level, whether it is a list item or a heading. Press Tab, done.

What it does

• Tab for lists. Tab indents a list item and Shift+Tab outdents it, from anywhere on the line. Its sub-items come along.
• Tab for headings. Tab turns ## into ### and Shift+Tab goes back. Shift the heading alone, or the heading with its sub-headings.
• Outliner-style editing. Enter that knows lists, a cursor that skips the bullet, step-by-step Ctrl+A, and commands to move and fold items, on the keys you choose.
• Whole sections move. Move up or down on a heading swaps its whole section with the one next to it.
• Drag and drop. Grab the grip beside a list item or heading and drop the whole branch or section somewhere else. The bar shows the level it lands on.
• Tidy lists. Optional list styles and indentation lines that fold an item when you click them.
• One undo step. Every action, however many lines it touches, comes back with a single Ctrl+Z.

How to use

1. Install LevelMate from Settings > Community plugins and enable it.
2. Put the cursor on a list item or a heading and press Tab or Shift+Tab.
3. To shift sub-headings too, open Settings > LevelMate and set Tab on heading shifts to Heading + children.
4. To move and fold items from the keyboard, open Settings > Hotkeys, search for "LevelMate" and give Move up, Move down, Fold and Unfold the keys you like (Outliner users: Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down and Ctrl+Up/Down).

If you use Outliner or Heading Shifter, turn them off. They claim the same keys.

Privacy and safety

• Your notes stay plain Markdown. LevelMate only changes the lines you act on, in the note you are editing.
• No network, no telemetry. It also has no runtime dependencies.
• Safe zones. Code blocks, frontmatter, math blocks and tables are never treated as lists or headings.
• Desktop only. Needs Obsidian 1.13 or later.
• Signed releases. Every release is built by GitHub Actions from this repository and carries a build provenance attestation.

Support

If LevelMate makes your outlines a little easier, you can buy me a coffee. Thank you!

Develop

npm ci, npm test, npm run lint, npm run build (installs into ../test-vault), npm run obsidian:check (live checks in a real Obsidian), npm run showcase (store screenshots), npm run ship.

MIT licensed. Made by Droid.