List Item Callouts

Highlight a single list item as a coloured callout by starting it with a character and a space:

- & Milk, and the good bread
- [ ] ! Pay the rent before Friday
1. ? Ask Ana about the tickets
- @ Meet Tom at the station

It works in Live Preview, in Source mode and in Reading view, on desktop and on mobile, in bullet, numbered and task lists.

Coming from List Callouts

This plugin reads the same syntax as List Callouts, which has not had a release since 2024, with the same characters and colours by default, so notes written for it look the same. Settings → Import from List Callouts copies the characters, colours and icons you set up there.

What is different:

• Long notes keep their colours. List Callouts stops drawing callouts when Obsidian has not finished reading a long note (#75, #80). This plugin reads the lines on screen itself, so it never gives up.
• Wrapped lines are coloured with the item they belong to (#48, #18), and in Reading view a callout item's sub-list sits inside its colour.
• Commands to add, change and remove a callout (#47, #57, #71), each with an icon for the mobile toolbar.
• Names for callouts, shown in the picker, so you remember what ~ was for.

The callouts

Character	Default meaning	Colour
&	Highlight	yellow
?	Question	orange
!	Important	red
~	Aside	purple
@	Person or place	cyan
$	Money	green
%	Low priority	grey

The character needs a space after it, so - $5 each stays a plain item. In Settings you can change any character (one to three characters, such as !! or ★), its name and colour, show a Lucide icon in its place, add your own callouts, and restore the defaults. Code blocks, maths and properties are never coloured.

Commands

Command	What it does
Toggle callout on the list item	Adds the first callout to the item under the cursor, or takes its callout away. A line that is not a list item becomes one.
Cycle callout type on the list item	Moves to the next callout in the list, and after the last back to none.
Remove callout from the list item	Takes the callout away.
Make the list item a callout…	Picks a callout by name or character from a list.

Each works on every line of the selection, in one step of the undo history. None has a hotkey by default; assign them in Settings → Hotkeys.

Callout overview

Open the callout overview shows every callout item in one place, in the right sidebar. Choose This note or Whole vault. Items are grouped by callout, with its colour, character or icon and a count, and each shows its text on one line (and, for the whole vault, the note it is in). Click an item to jump to its line. The buttons at the top of the list show or hide one callout at a time.

The list follows the note you are in and updates as you type. Code blocks, maths and properties are left out, as everywhere else. The overview only reads your notes; it never changes them. Obsidian puts it back where you had it when you restart.

Styling

The background strength is a CSS variable, --lic-bg-opacity (0.12 in light themes, 0.18 in dark ones), and the corners follow --lic-radius. Override them in a CSS snippet. Every callout line carries data-lic="&" (the character), for snippets that style one callout differently.

Privacy

Everything happens in the editor. No network access, no telemetry.

Installing

In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins → Browse and search for "List Item Callouts".

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License

MIT