Underpowered Files

Style files and folders in the Obsidian file explorer with bold, italic, and strikethrough effects. Supports cascade inheritance so folder styles can automatically apply to their children.

Features

• Bold, italic, and strikethrough styling for any file or folder in your vault
• Cascade inheritance — enable cascade on a folder to automatically apply its styles to all children
• Override inherited styles — children can override or disable styles inherited from parent folders
• Context menu integration — right-click any file or folder to quickly toggle styles
• Automatic path tracking — styles follow files when renamed or moved

Usage

1. Right-click any file or folder in the file explorer
2. Select a style (Bold, Italic, or Strikethrough) to toggle it
3. For folders, optionally enable cascade to apply the style to all contents

Cascade behavior

When cascade is enabled on a folder:

• All files and subfolders inherit the folder's styles
• Children can override inherited styles by setting their own
• Children can explicitly disable an inherited style

Installation

From Obsidian Community Plugins

1. Open Settings → Community plugins
2. Select Browse and search for "Underpowered Files"
3. Select Install, then Enable

Manual installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Create a folder called underpowered-files in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory
3. Copy the downloaded files into that folder
4. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

Settings

• Clear all styles — Remove all styling rules at once

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build for development (watch mode)
npm run dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Run linter
npm run lint

License

0-BSD