Obsidian Always Outliner

Private companion plugin for Obsidian Outliner that enforces outliner mode: every line is a bullet. Requires the Outliner plugin installed and enabled; this plugin layers enforcement on top of it.

• Empty notes start with a bullet; blank and pasted plain-text lines become bullets.
• Indentation jumps are clamped to one child level.
• Frontmatter, fenced code blocks and tables are left alone.
• Enter on plain text splits it into two bullets; Enter on an empty top-level bullet keeps the bullet instead of exiting the list.
• Backspace on an empty bullet deletes the line and joins the previous line; the first bullet of a note is never removed.
• Tables are left alone, with or without outer pipes. A table row swallowed into a bullet (e.g. via Insert table on an empty bullet) is unwrapped so the table renders again.

Install

Build first — dist/ is gitignored, so a fresh clone has no bundle (takes <1s on your machine):

npm run build

Copy manifest.json, dist/main.js, styles.css into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/always-outliner/, then enable Always Outliner in Settings → Community plugins. Reload Obsidian after updating the files.

Develop

npm run build   # bundle to dist/main.js
npm run dev     # watch mode
npm test        # unit tests
npm run lint    # prettier + eslint