Quick Blocks

Quick Blocks opens a native slash menu when you type /. Use it to insert Markdown blocks, callouts, dates, custom snippets, attachments, and editor commands without leaving the editor.

Features

• Native slash suggestions with icons, previews, favorites, and usage-based ranking
• Configurable trigger keys and trigger behavior
• Built-in Markdown, callout, date, time, property, and transform commands
• Custom snippets with ${cursor}, ${date}, and ${time} placeholders
• Optional command palette commands inside the slash menu
• Local-only operation with no network calls or telemetry

Commands

• Heading 1
• Heading 2
• Heading 3
• Todo
• Bullet list
• Numbered list
• Code block
• Quote
• Callout note
• Callout warning
• Table
• Divider
• Internal link
• External link
• Embed
• Attachment
• Math block
• Today
• Yesterday
• Tomorrow
• Current time
• Tag
• Frontmatter/properties
• Footnote
• Comment
• Callout variants
• Turn line into todo
• Turn line into quote

Settings

Open the plugin settings to:

• Choose one or more trigger keys, separated by commas
• Choose whether triggers work anywhere, at line start, or after whitespace
• Enable or disable individual slash commands
• Pin favorite commands near the top of the menu
• Create custom snippets with aliases, icons, and placeholders
• Add command palette commands to the slash menu
• Add aliases to command palette commands

Custom snippets

Custom snippets are your own slash menu items. Fill the fields like this:

• Name shown in the menu: what you select, for example Meeting note
• Search words, optional: extra words that find it, for example meeting, notes
• Text to insert: what gets added to the note, for example ## ${cursor}
• Icon name: an Obsidian/Lucide icon name, for example sparkles

Useful placeholders:

• ${cursor} puts the cursor there after inserting
• ${date} inserts today's date
• ${time} inserts the current time

Example snippet:

Name: Meeting note
Search words: meeting, notes
Text to insert:
## ${cursor}
Date: ${date}
Time: ${time}

After adding it, type /meeting in a note and select Meeting note.

Development

npm install
npm test
npm run lint
npm run build

The production build writes main.js at the plugin root for Obsidian to load alongside manifest.json and styles.css.