Inline Note

Write inside your links without leaving the page.

When you create a [[wikilink]] in Obsidian, you often want to jot something down for that new topic right now — but clicking through opens a blank note and you lose the context you were writing in. Inline Note lets you expand any link into an editable note body inline, directly beneath the link, without navigating away. The link itself becomes a collapsible title.

Every inline note is a real Markdown file in your vault, so backlinks, graph view, and normal note-opening all behave exactly as usual. You're just editing it from where you are.

How it works

• Toggle button on every link. In Live Preview, each [[link]] gets a small control after it:
  • a ＋ icon (revealed on line hover) when the note doesn't exist yet — click to create it and start writing inline;
  • a chevron (always visible) once the note exists — click to expand or collapse its inline body.
• Keyboard-first. With the cursor right after the closing ]], press Tab to cycle the inline note: create + expand, expand, or collapse. Tab only acts there, so normal indentation is untouched everywhere else.
• Nesting. Inline bodies are full editors, so a [[link]] typed inside an inline note behaves identically — expand it and you get a note within a note, up to five levels deep. Links inside inline bodies render live-preview style (brackets hidden until you edit) and open on click / new tab on Ctrl/Cmd-click.
• Real notes. Nothing here is virtual. Watch your graph fill in live as you write nested notes.

Settings

Nesting style — control how inline bodies are drawn:

1. Vertical accent line: indented under a thin accent bar (default).
2. Card: a subtle rounded background per level.
3. Card + vertical accent line… both.

Installation (manual)

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
2. Copy them into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/inline-note/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable Inline Note under Settings → Community plugins.

Tips

Use together with my Never Leave the Graph View plugin: make inline notes directly in the graph preview pane, watch your connection grow without (truely) leaving the graph view. NICE.

Feedback & Support

Thank you for using Never Leave the Graph View! If you run into a bug or have an idea, please open an issue. Feature requests and bug reports are very welcome.

And if you find inline notes useful, you can:

It's genuinely appreciated.

Happy noting! Yaye

License

MIT © yaye.work