An Obsidian plugin that places visual markers in the editor gutter when a collapsed heading or block contains an emoji you care about — so you can see what needs attention without expanding every section.
Think of it like breakpoints in a code editor, but for your notes.
Write emojis inside headings or bullet blocks as attention signals. When you collapse that section, a small copy of the triggering emoji appears in the gutter at the fold point. Expand the section and the marker disappears.
## ⚠️ Follow up with Alex ← collapsed → shows ⚠️ in gutter
## Meeting notes ← collapsed, no watched emoji → no marker
## 🔴 Blocked: waiting on design ← collapsed → shows 🔴 in gutter
The marker reflects whichever watched emoji appears first inside the folded content — it doesn't have to be in the heading itself.
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- Obsidian v1.4.0 or later
- Live Preview mode enabled
- Desktop only (no mobile support yet)
This plugin is not yet in the Obsidian community plugin registry. To install manually:
- Download
main.js,manifest.json, andstyles.cssfrom the latest release - Copy them into
<your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/margin-markers/ - Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community Plugins
git clone https://github.com/cyber-rye/obsidian-margin-markers
cd obsidian-margin-markers
npm install
npm run buildThen copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into your vault's plugin folder.
- Configurable emoji set via settings
- Reading mode support
- Mobile support
If this is useful to you: PayPal
MIT