ramarivera
commented
6 months ago For reference, this is the closest I came to it with my current templater template
<%*
const noteName = await tp.system.prompt("Note name?");
_%>
---
title: <% noteName %>
excalidraw-open-md: true
excalidraw-plugin: parsed
tags:
- excalidraw
---
# <% noteName %>
# Excalidraw
> [!note]+ Excalidraw section of the note
> Do not write anything past this point, as it is managed by Excalidraw
```` <-- this line prevents obsidian from processing the headers as headers, and since it doesn't insert anything before each line, then excalidraw is happy and ignores it
# Text Elements
%%
# Drawing
```json
{
"type": "excalidraw",
"version": 2,
"source": "https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/releases/tag/2.1.4",
"elements": [],
"appState": {
"theme": "dark",
"viewBackgroundColor": "#fffce8",
"currentItemStrokeColor": "#1e1e1e",
"currentItemBackgroundColor": "transparent",
"currentItemFillStyle": "solid",
"currentItemStrokeWidth": 2,
"currentItemStrokeStyle": "solid",
"currentItemRoughness": 1,
"currentItemOpacity": 100,
"currentItemFontFamily": 1,
"currentItemFontSize": 20,
"currentItemTextAlign": "left",
"currentItemStartArrowhead": null,
"currentItemEndArrowhead": "arrow",
"scrollX": 604.671875,
"scrollY": 680.5390625,
"zoom": {
"value": 1
},
"currentItemRoundness": "round",
"gridSize": null,
"gridColor": {
"Bold": "#FFEE7DFF",
"Regular": "#FFF7C4FF"
},
"currentStrokeOptions": null,
"previousGridSize": null,
"frameRendering": {
"enabled": true,
"clip": true,
"name": true,
"outline": true
}
},
"files": {}
}
```
%%
```` <-- this line will get removed by excalidraw every time I go into visual mode so to speak
zsviczian
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I saw Nicole's last video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmgqMZi6QL8&ab_channel=NicolevanderHoeven) and it made me want to create some visual note template. The problem I found with this approach is that I always end up with at least 2 heading 1 in my notes: Text Elements and Drawings. Ideally, I would love to be able to add a
# Excalidrawsection, and put those two elements as headings 2 inside of it, but this breaks excalidraw. I also tried putting all of excalidraw generated md content inside a code block with 4 backticks or tildes, but while it works for the most part, excalidraw always removes the last line (```` or \~\~\~\~) so it feels fragile. I also tried putting all of excalidraw generated markdown inside a callout (so, each line starts with>), while this works very nicely in the textual note, it expectedly breaks excalidraw drawing 😅Describe the solution you'd like I would be happy with something as simple as being able to set, via setting, the excalidraw heading level used. I would be super happy, with a very advanced setting, that allows me to provide 2 JS functions, one that is executed when excalidraw tries to read my markdown content (so, I could remove my specific textual content, e.g. reduce the heading levels or remove the callout
>), and an inverse one before it saves (so, I could add my specific textual content)Describe alternatives you've considered Described before
I completely understand this is an absolutely niche request, but I would also be happy to implement it and raise a PR if you agree with the very niche request 😅
Thanks for the amazing work that goes into obsidian excalidraw!!