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Quote listing

What is quote listing

It's s way to organize your own quotes with a special syntax. You just write author's name and starting to write your quotes, line by line.

Every empty line or character that doesn't match any pattern (author or quote) will break the quotes' sequence and plugin stops searching quotes, until the next author line appears.

Requirements

If you create a quote listing, you need to know note's and syntax requirements:

  1. A note with quote listing must have the quotes tag (can be changed in settings) (can be placed both in YAML and content)
  2. Author's name must be surrounded by ::: (see example section)
  3. Quote's line must starts with - or 1. (not only 1, any digit 😄), in other words, just use markdown's ordered or unordered lists

Multi-line quotes

If you want to add a quote that has more than 1 line you can use tab to append a line to the previous quote line, so just use the syntax below:

:::Cat:::
- — Do you really like fish?
    — Of course, stupid human!

:::Cat:::
- First line of the quote
    Next line of the quote

In the Obsidian preview/reading mode, it looks much better and fully aligned.

Example in edit mode

example

Code reference

The main roles in making quote listing playing these files: