Free Obsidian plugin
Shared Blocks
Reuse one block of text in many notes. Edit the block in its source note and every reference re-renders live. Everything stays in your vault, with no network access.
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What it does
Write a block of text once, in one note, and reuse it anywhere in your vault. When you edit the original, every place that references it re-renders while you look at it.
Everything happens locally. The plugin reads and renders notes from your vault and nothing else: no account, no server, no telemetry, no network access of any kind.
_Left: the note that defines the block. Right: a note that uses it twice, in Reading view. Editing the definition updates both copies as you type._
Highlights
- In Live Preview only a reference on a line of its own is rendered. One in the middle of a sentence renders in Reading view and stays as highlighted text while you edit.
- The markers use Obsidian's highlight syntax, so a block definition shows as a highlighted line in its source note.
- Blocks are matched by note path and block name. Renaming or moving a note rewrites every
==ref:…==that pointed at it, the way Obsidian updates ordinary links; renaming a block means updating the references yourself.
Details
- Version
- 0.6.0
- Needs Obsidian
- 1.3.5 or newer
- Platforms
- Desktop and mobile
- Author
- Siulved54
- Price
- Free and open source