Obsidian Aside

An Obsidian plugin to display aside sections based on frontmatter.

Installation

You have to install the plugin manually, I'm afraid...

1. Download the main.js, style.css and manifest.json files from the Release section of this repository.
2. Find the .obsidian/plugins directory of your vault and create a new subdirectory for this plugin. You can name it obsidian-aside or something else, it doesn't matter.
3. Move the files from your download into the new directory.

You should now be able to activate the plugin in your vault.

Usage

Aside sections are created based on the frontmatter entries of a note. You can define the following options to customize your aside section.

Note that the aside section is only displayed in the Reading view, and that either aside-image or aside-prefix have to be defined in the frontmatter.

---
# aside options
aside-image: '[[latissa.jpg]]'
aside-prefix: 'about-'
aside-sort: false
aside-hide: false

# aside entries
about-name: Latissa
about-age: 34
about-alias:
 - The Scarred
 - Tiss (by Strix)
about-home:
 - Brineridge
about-affiliations:
 - The Captains Guild
about-allies:
 - [[Min]] (former besties)
 - [[Cordazar]] (first mate)
---

# your note content

Frontmatter

aside-image: string

Defines an image that is displayed at the top of the aside section. This can be a wiki style link or an image URL.

aside-sort: boolean

Whether to sort the aside properties alphabetically.

aside-prefix: string

Defines what frontmatter entries to include in the aside content. If undefined no items are displayed.

aside-hide: boolean

Prevent the aside section from being rendered. Default is false.

Roadmap

• Improve HTML injection
• Improve link parsing for image
• Improve style
• Add custom styling capabilities
• Add option to display tags