Obsidian Editor Settings for Beginners

Denise Todd
13 min readSep 18, 2022

Obsidian Beginner’s Series: Setting> Editor Settings | Part 1

Confused about Obsidian Editor Settings. Not sure what to choose? Don’t know what happens if it’s ON or OFF? This article is for you. It’s part one of a multi-part Obsidian settings series.

Obsidian Settings Screenshot | by Author

TABLE of CONTENTS

Editor > GENERAL MENU
Default View for New Tabs
Default Editing Mode
Editor Status
Editor > DISPLAY MENU
Show Inline Title
Readable Line Length
Strick Line Break
Show Frontmatter
Fold Heading and Indent
Show Line Number
Show Indentation Guides
Right-to-left (RTL)
Editor > BEHAVIOR MENU
Spellcheck
Spellcheck Languages
Auto Pair Brackets
Auto Pair Markdown syntax
Smart Indent Lists
Use Tabs
Tab Size
Editor > ADVANCED MENU
Auto Convert HTML
VIM Key Bindings
Use Legacy Editor

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Denise Todd
Denise Todd

Written by Denise Todd

Author/Speaker writing about supporting other writers, critical thinking, knowledge management, story structure, and other things that matter.

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