Obsidian and Writing

Hide Linked Mentions in Obsidian

Tidy Up Your Dashboard

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Introduction

I have been setting up a dashboard to provide a landing page for my knowledge management system. In this brief post, I will describe how to use CSS snippets to backlinks on a single page.

Backlinks

The automatic generation of backlinks in Obsidian is an extremely useful feature as the links section is automatically populated. In my vault I generally link every note to the Home note (or Dashboard), these links are included in note templates. As every note is linked to Home, the list of backlinks is long and doesn’t add any value as every note is listed.

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In the Obsidian settings backlinks can only be turned on or off globally, not on a per-page basis.

CSS snippets

CSS snippets are a mechanism to create small CSS files (typically only containing a single rule) to augment an Obsidian theme. For more details, see Working With CSS in Obsidian

Solution

CSS Snippet