I finally got the Marked 3 Obsidian plugin into the official community directory. It can now be installed from within Obsidian with no manual-install rigamarole.
This plugin allows you to open your current note, or the entire vault, in Marked 3. Perfect for previewing on the fly, or in the case of viewing the vault, an auto-updating preview that moves with you as you edit new notes.
When I originally submitted Open in Marked, the old workflow meant opening a pull request against the Obsidian releases repo and waiting for a human review. The plugin itself was fine, with a couple of accommodations during the review process. The PR wasn’t rejected. It just sat there until it was automatically closed. Queue pressure, small team, same story a lot of plugin authors ran into.
So for a while the only install path was manual: grab main.js and manifest.json from a GitHub release and drop them into .obsidian/plugins/.
In May, Obsidian shipped the new Community site with automated reviews. You submit from the developer dashboard, the checks run, and if you pass you’re listed. No more waiting on a PR that might never move.
I cleaned the plugin up for the new rules (plugin id, description format, desktop-only Node usage, disclosures in the README), cut a fresh release, and resubmitted.
The plugin is on the directory now.
In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins → Browse, search for Open in Marked, and install it. macOS only, and you’ll need Marked 3 installed.
If you already had a manual install under the old folder name, remove that copy and switch to the community version so you’re on the new plugin id (open-in-marked).
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