FeatherLight
2026 ■ Obsidian Plugin
About
I created a plugin for myself that restricts notes to a certain character limit—140, 280, or a custom amount. I chose these particular limits because I had really enjoyed the succinct nature of tweets; it forced me to think a little harder about what to write. (I tend to ramble.)
Why?
Obsidian provides a character and word count built-in, but what I really needed was a mechanism to prevent me from writing any further once I had reached the character limit.
Approach
This restriction applies only to notes created within designated folders, or to all notes if no folder is selected. Custom limits can be any positive number; 500 is the default. An individual note can override the limit by adding a char-limit property to its frontmatter. Characters include spaces and punctuation.