Four patch days in a row! 🍀 This update introduces a feature designed to guard your icon settings against future data corruption. This is important for Iconic, because on very rare occasions the plugin has been known to lose its settings if Obsidian crashes while it's in the middle of saving (#195). That won't be a problem from now on.

Special thanks to @emgee13 and @GBN18 for motivating me to build this feature :]

⤿ Theme: Colored Candy by Erallie

New features

• Automatic backups: Iconic now copies its icon settings to a backup file automatically

  • You can control these backups by adjusting Advanced > Maximum automatic backups
  • If your settings are ever missing or corrupted, the plugin seamlessly restores the latest backup for you:

  

Visual fixes

• Rule editor: Suggestions are now sorted by search relevance
• Rule editor: Text fields no longer suggest the value you've already typed

Full changelog: 1.1.7...1.1.8

Another small patch today, focusing purely on suggestion pop-ups.

Big thanks to @a-cub3d for requesting the bugfix below! 🎉

⤿ Theme: Solarized by harmtemolder

New features

• Rule editor: Iconic now shows autofill suggestions when you're editing a rule ✨
  • Rule names: Suggest names of other rules from the same page.
  • Rule conditions: Suggest names, extensions, and paths of files and folders currently in your vault.

This feature only affects the rule editor for now, not the main "Rulebook" dialog.

Bugfixes

• Properties: Text properties now display suggestions again (#200)

Full changelog: 1.1.6...1.1.7

Hotfix for two bugs that emerged in 1.1.5. Thanks to @hasanyilmaz and @truecalifornian for their bug reports! 🐛

From now on, Iconic will release smaller patches like this more often, so we can quickly fix random issues between bigger updates. I'll redesign the roadmap with a new versioning system over the weekend.

⤿ Theme: Catppuccin by catppuccin

Bugfixes

• Rulebook: Rules with property conditions are working again (#198)
• Properties sidebars: Context menus have been fixed in the "All Properties" and "File Properties" sidebars (#199)

New icon

Iconic now has a plugin icon in the Settings sidebar! This is a hidden feature in Obsidian 1.11. Only a small number of community plugins have enabled these icons so far, like Homepage, Templater, and Vertical Tabs to name a few.

If you don't want to see these icons, you can hide them using this CSS snippet:

.vertical-tab-header-group:last-of-type .vertical-tab-nav-item-icon {
    display: none;
}

Full changelog: 1.1.5...1.1.6

Happy new year, folks! 🎆

This is a maintenance patch to fix a variety of issues, a few of them stemming from recent Obsidian updates. Starting with this patch, Iconic will stick to supporting only the latest version of Obsidian, which is already how most community plugins work. The additional effort of testing older app versions back to 1.6.0 isn't really worthwhile for a plugin this complex.

If you're wondering about the extended delay with this release, it was just the capitalist machine crushing me down along with the rest of us. Sorry I left you all hanging. 🦥

⤿ Theme: Catppuccin by catppuccin

New features

• New emojis: Iconic now supports Emoji 17.0 from September 2025.
• For CSS developers: The plugin now exposes the current theme as a data-theme attribute on the body element, which you can use to create theme-specific styles if you wish.

Bugfixes

• Property icons: No longer break when a property name has uppercase letters.
• Tab icons: No longer behave strangely when popout windows are open.
• Rulebook priority: Icons now refresh instantly when dragging rules up and down, which stopped working in 1.1.4.
• Duplicate rule: No longer duplicates the internal rule ID, which caused the plugin to get confused between duplicated rules. Any existing rules with this problem will be quietly fixed when the plugin saves (by toggling a setting, changing an icon, etc).
• Sidebar toggle buttons: Now correctly display their new icons from Obsidian 1.10.
• Another Quick Switcher: Rule icons now appear in file search results.

Visual fixes

• Settings page: Supports the new "Setting Group" UI style introduced in Obsidian 1.11.
• Rulebook: Slightly redesigned to better match the UI style used by Bases.
• Folder rules: Now show the correct default icon 📂 after creation.
• Rules and conditions: Now contained inside scrollable lists, instead of scrolling the entire dialog.
• Primary theme: No longer stacks multiple "blurs" when opening several dialogs on top of each other, which was causing slow performance in Rulebook dialogs.

Full changelog: 1.1.4...1.1.5

This is an early release of 1.1.4 with some very important hotfixes 🔥🚒

Since the new dialog changes are taking some time, they've been rolled into the next patch, and the plugin roadmap has been bumped up by 1 accordingly. This will be the strategy for hotfix patches going forward.

Lots of people spotlighted new bugs in 1.1.3 like always, including @chrisgrieser, @rowboat-10, @MG240, @hdweiss, @konsumschaf, @btchh, @palashman, @LetsGoMaan, and @Flyingfolder. 💫 Muchas gracias, and please keep reporting any new issues you find!

⤿ Theme: Minimal by kepano

New icon features

• Link suggestions can now show file icons!
  • Make sure Show suggestion icons is enabled
• File-moving dialogs can now show folder icons!
  • Toggle this behavior with Show "Move file" icons
• Commands have been added for some new and existing settings:
  • Toggle title icons
  • Toggle suggestion icons
  • Toggle quick switcher icons
  • Toggle "Move file" icons

Rulebook

• Added Embeds as a source for file conditions
• Added several new menu actions when secondary-clicking a rule:
  • Add rule
  • Duplicate rule
  • Move rule to top
  • Move rule to bottom
  • Remove rule is now colored red on most themes
• Added a highlight effect to rules when you open their context menu
• Added vibration when long-pressing a rule on mobile

Bugfixes

• Several Obsidian dialogs with autofill suggestions are no longer broken. For example:
  • Settings > File recovery > Snapshots
  • Settings > Appearance > Interface font
  • Settings > Appearance > Text font
  • Settings > Appearance > Monospace font
• New notes correctly keyboard-focus their title when Show title icons is enabled
• The editor no longer resets its cursor when the plugin refreshes it. This should resolve:
  • Notes scrolling back to their last cursor position when the editor gains focus
  • Meta Bind: Text fields losing focus the moment their contents change

Visual fixes

• Minimal theme: Titles no longer stick to the edge when editing a note with Show title icons and Readable line length enabled
• Changed the description of Show suggestion icons to mention that it affects links, tags, and properties
• Added several missing French translations
• Added more consistent translations for Spanish toggle commands
• Added more vanilla-consistent translations for Japanese toggle commands
• Sections of the README have been rewritten slightly

Full changelog: 1.1.3...1.1.4

The hardest part of programming isn't writing the actual code, it's finding time to write it. I hope you're all having a more relaxing July than I've had so far. Don't overwork yourselves 🤧

Tag icons have been a very broken feature since they were added in 1.1.0 — so broken that they were actually breaking other parts of Obsidian. Fixing this in one patch was the priority this month, and they're actually pretty slick to use now. If you spend a lot of time in reading mode, you might also notice several features like checkboxes, Bases, and certain community plugins working a lot more smoothly now. Give them a try!

Issues resolved in this patch are the result of feedback from @chrisgrieser, @GideonWolfe, @matgrig, @grodax, @Kuuh4, and @Flyingfolder. As always, bless your cotton socks for being the voice of the silent majority 💚

New features

• Inline titles can now display their own file icon!
  • One more familiar feature off the list :]

⤿ Theme: Solarized by harmtemolder

• Tag icons: Have been rewritten to be significantly more stable
  • Icons now appear in all editing modes (including reading mode)
  • Icons now appear in tag suggestion pop-ups
• New setting: Show title icons
• New setting: Show tag pill icons
• New setting: Show suggestion icons

Bugfixes

• The editor no longer refreshes every time you click on a different pane, or modify a file in reading mode. This should eliminate a variety of issues like:
  • Scroll positions being aggressively reset
  • 1.9 only: Menus of Bases being completely unusable in reading mode
  • Meta Bind: Text and number fields losing focus after every single keystroke

Visual fixes

• 1.9 only: Iconic now recognizes the new sidebar toggle icons
• Icon picker: Now displays "Change icon" as the title instead of "Change emoji" when you deselect both icon modes
• Tab selector dropdown: Now displays rule icons as well as custom icons
• Settings: "Sidebar & tab icons" has been renamed to "Sidebars & tabs"
• Settings: "Bigger icons" and "Clickable icons" have been moved out of the "Sidebars & tabs" section
• Kanban: Tab icons are now displayed per-file, instead of one tab icon for all Kanban boards
• Quick Switcher++: Icons are now displayed in the Related Items mode

Full changelog: 1.1.2...1.1.3

The anniversary patch is up! 🌠

Iconic has been on GitHub for a year now, and it's attracted a lot of great contributions while I took a break over the last few months. Today we're adding some new features and flattening almost all the new bugs that were reported since February. I'll be working on this plugin more regularly again, so you can expect new patches roughly every 2-3 weeks now :]

The usual big thankies to everyone who reported bugs, suggested features, and contributed code this time, including @HishamAbraham, @chrisgrieser, @danielwerner86, @KhangHLe, @johannrichard, @tuckerwhite, @kherge, @SamEdwardes, @claudiospizzi, @mxberner, @Mistmage, @bladeacer, @Nsbx, and @jckoester. You're all queens, kings, and scholars 💖

New features

• File & bookmark icons now appear in the Quick Switcher!
  • This includes support for the Quick Switcher++ and Another Quick Switcher plugins
  • You can toggle this feature using the new Show quick switcher icons setting

⤿ Theme: Obsidian Nord by insanum (colors oversaturated)

• New setting: Hide icons from Markdown tabs by toggling Show Markdown tab icons (#80)
• New setting: Hide menu items like Change icon... by toggling Show menu actions (#118)
• New command: Added Toggle Markdown tab icons
• New command: Added Toggle menu actions
• Rulebook: You can now delete rules by secondary-clicking them and pressing Remove rule

Rulebook fixes

• 1.9 only: The rule editor now displays correct dropdown options for the selected property type again (#125)
• Rulings now refresh correctly when you move or rename a file/folder (#82)
• Rulings now refresh correctly when you add or modify a property, thanks to @ShadiestGoat 💖 (#115)
• Rules no longer crash if one of your files contains a list property with blank items (#102)
• When previewing your rule matches, the dialog now scrolls sideways instead of line-wrapping
• Deleting a rule no longer breaks the drag-and-drop order until you re-open the rulebook

Bugfixes

• 1.9 only: Bases can now be customized correctly from their tab
• Images can now be customized correctly from their tab
• Web viewer favicons are now displayed correctly, but won't be customizable until a later patch (#92)
• @johannrichard solved a crash when the plugin encounters filenames with line breaks in them 💖 (#86)

Visual fixes

• 1.9 only: Default property icons now appear correctly again, instead of showing a question mark in a page
• @Nsbx fixed the issue of property icons disappearing when switching between tabs 💖 (#121)
• @mxberner made sure folder icons open & close correctly when you expand & collapse them 💖 (#113)
• @mxberner re-aligned the file explorer icons to look more natural when minimal folders are disabled 💖 (#113)
  • Minimal folder icons are now enabled by default, so new users aren't surprised by the extra spacing
• @bladeacer corrected several wonky translations in Simplified Chinese 💖 (#120)

Full changelog: 1.1.1...1.1.2

Thanks for your patience with this update, it's been a busy month! 😵‍💫 This patch focuses on addressing a number of serious usability bugs with the 1.1.0 release. Hopefully this makes the plugin accessible to a larger slice of users.

Big thanks to everyone who submitted issues over the last few weeks, including @henrik, @Drakemoor, @hello-ppareja, @kherge, @cwsamuelson, @Wildphinn, @Gduhxtd, @whoszatarash, and @AstralEcliptic, all of whose suggestions made it into this patch 💖 Thank you all so much!

We were also blessed with our very first pull requests this year, tagged with emojis below :)

New features

• You can now fully navigate the icon picker by keyboard! (#40)
  • Press Tab to jump between parts of the dialog
  • Press ← → left/right to browse through icons in the search results
  • Press ↑ ↓ up/down to switch between colors, and Del or Backspace to reset the color
  • Press Enter or Space to click a button
• Iconic now has a complete Ukrainian translation through the valiant efforts of @cor-bee! 💙💛 (#69)
  • Most of the other translations in Iconic are currently machine-generated, so if you spot any grammar mistakes in your native language, we will always welcome your corrections :)
• Expanded the README to explain how the Rulebook works in more detail (#45)

Bugfixes

• Jumping to a section from the Outline sidebar no longer causes a janky scroll (#54)
• Newly-created files are now checked by the Rulebook immediately (#59)
• Alleviated performance issues in vaults with large numbers of tags (#61)
• Alleviated performance issues in folders with large numbers of files, all thanks to @Jessiii223! ⚡⚡ (#67)
• The RGB picker now works correctly again (#72)
• The Rulebook dialog can no longer be opened by hotkey while Obsidian is still loading (2170d2a)
• Tag Wrangler plugin: Now merges with the Iconic tag menu (#63)
• Periodic Notes plugin: Now merges with the Iconic ribbon menu (#68)
• Ribbon Divider plugin: Dividers no longer have their own right-click menus (a9e21b8)

Visual fixes

• RTL languages like Arabic now render rules & conditions correctly while dragging them (6642d96)
• Minimal Edge theme: No longer hides Iconic icons when file & folder icons are hidden by Style Settings (#75)

Full changelog: 1.1.0...1.1.1

Enough cooking! It's dinnertime 🍝✨👌 Welcome to the first big feature update for Iconic, which brings some sparkly new automation features, support for new categories of icons, and a laundry list of small improvements and bugfixes.

Huge thanks to @KhangHLe, @lifehaschanged, @hdbordercollie, @mirnovov, @not-a-feature, @cfe84, @EiToBurii, and @henrik for submitting or fleshing out issues resolved in this update 💜 You've helped this plugin become better for everyone!

New features

• The new Rulebook lets you design your own rules to automatically set icons 📚🪶
  • Each rule has a list of conditions you can fully customize, so they can be as powerful or as simple as you want
  • Target your notes by their name, extension, parent folder, headings and links inside them, tags, properties, date created or modified, the current time of day, and even the icons & colors you've already set
  • See the updated README for a quick guide to using the Rulebook
• Support for tag icons 🏷️
  • Customize your tags from the Tags sidebar, from a tags property, or from hashtags directly inside the editor
  • Hashtags in reading mode: Support icons & colors
  • Hashtags in editing mode: Currently support colors only
• Support for window control icons on Windows & Linux 🪟
  • Ever wanted to customize your minimize/maximize/close buttons? Now you can!
  • You can pick separate icons for the Maximize and Restore down buttons, too
• Icon picker enhancements 🎨
  • Now supports Emoji 16.0 on compatible devices
  • You can now mix icons and emojis in your search results 🖼️😊
  • (Mobile) You can finally preview icon names by long-touching them in your search results
• New command and ribbon icon: Open rulebook 📖
• New command: Change icon of the current file 🖼️

Bugfixes

• Menus with Change/Remove actions should no longer bug out into dozens of duplicate actions (#36)
• Homepage plugin: Settings icon no longer loses its customizability after opening a workspace (#30)
• Ribbon Divider plugin: Ribbon dividers now work as expected (#32)
  • Known bug: You can currently assign icons to dividers, but this doesn't work (and isn't supposed to) 🐛

Visual fixes

• More icon names are now properly capitalized, including acronyms like CCTV, CPU, DNA, HDMI, ID, JSON, NFC, PC, QR, RSS, XML and proper nouns like Creative Commons, Gantt, Git, GitHub, GitLab, LinkedIn, Mac, Indian, Japanese, Russian, and Swiss
• Tab menus now position the Change/Remove actions closer to the top
• Tabs without an icon are now displayed correctly when using horizontally split panes (#38)
• Themes that use named CSS colors like goldenrod and rebeccapurple are now supported
• Themes with a custom cursor for --cursor-link are now respected when hovering over clickable icons
• (Mobile) The color picker bubble should now appear perfectly circular on all phones

Full changelog: 1.0.15...1.1.0

New patch for October! 🍂🍬 This one fixes some bugs caused by upcoming changes in Obsidian 1.7, so it should run smoothly on release day. Ribbon icons are also fully supported on phones now, including the quick access button if you've set one.

New features:

• The ribbon menu on phones now supports customized icons! 🌈🐟
  • You can edit them all from Settings > Appearance > Ribbon menu configuration
  • If you prefer a neutral-colored quick access button, use the new Colorless ribbon button setting
• For people who manually install their plugins, Iconic now includes a convenient ZIP file with every new release 🗜️
  • (It's the one labelled iconic-1.0.15.zip)

Bugfixes:

• 1.7 only: Files inside folders are loading their icons correctly again
• 1.7 only: Background tabs are loading their icons correctly again
• Phones only: Icons in Ribbon menu configuration no longer vanish when you change your quick access button

Visual fixes:

• Icon picker: "Grey" now has the correct spelling for en-GB language users
• Icon picker: Some words in icon names are now capitalized more logically, like 3D, TV, and X
• Icon picker: The Icons / Emojis button now changes its tooltip instantly when clicked

Full changelog: 1.0.14...1.0.15