Callouts

Set a warning, a tip or an aside apart from the rest of the note in a tinted block with an icon and a title.

There are thirteen types of callout — such as Note, Tip, Warning, Question and Todo — and you can add up to three of your own.

Add a callout

Tap or click ⊕ in the editor bar and choose Callout, then the type.
Or type /, choose Callout, and pick the type from the list. Keep typing to filter the list; it includes your own types. To go straight to one type, type its name, such as /warning or /tip.
Or type > [!tip] at the start of a line, with the type you want in the brackets.

You can also choose Format ▸ Callout.

The callout's first line is its title; what you write under it is its body. Return adds lines to the body; to write below the callout, tap or click under it — under a callout that ends the note, that opens a plain line for you.

To make an existing paragraph into a callout, use Turn Into ▸ Callout in its block menu. The paragraph goes under the new callout's title. See Move and select blocks.

Fold a callout

Click or tap the chevron at the right-hand end of the callout's title line. The body is hidden and the callout closes to one line. Click or tap it again to open it.

You can also choose Format ▸ Fold Callout.

The note remembers which callouts you left closed, and opens them that way on every device.

While a callout is closed, you can change its title. Anything else — Return, Delete, a paste — opens the callout first, so the lines you cannot see are never split or deleted by accident.

Change the colors and icons

In Settings ▸ Callouts you can change the color and the icon of every type, and add up to three types of your own. ⟲ puts a type back the way it was.

A callout's title is always in the color of its own type, on every device.

Callouts next to each other

Two callouts of the same type with an empty line between them stay two callouts. A note never begins with a callout: an empty line is kept above it, so you can always click or tap in above it.

Callouts in Markdown

A callout is written in Markdown as > [!warning] Title, and read back the same way, so a note goes between NotaBene and Obsidian intact. A folded callout is written > [!warning]- Title, which keeps it closed in Obsidian too — and a - that comes from Obsidian closes it here. Obsidian's other names for types, such as tldr, hint and caution, are understood. A type NotaBene does not know keeps its name and looks like a Note.