obsidian: type * for a bullet point, not ** bold
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Problem statement: in Obsidian, out-of-the-box,
typing * at the start of a new line emits *|* (an empty bold pair, cursor in
the middle) instead of starting a bullet point.
The culprit is Settings β Editor β Auto pair Markdown syntax. With it on,
every * auto-inserts its closing *, so a * followed by a space never gets
the chance to become a list marker. In fact, we get a bullet point followed by
a plain *, which we then have to delete.
To turn this setting off: set Settings β Editor β Auto pair Markdown syntax to off.
Now: * followed by a space at the start of a line converts it to a
bullet1, exactly like - does.
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Surely inserting bullet points in Obsidian is a muscle memory artifact from migrating from LogSeq. ↩︎