View Modes & Korean Input

3 min readUpdated 2026-10-24

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The thing ObsiKO is proudest of! "Looks beautiful the instant you write it — and Korean input is checked, every build, so it doesn't break."

What is hybrid editing? 🤔

The line your cursor is sitting on honestly shows you the raw Markdown symbols, while any line your cursor has left magically shows only the pretty formatting.
No more split-screen preview panes cutting your view in half — write and view at the same time, on one screen.

Press the View button (👁) at the top right of the tab bar and a menu opens. Pick any of the three modes from there!

Source view (⌘⇧O): shows every single Markdown symbol, without missing a thing. (Plain-text vibes!)
Reading mode (⌘⇧V): hides symbols even on the line your cursor is on, so you can read comfortably like a finished book.
Zen (focus) mode (⌘⇧Z): sidebar, toolbar — all distractions step aside! Dive deep into nothing but your writing. (Done writing? Hit the toggle button at the top-right any time to come back!) Even the beautiful cosmic Graph View can be viewed distraction-free in Zen mode!
💡 Slide, Book, Web Novel, Messenger, and Visual Novel views live in the very same menu. They only slip into view when the document's frontmatter carries the matching incantation (marp: true, view: book, and so on). → 18 Making Presentations · 18-1 E-book & Web Novel Viewer · 18-3 Messenger & Visual Novel Views

No matter how fast you type, even mixing in autocomplete and shortcuts — ObsiKO is built so that a Korean character being composed doesn't get mangled, an initial consonant doesn't split off, and a character doesn't get typed twice. It's not just a promise: every time the app is built, 9 Korean-input scenarios (typing across a line wrap, a final consonant carrying over to the next syllable, picking an autocomplete item, moving from title to body, saving mid-composition and more) are re-checked automatically. (If you ever do spot something, please report it right away!)
That moment where you finish a title, hit Enter excitedly to move to the body, and a half-typed character comes along for the ride wrongly? ObsiKO blocks that too — and it's part of the automatic checks above!
Typing right after you paste no longer splits the first character into loose jamo (iPhone, iPad). And after pasting text that ends in a link, the characters you type next stay outside the link instead of getting sucked into the link's name.
Using a keyboard connected to an iPad or iPhone? We took care of that too — moving from the title to the body (Enter), from the start of the body up to the title (↑), or into the title of a brand-new note no longer cuts off the first character or lets it leak into the wrong field.
This flawless Korean typing experience is, in fact, the single biggest reason ObsiKO exists! 💪

Hit Enter in a list or blockquote and the next line continues automatically, right? Your precious Korean composition is kept safe through all of that too.
Clicking a link ([[ ]]) or a #tag is smart too. Click the very link your cursor is sitting inside and only the cursor moves, carefully, so you don't make a typo — but click any other link, even on the same line, and you fly straight to that document. (And ⌘(Ctrl)+click jumps even from the link you're inside!) Pretty sharp, right? → Wiki Links & Tags