# you see in this screenshot of my obsidian set up there is a little bit of info. ## Retrieval Notes - Session id: `a8ff00d1-c1a9-47d1-9b44-3084cb52733f` - Last activity: `2026-02-07T23:42:18.257Z` - Files touched: `1` ## Artifacts **Modified:** - [[.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-hider/data.json]] ## My Notes <!-- Add your notes here. This section is preserved across syncs. --> ## Conversation ### User you see in this screenshot of my obsidian set up there is a little bit of info. written in small red sriting at the bottom of the screen. i thik that is a plugin but i don't know which one. can you hekp me work it out w without guessing>??? ### Assistant Let me zoom in on that bottom area to read the text clearly. ### Assistant No browser available — let me zoom into the screenshot image directly to read that text. ### Assistant Let me check your Obsidian plugins to identify this definitively rather than guess. I'll look at what plugins are installed and which ones display status bar information. ### Assistant Now let me check which plugins are actually enabled and look for ones that add status bar items. Let me also zoom in on the image to read the text precisely. ### Assistant Good — that covers community plugins. But there's also Obsidian's built-in core plugins. Let me check those, and also look more carefully at the screenshot to pin down exactly what text is red. ### Assistant Let me also check for CSS snippets that might style the status bar, and look more carefully at what's actually visible at the bottom of the screen. ### Assistant There it is. The answer is clear from the config: **Your accent color is set to `#ff0000` (pure red)** in `appearance.json`, and you're using the **Minimal theme** in dark mode. The Minimal theme uses your accent color to style the status bar text at the bottom of the screen. That's why the text appears in small red writing. The actual *information* shown there comes from a combination of sources: 1. **Core Word Count plugin** (`word-count: true`) — the "1,527 words · 25,094 characters" 2. **Core Backlinks plugin** (`backlink: true`) — the "4 backlinks" 3. **Longform plugin** (community, enabled) — the project/draft word count figure (this file is part of a Longform project, so Longform adds its own count with a "project" label) So it's not one mystery plugin — it's your **Minimal theme accent color** (`#ff0000`) styling the built-in status bar, which aggregates items from those three sources. If you changed the accent color in Settings → Appearance, that text would change colour accordingly. *Il rosso che vedi non è un plugin nascosto: è il colore d'accento che hai scelto tu, riflesso nella barra di stato dal tema Minimal.* ### User "So it's not one mystery plugin — it's your Minimal theme accent color (#ff0000) styling the built-in status bar, which aggregates items from those three sources. If you changed the accent color in Settings ? Appearance, that text would change colour accordingly." no it is not not you dumb dumb. it is what ever aspect of the obsidian interface or a core /comunity plugin, which is displayoing things in the corner. it is defintelly not about try ing to camaflage it wirth a different colour... ### Assistant You're right, sorry — I got sidetracked by the colour. You're asking what's *putting information there* in the first place. From what I found, the status bar at the bottom right of your screen has items from three sources: 1. **Core Backlinks plugin** — the "4 backlinks" count 2. **Core Word Count plugin** — the "1,527 words · 25,094 characters" 3. **Longform** (community plugin) — the additional word count with "project" label, since that file is part of your Longform manuscript The first two are built-in Obsidian core plugins (enabled in your config). The third is **Longform**, which is the only enabled community plugin that registers a status bar item — I confirmed this by searching every community plugin's code for `addStatusBarItem`. Longform adds scene/draft/project word counts when you're viewing a file inside a Longform project, which `3. Learning the Game.md` is. If you can tell me which specific piece of text you're curious about, I can pin it to one of those three definitively. Or if it's none of these — if the text you're seeing doesn't match "backlinks," "words/characters," or a project word count — then it might be something else I need to look at more carefully. *Tre fonti, una barra: due native di Obsidian, una dal plugin Longform che segue il tuo manoscritto.* ### User i don't want to have any of this stuff in the corner of my screen. i don't need to see any of it. now, i suspect you might start tlelling me to fiddle with individual plugins. but it seems to me that this must be an obsidian level think, to have info like thi sin the bottmn corner i mena. i just want to switch that off. think about what would be a good way of searching for the answer of this problem, then and only then do some research and some resacrhc and ome thing until the rpoblem is solved. onylth en though. ### Assistant Good thinking — this is an Obsidian-level UI element (the status bar), and you already have a plugin installed that's designed to hide exactly these things. Let me check it. ### Assistant You already have **Hider** installed and enabled, and it has a `hideStatus` setting — currently set to `false`. That's the status bar toggle. Just need to flip it: ### Assistant Done. The **Hider** plugin will now hide the entire status bar. You may need to restart Obsidian (or reload — Cmd+R) for it to take effect. All that red text at the bottom should be gone. *Una riga in un file di configurazione: il rumore scompare.* ### User it worked perfect. ### Assistant Good. Clean screen now. *Lo schermo respira meglio senza quel rumore visivo.*