{"id":11556,"date":"2026-04-11T16:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11556"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:28:27","slug":"swipe-back-in-obsidian-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/11\/swipe-back-in-obsidian-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Swipe-back in Obsidian.md"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my Mac, I just figured out how to make it so you can swipe-back to a previous page, or swipe-forward to the next page using the trackpad. Here’s how:<\/p>\n

On your Mac, go to System Settings | Trackpad | More Gestures.
\nSet “Swipe between pages” to “Swipe with Three Fingers” (no, “Swipe with Two or Three Fingers” doesn’t work. Nor does “Scroll Left or Right with Two Fingers”)<\/p>\n

By setting this, you may have broken some other trackpad gestures on the same page. Fix ’em and move on and now you’ll be able to swipe-back and swipe-forward in Obsidian, as well as other apps (I’ve only tested Chrome so far)!<\/p>\n

For me, now I’ll have to use 3 fingers instead of 2, and it reverses the motion of what I am used to for swipe-right and swipe-left. And now I have to do a 4-finger swipe instead of a 3-finger swipe to slide my virtual windows. I certainly hope I’ll be able to get used to these changes!<\/p>\n

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On my Mac, I just figured out how to make it so you can swipe-back to a previous page, or swipe-forward to the next page using the trackpad. Here’s how: On your Mac, go to System Settings | Trackpad | More Gestures. Set “Swipe between pages” to “Swipe with Three Fingers” (no, “Swipe with Two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11559,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions\/11559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}