Allow [[links]] to folders

[CawlinTeffid]

Waypoint doesn’t link to folders unless they contain folder notes (a note with the same name as its parent folder).

[ariehen]

As someone said above, I’m neither for or against this. If linking to a [[folder]] were a thing, great, but what would actually happen when you click on the link? Highlight the folder in the Files tab? Without a folder note, I don’t see much else happening.

@cwhiii

The alternative, ![[someFolderPath]] could write out a list of all the files and folders in the given folder. Perhaps, if we wanted to get really fancy it could have a few pipe options such as ![[someFolderPath|files]] to display only files, ![[someFolderPath|folders]] to display only the folders, or without a pipe option, which would display both files & folders.

This is interesting, but again, I think some kind of folder note is needed.

Current options collected from this thread:

Linking within Obsidian

• Link to a folder note (and use Waypoint or something similar to list every note in that folder).

• Use [folder](obsidian://search?vault=Vault&query=path:this/folder) to open the Search tab showing all the notes in the folder.

Linking to external folders (opens in Finder or File Explorer)

• mac: [folder](<file:///Users/USER/Documents/MyFolder>)

• Windows: [folder](<file:///C:/Users/USER/Desktop/PathTo/MyFolder>)