I’m wondering if there’s any plugin (or snippet) that allows you to choose the folder of a new note by Ctrl+clicking on a (yet) non-existing note, instead of creating the note AND having to move it to the right folder. I’m already familiar with the “Advanced New File” plugin, but as far as I know it only works with new notes created by its own command in the command palette, not with inline new notes.
I think it could be a nice feature for someone’s workflow if you organize your notes in folders, specially if there are a lot of them to choose from.
Or let us designate an inbox folder for new notes. It’s kinda annoying that new notes are at the bottom of file explorer pane. Because obsidian sorts the folders at the top.
Yes. But by changing the default location in that way, I can only specify one particular folder. Instead, I want to be able to choose the folder each time I create a new note via linking.
I’d prefer this as well, to be able to be asked every time where to store the note. The fastest alternative is to have a hotkey for “move file”, but given that hotkey availability is rather limited for me (mostly because I need a lot, but must fit it onto a small laptop keyboard as well).
I would find this option tedious, because I almost always want the new note in the same folder. I use the Quick Explorer plugin, so when that’s not what I want I just create it there anyway, right-click on the filename in the path shown in the title bar, and choose Move file to.
There’s also the option to Show in system explorer when I have a lot of moving or renaming to do.
We lack “Select folder on note creation” in: Settings > Files & Links > “Default location for new notes”. It is so obvious it should be there! If you have more thematic folders in your Vault you frequently want some notes to be placed in varying locations. There is no such plugin. You have to right click every time to move newly created file and it’s so ANNOYING and DISTRACTING! It should be easy to implement too: add one option in combo + folder selection dialog.
I agree. I have a Meetings folder where i might link to a ‘person’ but when i click on the link it creates the note for the person in the Meetings folder instead of the People folder.
Consequently, the wrong template is applied and i have to redo all that each time i create a person note this way.
An option to pick the folder the note should be created in, would go a long way
I’ve not read the entire thread, but this can be handled with Templater and a default folder template and a choice of which folder to store in, possibly with defaulting to the same folder you’re already in.
The template could then proceed to trigger other templates if need be.
When the template is running the file has already been created, and you would need to move the file to the correct folder, but no it wouldn’t create a loop.
I need this too. A workaround for the time being is including the folder in the wikilink, for example [[foldername/notename]]. this works reasonably well enough for me, because i limit the folder tree complexity, loosely follwing the johnny decimal structure. the drawback is an ugly path instead of just the note name. the patch for this is [[foldername/notename|notename]]. but that’s getting out of hand and is inconvenient.
a key modifier (i.e. shift-click on a note) would do wonders however
+1 for adding this feature, would be nice to be prompted to specify a folder each time a new note is created, rather than having to do a 2nd “thinking” step to move the note.
If it were an automatic prompt, I wouldn’t need to periodically empty my inbox. Sure, if I would just remember to move the note right away I’d avoid that, but I often forget or am working quickly on something and let it slip. Hope it’s implemented.
I solved this challenge for my own use case about a year ago. If I recall correctly my solution is a combination of Templater, QuickAdd and a central javascript that gets called via Templater whenever a note is created - unless I explicitely create a note in a specific folder (via Obsidian’s file manager). This workflow is my central, daily driver for my note creation process since.
The user experience is a three-step flow as follows:
Note that the third step is skipped when the name for the note is already known - i.e. when the note creation is triggered via a click on a link to a non-existing note.
This is a highly opinionated workflow and IMHO implementing functionality alike into the Obsidian core app would be a vioalation of the design-principles that make Obsidian the great app that it is.
I am happy to document and share the solution details (as time permits) and refine same with the community (as in adapting it to cater for more use case variations and eliminate any glitches along the way), should there be a broader interest.
