Command - Open Folder

Feature requests
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Please add a command to open a specific folder.

  1. CMD+P to bring up the command interface
  2. Folder keyword to open the folder
  3. Type and search for folder name
  4. Enter to open the folder with notes.
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How is this different to the New Vault command?

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Opening up a new vault is opening up a whole new “database” of folders and notes. Vaults are not folders in organizational sense.

A command for opening up a folder within the current “database” or vault is exactly what it is.

Say I have many folders and sub folders and I want to open a folder on Travel to browse my notes in it. I can do this manually by digging into folders or I can use a command to quickly open the folder without digging. The command should also address the situation where there could be multiple folders of the same name. In this case, there should be a list of folders and their path for the user to choose from.

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so this command should make the File Explorer visible, with the specified folder selected and open?

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Yes. After you find the folder you are looking for the next step is to open it in the file explorer. - Selected and open.

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The path: search option does the job you are asking for. You can set a hotkey so as to open the file explorer and then click on the search icon and then choose the path which is essentially the folder at first level.

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@Walrux Please correct me but that is not solving the problem:
I understand that I can set a hotkey to open the file explorer. But then clicking on the search icon and entering ‘path:foldername’ will:

  1. not find the folder but only any files in it. It will not work if the folder is empty
  2. from there in the serach results I see no way to open the make the folder visible other than click and open a file and hotkey ‘reveal’ it. This is not only tedious but also not solving @slyfox problem. It will not return any result if the folder is empty.
    I would also welcome and +1 an easy and quick way to navigate to a specific folder in the file explorer, it is needed often.
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I would love to have this feature.
It seems like some of us think “folderwise” and often need this current feature and this other one: Allow [[links]] to folders - #15 by ryanjamurphy
I think this is, in my case, because I don’t have good memory and I find easier to remember the folder than the specific note so I miss both features big time.

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+1 as mentioned above path: keyword doesn’t solve the problem OP stated.

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Yes, the path: keyword won’t solve the problem.

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I’m a user who prefers keyboard interactions over mouse. I would very much like this feature—as well as the ability to create a folder from a command.

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need this so bad as well - it always breaks my flow when need to switch from keyboard to mouse and do a lot of scrolling and searching

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Massive plus 1 here. Obsidian seems to be the only note app that doesn’t use this model.

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I’ve spent a lot of time trying to achieve this. A command to open folder would be greatly appreciated and heavily utilized!

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Will be great to have a quick way to position directly to a folder. I can see that with “Quick Switcher” you have to 1st open a note, and then clicking the folder to be positioned on it, and with “search” you don’t position in the folder.

Do someone figured out any workaround to quickly be positioned in a specific folder?. Will be highly appreciated

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My use case is the following – I have a single vault that has subfolders for each project I am working on, or have worked on in the past. This is great as I can search within all projects.

Say I am now working on one project, and I want to focus on it. I would like a way to open a single subfolder in a new window, and the effect is as if that subfolder is its own vault. I can only see items in that folder. I can share my screen during a meeting, and only have that single folder and its contents visible. Searching will only find matches within that folder, and not potentially confidential information from other projects, or worse, embarrassing personal notes.

As far as I can tell none of this is currently possible, although I would love to be proven wrong!

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You can bookmark the desired folder (by right-clicking it and choose the bookmark option), then you can search for it in the Quick Search function just like with files. Ideally you can create a bookmark group and put all the bookmarks inside it, it can help you find the items easier, because for now you only need to type that bookmark group name (now it’s treated like path, I guess?) and it shows all the items inside it.

For example, I have a bookmark group named “Quick access,” then whenever I need to open quickly something I type “Quick access” and choose the item I want.

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