#71

It’s incredible how fast a vault can get bigger, even if you are careful not to include everything in it.

#72

Yep, especially given I have been using Obsidian more and more like a filer explorer interface, which means I open the topmost folder (my entire OneDrive folder) as vault to ensure obsidian has access to everything. That does mean however that when searching obsidian also goes through all my pictures for example, which is wasted time (I still want to be able to link to them easily in my notes, but they don’t need to be parsed when doing a search).

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#73

+1 please!

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#74

Any news about this?

#75

+1 Add me to the list.

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#76

It’s been a few years since this thread was started. People have routinely been adding requests to it to be added as a feature. I would like to do two things:

  1. Add my voice to those requesting this.
  2. Ask if there are any devs who can weigh in on this. Is this a futile hope, or is there a chance this will actually happen some day?
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#77

+1 from me, too

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#78

Ask if there are any devs who can weigh in on this. Is this a futile hope, or is there a chance this will actually happen some day?

I have the very same doubt.

#79

+1 from me too

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#80

+1 too

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#81

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It hasn’t been considered yet. At least it’s not in the roadmap.

#82

+1 for this feature

#83

+1 it is absolutely necessary and would solve many problems.
The simplest and most practical is an .ignore file in my opinion.

#84

It’d be nice to be able to hide select folders from Obsidian.

I have a few, say, utility folders inside my Obsidian vault that help with interoperability for other apps. The contents have little to do with my notes. If I could hide them manually via the context menu, it’d be lovely!

In my view, this should disappear the folder and its contents from File Explorer, Graph, Search, autocomplete lists… everything!

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#85

+1 for this feature and I believe we have the same reason.

To add some context for others, I’ve selected the NotePlan app folder as my vault so that it syncs automatically with NotePlan on iOS, which gives Obsidian a lovely mobile client and some bonus features like repeating tasks.

But this is what it looks like in Obsidian (Filters & com… are system folders for NotePlan)
Screen Shot 2020-09-16 at 6.00.10 PM

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Show / hide file types to be shown in file explorer
How do I work with Obsidian on Mobile?
Hide files or filetypes from Obsidian
#86

Heh, you got it. Improved quality of life in interoperating with NotePlan is the main reason.

But there are some other use-cases. Folders of receipts, random assets used in rich media, all the “v2 v3 v4” variants of articles I produce as they’re iterated upon…

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#87

I’m on board!

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#88

can’t you use the .folder for this?

#89

I don’t want the folder hidden on the OS (nor hidden to other apps). In this particular use case (screenshotted by @jacklaing), NotePlan uses the com.microsoft.appcenter and Filters folders for some special app magic. It wouldn’t be able to use those folders if we changed their path.

But even beyond NotePlan, I have files in my folders I don’t want Obsidian to be aware of (they cause clutter and make search results noisy, etc.). But I still want to be able to grab those files easily from e.g., Finder.

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#90

Related discussion: Ignore a folder of temporary notes

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