+1 for this feature
+1 it is absolutely necessary and would solve many problems.
The simplest and most practical is an .ignore file in my opinion.
Itād 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, itād be lovely!
In my view, this should disappear the folder and its contents from File Explorer, Graph, Search, autocomplete listsā¦ everything!
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+1 for this feature and I believe we have the same reason.
To add some context for others, Iāve 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 & comā¦ are system folders for NotePlan)
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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 āv2 v3 v4ā variants of articles I produce as theyāre iterated uponā¦
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Iām on board!
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canāt you use the .folder for this?
I donāt 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 wouldnāt be able to use those folders if we changed their path.
But even beyond NotePlan, I have files in my folders I donāt 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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+1 Iām also experimenting with NotePlan and other apps integration using the same folder, so obviously the possibility to hide certain folders would be very handy
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Another +1
I, too, am playing with integrating NotePlan and Obsidian. 
This would be helpful for those of us who arenāt interested in seeing notes such as templates or attachments.
āRight-click > hideā would be great, with an option to āshow hidden filesā when needed.
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Yes, urgently!
Iām parsing .md files before pushing out to git. Iām therefore having a duplicate of each file. Obsidian hence insists on fully qualified links. Iāve tried chflags hidden but obsidian choses to ignore it.
Thanks!
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+1 Itād be really useful
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+1 too. Thank you for your consideration.
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+1. Would be very useful to ignore specific folders within a vault, specially during operations like searching and moving file to other folder.
Thanks.
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+1
I need this feature too.
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I like to add .obsidian to my development projectās folder, making them a Vault, but it would be nice, if I could keep some stuff out of view in the GUI and not have them getting processed by Obsidian.
This wouldnāt really help my issue with the templates folder going into the Vaultās root, however, since I want to hide that from the projectās root folder, not from Obsidian. If you also would like the templates folder to go from the Vaultās root into .obsidian, please show your support at Place ātemplatesā folder in ā.obsidianā but expose to UI. Thanks.
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This is a great feature request. I would also add the option to select whether one can still search & embed notes/images/other data from the hidden folders. Also through a right-click menu, something like Keep this folder searchable.
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As hidden asset folders are not supported currently I went with a workaround. I posted this in a similar thread: Show / hide file types to be shown in file explorer - #17 by cmprmsd
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