Control Explorer pane with arrow keys

Use case or problem

Looking at 30 adjacent notes (as when browsing all my recent notes) requires using the mouse to navigate to a specific (small) spot 30 different times and clicking 30 different times.

This is a lot of cognitive friction that reduces my focus on the task I’m trying to do.

Proposed solution

My needs are less comprehensive. I’d really like to be able to browse adjacent notes in the Explorer by using the up and down arrow keys. I’m asking for just this one UI feature in the hope that it would be implemented quicker than a comprehensive solution that allows keyboard access for many common UI tasks.

Current workaround (optional)

none, other than mouse control

Related feature requests (optional)

Sorry, I don’t know how to link to other postings. Various people have asked for different levels of control of the Obsidian UI through the keyboard (search on “explorer arrow keys” to see five requests).

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