A plugin that would emulate what apps like Ulysses or Scrivener can do, by chaining together multiple documents. This might be done by naming the documents sequentially depending on the order they appear in the file browser. If multiple documents are selected they would appear as one document in the editor - with section/page break lines where the documents split. Reordering documents in the browser would automatically rename them. It would also work with documents in folders, so one could essentially have a nested outline in the file browser, without having to have outline features in the editor itself. (Better for long form writing.) There should also be an option to then output the entire document (folder) as a single DOC or PDF file with nice formatting.

implemented in plugin: GitHub - gasparschott/obsidian-continuous-mode: An Obsidian plugin that displays all open notes in a tab group as a single continuous document (sometimes called “Scrivenings mode”). Features arrow navigation between notes, reorder notes with drag-and-drop of tab headers. [image] GitHub - gasparschott/obsidian-continuous-mode: An Obsidian plugin that... An Obsidian plugin that displays all open notes in a tab group as a single continuous document (sometimes called "Scrivenings mode"). Features arrow navigation between notes, reorder note...

Related functionality within Obsidian is vertically oriented Andy mode. Looking forward to see it as native option within Sliding panes (Andy mode) plugin. keywords: continuous, sequence, view

Have there been any developments on this front? Having the ability to “chain” together documents, combined with the recent Citations plugin, will enable me to shift my entire writing process from Scrivener to Obsidian. Thanks!

Definitely @malecjan! The idea of a more useful and clearer outliner seems to be realised in the https://gingkowriter.com/ . The recipy? Taking the outline and separate the different levels horizontally. It allows you to work on granular level, but keeps you in the big picture at the same time, to navigate and restructure the document. Very ADHD-friendly! @tallguyjenks puts it here nicely: https://youtu.be/dxCJHHWyNzY What do you think @WhiteNoise ? examples in Ginko: [grafik] [grafik] [grafik] [grafik] Related to plugin/FR ideas in these posts: [image] Navigate, move, indent and unindent by heading Feature requests What if notes had outline management features built around headings? So being able to move headings (and their content) up and down as well as indenting forward and backward (example: changing from heading 2 to heading 3). Hotkeys for all of these commands as well as hotkeys for navigating up and down between headings. These features could also be part of the Outline plugin. Some inspiration from Microsoft Word’s “Outline” view: [image] Related: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/go-to-heading-qui… https://forum.obsidian.md/t/outline-core-plugin-improvement/9540?u=sofortlos

+1 to this as well. This ability of Ulysses / Scrivener is really key to many writers.

+1 behause it fills an important gap in knowledge management with obsidian: knowledge transfer into hierarchical structure :fire: Gingko Desktop would certainly be a good basis to enable a local API Or a plugin based on the Gingko Source Code created by this amazing community (like a hybrid of Mindmap and Kanban)

maybe thats a way? [image] Kanban Plugin Share & showcase @mgmeyers great work! You list https://www.speare.com as a possible inspiration for Kanban. Revolutionary in the process of writing by going granular and keeping the big picture at the same time. Definitely a valuable idea to include this as a Kanban-feature!!! https://gingkowriter.com/ is another example ( less kanban but great! https://youtu.be/J4prcx0jZ9M) Already mentioned here under Document Spanning:

Until this becomes a feature or plugin, try Settings > Editor > Fold heading (& optionally Fold indent). With this and the Fold all and Unfold all commands you can: Fold all headings to get an overview. Use a comment or even nothing as heading text if you don’t need a real heading — it will still fold. (These also appear in the Outline core plugin’s view.) Unfold the 1 section you want to work on. Unfold all to see the whole document Select and drag or cut-paste folded sections to change the order. I’ve long been intrigued by Scrivener’s corkboard and I’ve used Ulysses’s pasting a little, but this works well enough for me (maybe better, for my taste). I often fold all and then unfold 1 to navigate a document. Some will still prefer full document spanning, of course.

Longform gives Obsidian writerly wings. Angel

+1 This “Scrivener mode” would be such a great feature to have. I could switch to Obsidian as my only knowledge collection & writing application then. Have all the folder notes concatenated and editable in this view, drag and drop them to change the order of the parts :heart: As for now, I have to switch between the apps a lot when composing using my Obsidian collected knowledge elements.

A couple of stray duplicate requests from last year: [image] Index card view Plugins ideas I think index card view (corkboard-note taking(like in scrivener or google-keep)) could be vary useful. obsidian for me (that I want it for taking atomic notes) still is not very handy, I just keeping forget my last notes. I used google-keep for 2 years and I’m here for find links between my notes; but now I can’t make new of them. [image] Infinite scroll on multiple selected notes Feature requests It would be good to be able to select multiple pages in the search or file explorer [shift click or cmd click] and have them all appear as a continuous scroll. I think Ulysses does something similar. That way I could search for a few keywords and scroll through all of the notes seeing the highlights. Or I could select all of the files in the daily folder to see them sequentially like a blog.

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sofortlos June 6, 2021, 9:12pm 19

maybe thats a way?