Wow, a long thread to go through. Another use case for this feature is virtual desktops. I have a virtual desktop per focus area. I then have my whole Google Drive as a vault and share the file system hierarchy, which is the same as the virtual desktop focus areas, between the file system and Obsidian. Currently, I can only open Obsidian on a single desktop when what would like to do is have a full window per desktop so that I can maintain state for that focus area, which is kind of the point of the virtual desktop approach. When I want to work on a focus area, I switch desktops and have everything at hand for the focus area. Will try playing around with symbolic links as outlined below, but at the danger of being repetitive, it would be very handy if Obsidian supported multiple windows to support his use case as well as the multiple monitor use case.
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