#128

I’m duplicating information using Excel, Word or in PDFs so I can load it using those apps. It becomes a pain very quickly but is necessary for me. I would love to be able float windows in Obsidian.

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#129

I’m wary of nesting (conflict resolution → data corruption)

You’re not going to have conflicts or data corruption. Obsidian is live-reading and live-writing to all open notes and auto-updates them as changes occur.

#130

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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#131

This does look like a situation that suits nested vaults.

#132

A thought here, you can open the same vault on multiple computers and you can open multiple vaults on the same computer. Why not allow the same vault to be open multiple times on the same computer?

I am sure there are some issues, but this would not be an Electron limitation as the work around suggested is basically opening parts of your main vault as a different vault.

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#133

I too have an assortment of monitors of wildly varying sizes and resolutions. These screens are an essential part of my workflow, and being unable to utilize them as I do with every other program I use is a crippling downside to Obsidian.

Multi-window support would radically enhance the utility of this program. Are there any devs here that can speak to the likelihood/timeline to when this functionality might be added?

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#134

Just adding my vote for this – having multiple Obsidian windows (one for each monitor) would significantly improve my experience!

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#135

I want the same thing you. Open the same vault on multiple windows

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#136

Yes and if I may add, pop-out a single note (without all the sidebar stuff).

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#137

Similar to others, I have the following setup:

  • Multiple virtual desktops to maintain state per topic e.g desktop 1: ‘sprint planning’, desktop 2: ‘2022 strategy meeting’
  • One minimalist note taking app per virtual desktop (It’s Onenote, but I want to move to Obsidian)

So I need multi instance to be able to have a note taking app per virtual desktop.
Also, I’d ideally like to be able to load a minimal Obsidian window (e.g. no sidebars), with a shortcut key. This is because I want to capture a thought as soon as I think of it, and without distraction.

Thanks!

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#138

VSCode now supports this btw

ctrl + shft + p → Workspaces: duplicate as workspace in a new window

As a developer I’m sure this would be annoying to program but it is possible :slight_smile:

#139

Another vote for multi-window. That would be great!

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#140

Any updates? +1

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#141

Without this feature I cannot migrate from Evernote.

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#143

+1 for this feature. This is one of the big things that causes me to hesitate moving everything over to Obsidian.

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#144

Issue closed as not fixed on Electron’s repository, buuuut, possible for someone to look into this route mentiond on the Electron issue? Multipe instances of an Electron app have problems with localStorage · Issue #2493 · electron/electron · GitHub

I’m assuming Obsidian can detect keyboard/mouse (focus on window) and decide which window to obtain the file “lock” (for writing).

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#145

Adding one more vote for this! Seems like there were a few feature requests in 2020 for a similar function, Now it’s all tracked in this thread?

I’m not even using multiple monitors, just one big one. It’s easier for my brain to be able to visually separate ideas and move them around on the screen.

My work-around is using a seperate markdown editor (Typora, Mark Text) to open individual files for viewing or editing outside of my vault window. The downside is losing some of the functionality of Obsidian, like hotkeys and plugins, meaning I sometimes have to jump into the same note from Mark Text to Obsidian if I’m doing more than just writing text.

Edit to add: I have considered making a vault from a subfolder to have two Obsidian instances open, but it would be nice to avoid that.

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#146

+1 for Multi-Window on desktop

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#147

+1, it would incredible for multi-monitor setups

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#148 
ln -s /mnt/external_drive/stock_photos ~/stock_photos

may be similar methods like symbolic-link-linux can work as a solution