i just really wish we could have pop out windows. this would make thins so much simpler.
anyways thank you for the advise.
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Seems likely there’ll never be pop out windows here though, so it’s about finding the solution that best suits you.
is it just because of the base code of electron? or what ?
Yes. It would apparently be very difficult and time consuming (see posts above) at best. Obsidian and Dynalist have two developers and many priorities which would seem to give a greater gain for the effort expended. And there are workarounds for the pop out windows.
Hi, coming late to the party. Is there a chance one day we will see an update or a plugin that let us open multiple windows of the same vault?
Notion desktop app is based on Electron as far as I know and it allow multiple windows.
I just don’t get why Obsidian shine on niche and advanced stuff and lack on most of basilar things.
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Multiple monitors, using multiple desktops, windows, and instances of a program (IDE, terminal, pdf annotation, file manager, browser…) has become a standard part of my work flow whether it’s doing literature research (finding information), reading/listening/thinking and note taking, exploratory data analysis, writing of any sort… I’m wary of nesting (conflict resolution → data corruption) when there isn’t a clear control hierarchy or version control. Having the option to have separable windows in the same instance resolves that while promoting the expanded utility of Obsidian. Not being able to do this is a significant limitation for those of us unable to accommodate large monitors.
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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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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.
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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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This does look like a situation that suits nested vaults.
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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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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Just adding my vote for this – having multiple Obsidian windows (one for each monitor) would significantly improve my experience!
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I want the same thing you. Open the same vault on multiple windows
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Yes and if I may add, pop-out a single note (without all the sidebar stuff).
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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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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 
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Another vote for multi-window. That would be great!
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Any updates? +1
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Without this feature I cannot migrate from Evernote.
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