I made a little recording to show the power of emacs’ org-mode, I believe this has everything needed to make Obsidian folding features perfect!
https://imgur.com/UNK6i6u
It was hard to show exactly how it works in a short video like this, but long-story short.
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I use
tab
to fold and unfold, andshift
+tab
to cycle through opening and closing all headings. -
This is somewhat possible with Obisdian, but it’s not possible to map just
tab
as a hotkey unfortunately. -
Org-mode folding feels natural, fast and intuitive (specially with vim-keybindings)
I truly believe Obisidan can get to this level of advanced folding.
Org-mode is able to do it with org files, but also with .md (markdown) files without any limitations.
Advantages and additional features
start a file with all headings folded
org mode allows to determine in the metadata (top of the file)
this type of settings per note
#+STARTUP: overview
#+STARTUP: content
#+STARTUP: showall
#+STARTUP: showeverything
org mode docs initial visibility
this allows the user to chose if everything should be folded by default (I do that 90% of the times)
Moving around content
With org-mode is super easy to move around folded content, around the document.
This can all be done with vim-style shortcuts.
(Currently obsidian struggles to move around content without messing up what’s inside a sub-heading)
my contribution
I created a snippet called Org-sidian bullets
Org-sidian Bullets ◉ Instead Of # For Headers (Inspired by org-mode)
this is more for the style of bullets (to replace #
)
but unfortunately all the folding functionality cannot be controlled by this snippet I made, and my skill level doesn’t allow me to attempt a plugin to add this functionality (not sure if it’s even possible)
This feature is the only thing I have to go out of Obsidian to use my notes. If folding evolves I think it would make Obsidian so much better.
Thanks!