Folder as markdown note

Archie · February 2, 2021, 2:44pm

I tried, It’s not working.
Also, every time I reopen obsidian the notes are visible, they only hide when I click on their folder.

akos0215 · June 12, 2021, 3:54pm

I think my plugin called Zoottelkeeper does something similar: it creates and maintains index files of every folder and subfolder, and reflects on events of file creation, deletion and file or subfolder move.

It can be tried via the official catalog of plugins in Obsidian.
and last but not least: any feature requests, feedbacks and/or stars are welcome on git:

MattyJ · June 19, 2021, 1:17pm

I really liked reading Dendron’s website too. Could this be accomplished with hierarchy tags? The refactoring part is where this gets tricky. We need to be able to edit the name of the tags (edit the hierarchy) when branches need modified or “moved”. This isn’t possible in Obsidian at this time, which you also commented on here.

AND · July 5, 2021, 9:15pm

+1 for the feature request. I also come from Trilium Notes, and this was a really attractive feature that I can’t find here in Obsidian.

aidenlx · July 9, 2021, 11:18am

It’s not a feature request and unlikely to be added to core. But you can try alx-folder-note. Not yet available in community list but its basic function is much more improved.

aidenlx · August 8, 2021, 4:06pm

For anyone who is using xpgo’s folder note, I’ve published a new folder note plugin with many huge improvements, now available on community plugins list: aidenlx/alx-folder-note

atiz · August 21, 2021, 5:28pm

This is really great, thank you @aidenlx!!

I have one request and not sure how doable that is (no programmer here…). I usually store my “note description” not in a YAML field but in an inline field (like Abstract:: xxxx). Would it be possible for the plugin to recognize these for the Description Field?
I really love that you can set a description field and so on the “note cards” the intended description appears. It would just make this feature a little more useful for me.

Again, thanks for the great plugin!

aidenlx · August 22, 2021, 6:03pm

Tracked in here now: Feature: Support dataview fields · Issue #19 · aidenlx/alx-folder-note · GitHub

atiz · August 22, 2021, 7:27pm

Thank you – this would be awesome! (And sorry for not creating it on GitHub directly.)

jechave · August 23, 2021, 2:37am

Great plugin, just what I was looking for!! Thanks

One thing I think would be helpful, being able to choose default action when clicking the notes, for example: Open in new window by default.

aidenlx · August 23, 2021, 3:50am

You should be able to do so by middle clicking on note title

jechave · August 23, 2021, 4:45am

I don’t get the same behaviour, when clicking the note title from the folverv it opens the note, when doing it with CTRL key then it opens two pages of the note.
See the following gif

Valery_Kondakoff · August 23, 2021, 1:05pm

Any chance to support Obsidian on iOS/iPadOS?

Valery_Kondakoff · August 23, 2021, 2:26pm

Seems to work quite well after changing isDesktopOnly in manifest.json to false:

Valery_Kondakoff · August 23, 2021, 5:21pm

There is a (configuration iCloud sync related?) issue though: folders are behaving like ordinary folders if I open/close Obsidian on any of my other devices.

Here is an explanation:

I’m opening Obsidian on my iMac, everything is working great. The folders are looking like this:
Now I’m closing Obsidian on iMac and switch to iPad and opening/closing Obsidian here
Then I’m going back to iMac. After opening Obsidian the folders are looking like this (so, they are normal folders without associated notes):
Restarting the app on iMac makes folders work like notes again.

The same happens on iPhone if I’m opening/closing Obsidian on iMac: I should restart an app to force folders to act like a note. This does not happens if I’m not opening Obsidian on other devices. This makes me think, that this is some kind of configuration sync issue. I use iCloud-based synchronisation.

UPD: this does not to be an issue when using xpgo’s folder note.

Do you have any ideas how this can be fixed?

Thanks!

aidenlx · August 25, 2021, 10:41am

tracked here: Open file in folderv with modifier also open it in original leaf · Issue #20 · aidenlx/alx-folder-note (github.com)

aidenlx · August 25, 2021, 10:46am

Can you show me the console output on your iMac when this issue occurred? Screen recording with console opened is even better.

To check for errors, first open the developer tools by pressing Ctrl-Shift-I on Windows/Linux or Cmd-Opt-I on macOS, and then go to the “Console” tab. If you want to save the error to a log file, you can right click on the error and choose “Save as…”.

Valery_Kondakoff · August 25, 2021, 11:17am

Here it is: file-explorer not found error on Obsidian startup right after Obsidian was started/closed on other device:

Here is a link to a log file.

arcandio · April 4, 2022, 6:11pm

A bit late, but thank you so much, @xpgo and @aidenlx for working on these plugins! I happened to stop posting before they were developed and missed the whole thing, but I’m incredibly thankful for you working so hard on them! Now I’m going to go describe my folders finally!

porterhaus · May 6, 2022, 4:57pm

I would love this functionality but for Obsidian Publish! I had the same idea of having a note named the same as the folder name and then when you click on the folder it takes you to that note by default.