Global filter buttons (Mini vaults)

[777]

Use case and proposed solution

foobar2000 has an ancient component (plugin) called Facets. One of its features was a list of buttons called filters. When you click one, it shows only audio files matching that filter (which can be set by any property). https://i.imgur.com/9GVf8Sn.png

The benefit of that feature that applies to Obsidian is to quickly hide all notes not relevant for the current scope. Facets hides non-matching audio files even from search and menus. You only see what you want at the moment. Sort of like mini temporary vaults.

Current workaround (optional)

You can use search, but:

1. it doesn’t apply to the Files view.
2. It is not “persistent until turned off”
3. Facets-like buttons free search to be used (and cleared) with ease.

[777]

The more I use Obsidian (for more than just a second brain, which is one connected vault), the more I realize how I need this scoped focus feature. Because the effort to manage multiple vaults (and syncing settings, plugins) is too much and gets harder as you go on.

I don’t want to be forced to create a new vault to have a clean list of tags, switcher results, link suggestions, etc.

[WhiteNoise]

What you are asking is a variation of

Vault Zones/Filters/Focuses (alternative to nested vaults)

Ive been reading about nested vaults wich accomplish a lot of what i want but arent supported and have their own issues; most of what i saw suggests/requests support for then but i think its the wrong way to tackle it (and involves a lot more of headache for coding, memory and such). Heres a different proposal: Use case or problem Handling specific contexts that are too large inside an large and growing main vault- like specific projects- creates a lot of noise; Creating another vault is an way…

Both are quite complex to achieve. I am gonna close this FR and suggest you post in the FR above.

There are also some narrower FRs in this vein, like:

Focus (Hoist) a folder in the vault

Would like to be able to double-click a folder in the current vault to focus it (e…g, hoist it) so that it appears as the current top level folder in the folder view.

Add Filter bar in File Explorer panel (filtering)

Search is invaluable and i like to see search results in context so that is all good. On the file list, i often want to be able to FILTER the file names, much like nvAlt and probably other tools. I am not looking to find content, i am looking to quickly navigate to a file that i know exists – like a project name, a person’s name. A quick filter will return a very short list for me and I can get right in. This could be a plugin possibly or an core feature that can be shown or hidden via setting…

[777]

That topic didn’t pop up when I created this one, but after a cursory reading, I think it talks about the same or a very similar thing.

Thanks for bringing it up. I will continue there.

[nehakakar]

I think having filter buttons like the ones in foobar2000 would be a great addition. It would help in focusing on specific notes without the hassle of managing multiple vaults or searches.