How do I make the file menu show only notes?

[NickMullen]

Stupid question, I know.

I’d like to have the menu that comes up on the left show ONLY notes instead of every file within every note. I feel like when I first installed Obsidian a few years ago, this was the default view. Am I crazy, here?

[holroy]

Are you referring to Settings > Files & links > Detect all file extensions switch? Try toggling that and see if that speed your issue.

[ariehen]

In addition to not displaying the file extensions, a lot of people keep some kind of “meta” folder with other folders inside it to tuck away Obsidian related stuff: Attachments, Templates, Templater-Templates, etc.

{VAULT}
└── 00 meta
    ├── Attachments
        └── screenshot1.png
        └── screenshot2.png
    ├── Templates
    ├── Templater-Templates
└── 01 Journal
└── 02 Projects
└── 03 ...
├── Untitled
├── Untitled1

You can set that in Settings > Files & Links (just under the Detect all…), then set a default folder for your attachments.

[NickMullen]

No, that’s already switched off for me, and the files still show up in the left bar.

[NickMullen]

Thanks. What a pain though. Creating the folder and moving all the old attachments over unlinks them with the old notes.

It doesn’t work. The attachments still show up in the left menu.