Improvement of opening already visible files in the presence of pinned tabs

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@rruusu

When the currently active tab is not pinned: An unpinned tab already showing that file is activated.

That’s not what happens. Try in the sandbox vault.

In general, pinned tab in obsidian means DO NOT open here and nothing else.

@rruusu

Suggested behavior: When opening an existing file via any command or UI, the default should be to primarily activate any existing tab already showing the file, regardless of its pinning status.

Seem like you are asking for this

IDE style navigation (tab reuse on link opening, tab management, switch to already open note)

MOD-EDIT: This is a reorganized FR Currently, Obsidian uses a Browser-style navigation system. You click on link, it opens it in that tab. An alternative approach is to follow IDEs (Integrated develop environment/Code Editors). IDEs generally don’t navigate within a tab. You click on a link and it either: Moves the focus to a tab where the target was already opened or A new tab with the target is opened. IDEs navigate in the current tab only if the target of the link is in current tab …