Summary
Integrate the functionality of the community plugin Folder Notes into Obsidian as a core feature.
Motivation
Many users — including myself — structure their vaults by topic-based folders. Having each folder automatically linked to a note with the same name (as Folder Notes does) makes vault navigation much more intuitive and cohesive. This connection turns each folder into both a logical and conceptual node within the vault.
Currently, using Folder Notes as a community plugin works well but feels like functionality that belongs in the core app. Folders naturally serve as containers for related content, and turning them into linkable notes opens up powerful new workflows.
Benefits
- Improved organization: Every folder automatically has its own overview note, keeping structure and content closely connected.
- Enhanced linking: Folders can be directly linked just like notes, enabling true cross‑connections between folder topics.
- Better conceptual mapping: This mirrors how users think about their knowledge domains—each folder as both a topic and a space for related notes.
- Smoother integration: As a core plugin, the feature could be more tightly integrated and stable, avoiding small bugs that sometimes occur with the community version (for example, folders not appearing bold anymore after adding a new subfolder without renaming).
- Consistent user experience: Reduces dependency on community plugins for what many users already treat as a fundamental organizational pattern.
Vision
If each folder could act both as a directory and as a note entity, users could:
- Build connections between folders similar to links between notes.
- Treat folders almost like tags, allowing for overlapping hierarchy structures (e.g., one folder conceptually belonging to multiple parent folders).
- Maintain a cleaner, more semantic vault without duplicating summary notes manually.
Conclusion
Making Folder Notes a core plugin would empower users to organize, navigate, and connect their vaults more seamlessly, while ensuring better performance and native reliability. It would bring structure and meaning perfectly together in one feature.
Thank you for considering this feature!