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.
Concept of a note that may contain note(s) very ubiquitous among modern editors. I think this should be considered as extension of obsidian flavored markdown with some “folder notes links” (even if part of this not meant for markup).
How “folder notes links” should work from my perspective: instead of writing [[link/to/folder-note/folder-note]] we may just write this with an additional slash [[link/to//folder-note]].
This should be extension of standard, not “just a plugin”.
+1, and this would replace the page/subpage/subpage structure that we have in many other tools (Notion, Coda, Fibery…) that otherwise become not possible (or with overhead)
I’d love if you could click on a folder and see a page similar to Notes.
Use case or problem
I use Obsidian for a lot of my Dungeons & Dragons notes. I have notes on all the locations in the setting, sorted into folders based on what country they’re in.
Using real-world examples: USA folder, with California, Oregon, etc notes inside it. I’d love to click USA and be able to edit the country right there instead of having to make a USA note.
Proposed solution
I’d love to be able to click on the country folder and add notes about the specific country, instead of having to make a separate note page for it. I think it would look a lot cleaner than having a folder and a note named the same thing in the same spot!
Current workaround (optional)
Right now I just make a new note page and put it in the same spot as the folder (or sometimes I’ll put it inside the folder with the same name) but it ends up looking messy that way.
I apologize if this is already posted somewhere or if it’s posted with the wrong tags, I did search the forums and didn’t find anything!
No, thanks. A folder is a folder, not a document. If you want to put notes on a folder itself, there’s a plugin that already adds a note to a folder: Folder Notes
Markdown is note based. There are far better ways to “containerize” notes - tags and the other neglected, but powerful, metadata in properties and, the most powerful of all → links.