Just for the sake of organization, here is the one feature that I think would make a significant difference: creating a new pane for results (whether search or backlinks). This would be a game changer and would address the problem of not fully transcluding backlinks, limited context in results, etc.:
If I have:
My pane(s) is pinned
I have a tab in the sidebar (this of course cannot be pinned)
See attached screenshot
When I am reviewing my linked/unlinked mentions from the backlink view and I select an entry, it should NOT create a new pane NOR should it change the backlink view to the newly selected note. Instead, the tab in my sidebar should be updated and the backlink view should still be on the note that is pinned.
This seems intuitive to me in the way that pinned tabs should work in …
And here are some new issues that I’ve seen with the overall pane design and execution that hampers user experience:
Steps to reproduce
Have multiple panes (let’s say pane X and pane Y)
Create some navigation history for each pane, but alternate this history (e.g., go to new note in pane X, then new note in pane Y, then new note in pane X, etc.)
Try navigating back or forth on pane X or Y
Expected result
Navigation of back and forth should be limited to simply the focused pane. It should not take you to another pane regardless of how you’ve switched from pane X to Y or vice versa
Actual result
Navigation…
Often times, I use Obsidian with another application (side-by-side view with a PDF article or Word Doc or an ebook from a browser, etc.). When the focus is originally on a different application, I need to click twice on Obsidian if I want to change the focus to a particular pane in Obsidian. So e.g.,
I have multiple panes in Obsidian (let’s say pane X and pane Y)
I placed my focus on pane X in Obsidian
Now I change my focus to Adobe Acrobat reader
I click on pane Y of Obsidian
Expected result…