Make tab groups collapsible

[Zwergziege]

Use case or problem

I have several topics / tasks I’m writing on and use a tab group (TG) for each of them. Sometimes those relate and I need to transfer / correlate between them, but not always. So sometimes I’d like to have just a single TG open and sometimes several. I don’t want to reopen all the files when switching between topics and thus want to keep the TGs open, but hidden.

Proposed solution

Extend TG capabilities by making tab groups collapsible similar to the sidebars. One solution would be to add a button / menu option in the bar with the open tabs. For horizontally split tab groups, pressing this button could collapse the TG into a narrow bar that lists the tabs vertically (essentially flipping the tab bar by 90°). The other case is analogous. Clicking any tab in a collapsed TG could restore the TG to its original size.
There could also be an option to shift focus and collapse all but one TG.

Current workaround

There are two workarounds that I currently consider:

• Use the work spaces plugin to save commonly used configurations, but that requires manual tracking of which tabs are relevant in which topic for each configuration.
• Making the tab groups as small as possible, but that wastes a good portion of the screen. Maybe this can be improved using custom CSS.

Related feature requests

Make tab groups dragable

Use case or problem Before Version 1.0 it was possible to rearrange panes by using the mouse, changing the layout of your opened notes however you see fit. Since Version 1.0 came out tabs have been introduced and what was once called panes is now called tab groups (I’d say). Proposed solution Give each tab group an icon and allow dragging a whole tab group so that rearranging the layout in Obsidian is easy. Current workaround (optional) Moving tabs one by one. You can drag and drop tabs in …

Extensions

Together with the FR above TGs / panes could be further enhanced by:

• Adding a menu option to close the whole group (workaround: close others + close).
• Open a workspace in a pane.

[Pixionus]

This please. I start my day with a weekly and daily in the left tab group and all the working tabs in the right. I reference them when updating a periodic note, but then would like to be able to collapse the periodic notes tab group while I focus on the task at hand (one of the tabs in the right hand tab group).

I’ve tried using multiple windows but sometimes that gets glitchy and most of the time I end up just lost in windows and things get complicated. I need to maintain a one window work space in Obsidian.
Using a workspace for the periodic “view” state and the working state is not a solution for me as it would not keep the current working tab in the right hand pane when I switch back to the periodic view.
At this time I rescale the tab groups manually. Maybe there’s some way to just toggle the tab group scaling on hotkey?