Navigate, move, indent and unindent by heading

Feature requests
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I can see this being a useful feature. Being able to drag-drop headings in the outliner would make it easy to reorder note sections.

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You can rearrange sections by dragging headings around in the default outline — even on mobile! (I don’t know if this was true back when the original request was posted.)

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This looks awesome!

Would love to see Obsidian or a plugin dev take inspiration from Gingko :raised_hands:

One could replicate such setup by opening three (or more) side-by-side panes in Obsidian and utilizing internal links (kind of like nested MOCs), though navigation between notes wouldn’t be nearly as smooth as in Gingko, which ‘removes friction from “drilling down” into detail’ and allows ‘to create a multi-level journal so that you can get line-of-sight from years, months, weeks, to days’, as Andy Matsuchak put it.

I support the request in the OP as well :+1:

Edit: turns out there’s a great Gingko-inspired plugin already: Lineage. Though one thing I don’t like about it is that it contains a whole project to a single source note, which is hard to navigate when viewed as a regular note (unless you add a heading to each ‘card’ manually, which is cumbersome).

Also, it’s more suited for starting a writing project from scratch and less so for structuring an existing collection of notes. I wish it could map onto an existing nested folder structure—that is, each ‘level’ in Gingko would be a regular Obsidian folder, with each of its separate notes being its own ‘card’. Each subsequent level in ‘Gingko view’ would be that folder’s subfolder, and so on.

I’ll make sure to write up feature requests for the auto-insertion of headings to aid navigation, and for such a ‘folder mode’. As of now, Canvas seems like a better fit for that sort of workflow.