'New note' button when hovering over folder name

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Use case or problem

One may set their Cmd/Ctrl+N command and file explorer New Note icon to always create note in a specified folder. To create a note in another folder then, they must:

1. Navigate to folder in the file explorer
2. Right click on folder
3. Select “New Note”

This can get rather tiresome if one needs create lots of new notes.

Proposed solution

A simple + icon when hovering over a folder name would save one the trouble of having to bring up the context menu every time to perform such a common action.

Current workaround (optional)

The community plugin MAKE.MD implements this:

Related feature requests (optional)

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