Creating notes in sub-folders is not convenient or quick.
Proposed solution
When creating a new note w ctrl-N, if the note is named with a slash like so: ‘foldername/notename’ it can be auto moved into that folder and renamed without the foldername.
Current workaround (optional)
right-click in the file explorer and choose new-note from the popup menu. If there are open folders in the file explorer or many folders this could involve a bit of scrolling to find the right folder.
if you are making a link to the new note enter the folder [ [ foldername/notename ] ] and the new note will be in the specified folder, but the link will not be cleaned up and will show the folder name
You can already do this. Try using Ctrl-O for open instead of Ctrl-N for new. Then if you type folder/new note, it will put a new note with that name in that folder automatically.
If the folder doesn’t exist, the folder gets created too.
Except… I seem to have found a bug, but don’t know how to recreate it yet. If I type more than one folder, folderA/folderB/New Note I can’t see folderB or New Note in the file explorer. But I’m testing this on iPad, so I can’t easily inspect the filesystem at the moment. The subfolder exists in my iPad Files app, but doesn’t show up in Obsidian.
Ah I see. Control-O folder/note-note works great. Control-N folder/new-note also works but it gives you an error message that filename cannot contain “/”. It works anyway despite the error message. Misleading error should be fixed.
I often want to create a new note in a particular folder. I’d like to be able to do this using only the keyboard. I’d also rather specify the new file & path in one operation rather than having separate creation and move steps.
Proposed solution
I’d love to be able to create a new note in a folder by pressing Ctrl-N and then typing “foldername/notename”, with the intention that this new note named “notename” be located inside “foldername”. This would ideally work for nested folders. If a folder did not yet exist, it would also be lovely to create it.
Trying this on Obsidian 1.3.7 AppImage on Ubuntu just gives a “file name cannot contain any of these characters: ‘/’” error and does not move this file.
Current workaround (optional)
Create a new note in the default location and then move it to the folder
Use the Open menu by pressing Ctrl-O, then type “foldername/notename” and press Shift-Enter to create the new note - works but clunky, have to re-map new note creation desire to “open” shortcut
Related feature requests (optional)
This was raised a year ago in this forum post but not implemented.
Another workaround is the plugin, “Advanced New File”. It seems to have this functionality.
(I think this FR got auto-closed because someone marked it as solution. I’ve reopened it. But I recommend exploring the workarounds, since this doesn’t have much popularity.)
Would be very convenient to rename notes like this - with slashes being allowed, but each slash-separated part being interpreted as a folder and subfolders and the last part being the file name, the way it works in Visual Studio Code:
