Sometimes you get lost in your Obsidian vault. Maybe you surf through your web of knowledge and then you get distracted with something (maybe an errand). When you return focus to your vault, you’re on a note that you have no recollection being on. You look to the File Explorer and you can find it ri…

I think I like this idea, but I’m not sure I totally follow. Where would you put this indicator? How does it work?

Agreed. I just encountered a few times today creating new notes dynamically (using inline [[]] and then clicking) and took awhile to find where they are located. A breadcrumb of the folder location (as an option) would seem useful.

I would like a button to expand the tree and focus (and highlight somehow) the file in the tree would be great. I would even more like the tree to follow the file I am in. So when I follow a link to a different file it’s location in the tree is automatically expanded, focused and highlighted… but th…

There is a similar thread here: Show the full path to the note in the title. [image] Allow show folder path in title Feature archive For disambiguation purposes allow showing folder path (from the root of the vault) in the title when editing

How would a note location help in this use case? Not disagreeing; it’s just not clear.

If you are trying to find a note in the File Explorer pane, to move it in to it’s proper folder. If you need to see where the note is, to go edit the file on the filesystem for any reason.

[image] ryanjamurphy: How would a note location help in this use case? Not disagreeing; it’s just not clear. I think this is particularly a solution that would help if you have folders and sub-folders, but if its flat and everything is in the same section, you can simply scroll for it.

[image] ryanjamurphy: I think I like this idea, but I’m not sure I totally follow. Where would you put this indicator? How does it work? [image] I think the bottom, right next to the “backlinks”, “words”, “characters” indicators would be a cool choice. I think its simple enough and there se…

[image] johw: the tree and focus (and highlight somehow) the file in the tree would be great. I would even more like the tree to follow the file I am in. So when I follow a link to a different file it’s location in the tree is automatically expanded, focused and highlighted… but that is just me …

My answer was lost when the topics are joined; Good alternative is VSC like approach The breadcrumb is displayed under the file name [image]

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