Hi, potential Obsidian user here.
I have been researching tools for an upcoming task, and the best contenders are Obsidian and the Leo-editor. The situation:
A Treesheets file with a huge number of nested fields needs more capabilies than Treesheets can offer. Now a tool is needed that can:
- Import in one of these ways (better ideas welcome!):
- from Treeshets format
- from one of its export formats
(xml, html, there are others that appear not useable here) - from a file tree with plain text notes
where the file names are numbered (to keep the Treesheets order) plus the first x characters of the text (to identify them in an outline (see below)), and the folder names ditto, taking text from the first note.
I could create this file tree from exported xml with a script.
- Have an outline to reorder sequence and level of the text file (or note, I gather it is called in Obsidian?). Once imported, the numbering of the file/folder names can go.
- Have arbitrary notes collapsed or open, at various depth levels, at the same time, to edit.
- Create collections of links to notes under a separate outline.
They should appear there in the same way as in the file tree outline, similar to hard links. - If possible (not mandatory), allow separate windows for folder tree outline and linked note outline, to work on multiple monitors.
The top level in TS holds >100 columns that would be the top level in the outline; scrolling up and down all the time to jump between collection and original would soon lose its fun.
edit: The TS file has about 1.1k fields, about half of them filled. Would that slow down Obsidian too much?
Can Obsidian do this? With plug-ins maybe?
Thank you for helpful thoughts!