"Open today's daily note" opens additional tab instead of switching to already existing

[spikepy]

1. create a daily note and keep its tap open
2. create another node and pin it (keep it also focused)
3. if you “Open today’s daily note” it will create another tab with your daily note instead of switching to the already open

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i also think this is linked and should behave differently

1. like before create a daily note and keep it open
2. create another node (keep it focused)
3. if you “Open today’s daily note” it will “overwrite”/change the current tab with the note with your daily note instead of switching to the already open tab. this feels wrong but maybe we need another option to say that we want to switch to already open tabs instead of changing the current tab to that file?

[rigmarole]

Hi welcome to the forum. Please search around before making new bug reports of feature requests. You’ll find existing threads or workarounds.

“No Dupe Leaves” is a plugin which tries to help with this. And there are existing feature requests to handle this.

IDE style navigation (tab reuse on link opening, tab management, switch to already open note)

MOD-EDIT: This is a reorganized FR Currently, Obsidian uses a Browser-style navigation system. You click on link, it opens it in that tab. An alternative approach is to follow IDEs (Integrated develop environment/Code Editors). IDEs generally don’t navigate within a tab. You click on a link and it either: Moves the focus to a tab where the target was already opened or A new tab with the target is opened. IDEs navigate in the current tab only if the target of the link is in current tab …

If a note is open in a pinned tab, focus that Pinned tab when clicking a link to that note

Found a similar thread: Viewing an already-pinned note when clicking a link to it - #4 by alltagsverstand

Command to close duplicate tabs

I usually end up with a bunch of tabs open in Obsidian, with some of them just being duplicate views of the same tab. I suggest that having a command to quickly close all duplicate tabs (leaving only one tab per open note) would be a nice improvement. Related: IDE style navigation (tab reuse on link opening, tab management)

Automatically navigate to file location in explorer when note is opened

Hi, I would love to have a way to have the explorer focus and center the location of the note, when I switch to a note using the quick switcher (Shift + o).

[rruusu]

This applies much more widely to the logic of the tab pinning feature.

Currently observed behavior when opening a new file that is already shown in a tab:

• When the newly opened file is already open in a pinned tab: The file is reopened in another unpinned tab. (Bad)
• When the currently active tab is not pinned: An unpinned tab already showing that file is activated. (Good)
• When the currently active tab is pinned: The newly opened file is opened into a new tab, even if already present in another. (Bad)

It doesn’t make sense that what happens to a newly opened document depends on the pinning status of the currently active tab, as the opening can occur outside of the context of the active tab, and the user is not necessarily even aware of its status.

It also doesn’t make sense that an unpinned existing tab is activated, but a pinned existing tab isn’t, as the user most likely has pinned that file especially to always keep it visible specifically in that particular tab, and this can be easily overridden using the ctrl/command keys.

Suggested behavior: When opening an exiting file via any command or UI, the default should be to first activate any existing tab already showing the file, regardless of its pinning status. If an existing tab for the file is not already present, decide on replacing the active tab or creating a new one based on the pinning status of the active tab. This is the behavior that I think almost all users would expect from the pinning feature.