I would love to see a side panel option that displayed my (currently being edited) document in a outline view, like DevonThink can, or Drafts, or MultiMarkdown Composer. I end up making a note with a few different sections, and often want to hop between those sections rather than make 6 separate notes. Having the note outline visible would be really helpful.
Here’s a screenshot of the way DevonThink displays this:
Being able to click on a section and skip to it would be great; eventually allowing reordering by dragging the sections is nice.
Not sure what the behavior should be if multiple windows are open and none have active cursor, but maybe it just holds last viewed note until a new one enters edit mode.
No, I haven’t…I thought it was more of a plug-in idea since it’s not something widely incorporated into text editors, but if I should post it there as well I am happy to do so. Was definitely wishing for it this week as I did some ‘real work’ in Obsidian!
Typora offers the possibility (with a css), as a “togglable” option, to have all headers and subheaders listed in a TOC in a sidepane. That way, when one has a long document, one always has the TOC on the side and click to a relevant header when navigating.
With some css it is even possible to have the (sub)headers numbered.
I’ve definitely seen this one mentioned a lot in various places, especially back when we were doing suggestions on the discord…if it doesn’t get added now, I hope someone will make it as a plugin once plugins are possible. It’s really excellent for navigating longer notes.
@Saros before submitting this proposal I searched to see if there wasn’t a similar one already because, like you, I also thought to have seen it. But I did not find it. I hope one of the moderators will find the other TOC proposals and bundle them into one, and hope that it will get some love. I am dying to transfer my non-Obs markdown notes into Obs, but this is stopping me. I have a collection with some very long notes, so a TOC is absolutely essential for that.
Having said that, I really appreciate Obs and think it will turn out to be a winner in the the not too distant future.
I think this can be merged with this topic Note outliner, can it?
I think building on this, what is needed is a way to quickly rearrange sections like typical outliners have. Say, in order to rearrange topics in an outline for an essay.
Microsoft Word can do this, RoamResearch and Dynalist do, of course, but also org-roam with plain text-based documents.
