Outliner for the folders/files structure?

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I am trying to find a way to create an outline note that shows a tree outline of my current folders/files. That would be a meta-file explorer that maintains a live TOC of files and would support:

  1. moving entries around the TOC, into different folders and up/down within the same folder.
  2. using a meaningful alias for each entry (Citations can generate less useful filenames from Zotero)
  3. allowing collapsing/expanding branches
  4. dynamically updating when files are added/deleted
  5. emulating File Explorer when you click on/preview/delete a note

I know many people prefer flattened vaults and links/tags, but in my workflow tree structuring+links/tags is essential. So far, I have experimented with aliases, Outliner, File Tree Alternative, Bartender, Citations. I considered Dataview but it looks complicated for this.

How would you do this?

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I should have added that Markdown Title Sidecar and variants would do much of this but they are not on the official repository, and this approach is less future-proof in that without Obsidian and the plugin you lose your outline.

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Zoottelkeeper does some of what you want (maybe not enough) and is in the official repository.

(Why is this whole thread bold? D: )

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