I also would like a way of dealing with outlines inside the core app! However I found that the developer (Erica) did say that they do not want to do that. A quote from Erica:
Once we reach 1.0 and people can write plugins, there might be developers who make Obsidian into a functional outliner by adding metadata to your plain text, but that’s not something we want to do in the core app.
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I found a few similar topics about people wanting outliner functionality:
- Bullet list everything
- Dynalist-style list navigation
- Dynalist vs Obsidian - #2 by joegrundy
- Bullet list manipulation: add custom hotkeys for indent in/out (outliner-like)
Let’s hope someone will develop an outliner plugin for Obsidian.