Please allow title bar and windows taskbar to begin with vault name

[Lise]

Use case or problem

In 2022 some users requested that the vault name appear first before “Obsidian v. #” in the title, so that we could quickly see which vault we were selecting when working with multiples. Presumably the vault name came first in the Windows task bar as well. Their wish was granted.

But now the vault name is in second position, after the open tab.

1. Tab name, 2. vault, 3. Obsidian 4. v#

The vault name doesn’t come first, which means it is still difficult to work with multiple vaults at the same time.

Proposed solution

Please put the vault name first in the title bar so that it may also be first in the taskbar. There are too many times I’ve added things in my Work vault that didn’t belong there.

Current workaround (optional)

None that are simple. I spent a lot of time trying to distinguish my vaults with snippets that used different colours that would display in the taskbar (that seems impossible) but different toolbar colors do appear in the taskbar hover preview. It stopped working a while ago, though and I never had to the time to investigate.

I then created different icon colors for each of my vault shortcuts, all for nothing because when the program is open it’s always the default purple icon that is displayed, so no difference between the vaults.

I would rather not use a different theme for each of my vaults just because the vault name doesn’t appear first in the windows title.

[Lise]

I’m sorry that I’m a power user and came from a competitor (Evernote) and have more notes than the average person because I’m GenX and was using the internet at Uni when most didn’t even have computers (so I have way more notes than most) … but I really need a way to distinguish between open vaults. Please consider adding the vault name first in Windows taskbar, or let it be an option.

[rigmarole]

(I haven’t tested this.) There is this plugin, “Custom Window Title”. And you can specify your own template including {{vault}} or {{workspace}}:

GitHub - jplattel/open-note-to-window-title: Small Obsidian plugin that updates the window...

[Lise]

Thanks so much for that link. It does exactly what I want.
Of course I hate relying on plug-ins, but I sure do appreciate the programmers out there who create them. Thank you to both the creator and the suggester!