Disclaimer
Is this plugin open source? Yes
Is this plugin completely free? Yes
Is this plugin vibe-coded beyond the author’s ability to comprehend how it works? No
Community Directory: alias-quick-switcher
You gave a note an alias so you could find it by the name you actually use, and you gave its folder one too. Obsidian’s quick switcher ignores both as soon as you type a path. It matches your query against the path or an alias, never a mix of the two.
This plugin matches segment by segment, and each segment can be a real name or an alias: the note’s own, or the one on a folder’s folder note.
Take Alpha/Bravo/Charlie.md, where Charlie has the alias Echo and the Bravo folder note has the alias Delta:
| Query | Built-in | This plugin |
|---|---|---|
Alpha/Bravo/Charlie |
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Echo |
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Alpha/Bravo/Echo |
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Alpha/Delta/Charlie |
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Alpha/Delta/Echo |
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- Folder aliases. A folder has no frontmatter, so its alias lives on its folder note, and no other switcher reads it. It uses your existing
Folder notesconfiguration. - Each row shows why it matched. It shows what you typed, with the real path underneath and the same alias marker the built-in switcher uses.
- Real names outrank aliases by default, so the matches you already get stay in the same order.
- Titles too. With the Titles module of
Advanced Metadata Cache, atitleproperty also works as a name. - It doesn’t touch the built-in switcher. Give Alias Quick Switcher: Open quick switcher its own hotkey.
