Quick feature requests to improve Obsidian's UI/UX

Feature requests
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Just wanted to share some quick feature requests that I think would make the interface more intuitive/consistent:

  • Allow users to cmd-click the sidebar buttons (graph view, today’s note, random note) for opening them in a new tab. This would make the interface consistent with the cmd-click functionality for the search sidebar.
  • Add a filter search box to the plugins page in the settings menu, similar to the one available on the hotkeys and community themes pages.
  • Consistency in “today’s note” vs. “daily notes.” The plugin page refers to this feature as “daily notes,” but the sidebar button says “Open today’s note.” When I was searching for the hotkey for this feature, it is listed as “Open today’s note” as well, even though I expected it to be “daily note.” Very minor, but consistent naming of “daily” or “today” would be less confusing to users.

Also +1 to the suggestion for URL scheme functionality!

Absolutely loving Obsidian so far—thank you all for your amazing work on this!

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I’m not sure about that. Surely daily notes are the collection and Today’s note is the daily note for today?

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Ah, I didn’t think about it that way—but that’s a good point. Perhaps adding some combination of both words could help with discoverability? I just struggled to find the hotkey initially because I filtered for “daily” and it didn’t pop up. Was just trying to find some way to make that more intuitive.

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Anything that makes buttons and hot keys more obvious and intuitive would be an improvement.

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