Quick Switcher: deemphasize path to match aliases and link suggestions, or hide it

Feature requests
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I use a folder structure that is a few levels deep, because I use PARA. When I search a file I get a suggestion like;

200 AREAS/280 Hobbies/281 Art and Drawing/The Note

This is hard to read, because the interesting stuff happens on the right, and I am not really interested in the path when I want to open a note. It serves its purpose for me to compartementalize my areas, and keep my notes organized.

Could there be an option (or maybe there is but I have not found it) to exclude the path from the quick switcher? I can imagine when there are two files with the same name, it is relevant to see the difference, but in most cases Obsidian tries to encourage you to make unique note names.

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+1 from me; I face exactly the same situation and would love the solution @Jorg404 asked for.

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until that gets implemented / in case it does not get implemented, you can sue the “Another Quick Switcher” Plugin, which basically does that

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Would love to see this feature too. Would be very helpful.

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Let me also mention another community plugin Quick Switcher++, which has this setting.

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I renamed the request to include potentially deemphasizing the path instead of just hiding it (was: “Toggle show full path in Quick Switcher”).

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Use case or problem

There currently no way to hide paths, inside the quick switcher.
And if you use deep folder nesting or folders with long names, it can look quite annoying.

Quite ironically, it is already fixed for aliases, as when searching for alias path displayed under it in a subtle manner. (It is not really the path, and the fix is accidental, but anyway)

What annoying is that you cannot simply give all your files an alias equivalent to the note name to fix that, as that would make files appear twice in the search.

Proposed solution

Add an option to make all notes display their title in the same way aliases do.
Add an ability to hide paths and only display the note title.

Current workaround (optional)

Currently it is possible to kind of avoid that by naming your files in strange ways, but it is not a good solution, as it kinda loses the point of making it look pretty.

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Using the alias-style display for everything would be more consistent, because link suggestions are already formatted that way. It’s much nicer! The full path interferes with scannability.

Here is Quick Switcher with a harder to read full path and an easier to read alias:

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Here is the link suggester showing both the actual note and its aliases formatted the more readable way:

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(Unrelated to this request: I typed different searches in each pic because Quick Switcher and the link suggester seem to be using different fuzzy search algorithms; lavv produced no matches in the link suggester.)

I changed the title again, to highlight the inconsistency of the current use of paths of non-aliases in Quick Switcher with the usage in most (all?) other places in Obsidian. (Was “Quick Switcher: Hide or deemphasize path”.)

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I tried to solicit a CSS snippet as a workaround, but unfortunately that’s not possible with the way the full-path Quick Switcher results are structured. Discord