Remember navigation history when closing Obsidian or switching workspace layouts

Feature requests
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Navigation history is lost upon closing Obsidian or switching workspace layouts

I’ve been using Obsidian almost daily for over a year now, and saved workspace layouts is one of my favorite features, both the passive feature of preserving / restoring the active workspace layout upon closing/reopening Obsidian as well as the managed feature of saving / loading workspace layouts. However, one property that is currently not included (i.e., not preserved or saved) as part of workspace layouts is the navigation history for each tab.

When editing a note, I will often think of something relevant to another note, so I will navigate to that other note and edit it as well. Then from that note, I may think of something relevant to yet another note and edit that one, too. And so on. Then I may navigate back and forth between all those notes.

Navigation history is really helpful for recalling a train of thought between ideas / notes, but that history is lost upon closing Obsidian or upon switching workspace layouts.

Proposed solution

Request: Include navigation history for each tab as a property of workspace layouts

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Forgot to mention: Chrome browser is an example of an existing app that has implemented this feature of preserving navigation history for each tab

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The Pane Relief plugin already does this in the desktop app, but unfortunately it doesn’t support the mobile app.

It would be great to see Obsidian include this by default in every version of the app. It’s an essential feature imo.

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I’d especially appreciate this on mobile, where app reloads forced by the OS are common. It’s annoying to open the app and find the path back has disappeared.

I changed the thread title to focus on the desired behavior instead of the underlying implementation (was “Include navigation history for each tab as a property of workspace layouts”).

Related requests (asking for Obsidian to remember other things): Search results for 'Remember #feature-requests' - Obsidian Forum.

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There’s an older feature request of this same thing, but with less hearts. :thinking:

Keep navigation history between sessions - Feature requests - Obsidian Forum

Also,
Restore navigation history when loading workspace - Feature requests - Obsidian Forum

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Thanks. I’ll merge those both into this thread.

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I find the Workspaces core plugin quite useful. It would be great if the back/forward navigation history is restored after switching to a different workspace.

Use case or problem

After switching to a different workspace, the navigation history of back and forward is cleared. Going back or forward to notes I worked on earlier on the workspace isn’t possible.

Proposed solution

If Obsidian could store the 5 most recent files for each panel when we save the workspace, then jumping back into that workspace at a later point goes more smooth.

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I go back and forth a lot. But when I close Obsidian all past history is lost.

It would be great if Obsidian could retain history across sessions.

Thanks!

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What version are you on? This was implemented in 0.13.16

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-13-16-insider-build/29215

There is also the File Recovery core plugin, if that’s what you meant by “history”.

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I didn’t mean Undo. I meant navigation history. I would like the go back and go forth buttons to still retain their stack even after exiting and opening Obsidian again. I updated the post title to specify this: navigation.

I am currently running v0.13.24 and it doesn’t seem to work. And I also don’t find any option related to this.

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It is also important for me, But the feature have not implemented in the newest version

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Yes a good feature to have