Resolve accidentally clicking on the indexing message leaving you stranded without any indexing progress information

Use case or problem

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When your vault is indexing, a pop-up in the top-right corner appears that continually updates showing the progress of that indexing.

If you click on the pop-up, it self-destructs. Oops! That’s not exactly something the user expects. The user didn’t click on any kind of X button, they just clicked on the message.

Maybe you expected some more information, or wanted to figure out what was going on. Instead, the moment this happens, you are left alone, stranded in the Obsidian wilderness, unable to perform common tasks such as renaming files or viewing a note’s back-links, and there is no way to view how long things will take until things go back to normal again.

Proposed solution

A simple solution could be to just not allow the message to disappear, so clicking on the message does nothing (if you still want this ability for the user to be stranded, add an X button?)

I would suggest that clicking on the indexing message actually takes you to some information, either in the settings or to a link where you can find out more information about what is happening.

Another solution is to duplicate this indexing updating progress in settings somewhere, or in the console, so the user can still see what’s going on without having that message there.

Another solution is to add a “Show Progress” button in Settings that simply re-enables the notification if this gets removed somehow.

Current workaround (optional)

Reload Obsidian? This would restart the indexing process though, so you would end up losing all of your progress.