Sequential Notes

[Dor]

This is to suggest the possibility of sequential notes and a shortcut for a new note to follow in sequence.

The use is for writing a longer piece in a number of sections. For instance, sections of a chapter or even chapters themselves. Or separate sections or subsections in an essay, report or thesis.

The new note would be auto-named with the original title plus a number.
The display of the sequence to be optionally toggled between viewing sections separately or run together as if theywere a single document.
With an option to change the order of the sections and have the titles automatically updated to reflect the new sequence.

This is a way many writers programs work.

It would facilitate paragraph based links, where the author sees a need for a longer document to be seen as a whole.

[ryanjamurphy]

Related, I think, is @Luhmann’s…

Document Spanning

A plugin that would emulate what apps like Ulysses or Scrivener can do, by chaining together multiple documents. This might be done by naming the documents sequentially depending on the order they appear in the file browser. If multiple documents are selected they would appear as one document in the editor - with section/page break lines where the documents split. Reordering documents in the browser would automatically rename them. It would also work with documents in folders, so one could essen…

Though I think both of these are better suited as plugins than core Obsidian features.

[Dor]

@ryanjamurphy

Though I think both of these are better suited as plugins than core Obsidian features.

If you want a keyboard shortcut to create the next note as part of the sequence, I think that needs to be core surely?

[rsdimitrov]

Not exactly. Plug-ins register keyboard shortcuts with Obsidian. See for example the Graph View or the Random Note plug-in. If they are off, there is no hotkey option for them in the Settings.