an option to select / deselect what file types are shown in file explorer would be useful not everything that is in a folder needs to be shown - e.g. pictures that are referenced in md-files, intentionally exclude pdfs, etc. the limitation to / exclusion of file types then must be indicated some…

Ditto here. The best I’ve found is setting up the folder where to automatically put attachments. Settings → Files & Links → Attachment folder path It is annoying that every time you drag an attachment in (image, pdf, etc) the attachment folder opens to show that the file is there, but it’s better …

Use case or problem I don’t use assets folders. Instead I rename all assets the same name as the file ending with a number, and put them in the same folder. If I need to move a file outside Obsidian I instantly know which other files to grab. In Windows explorer I have a batch file that auto hides …

Implementing something like this would be great and I think grow to a large software engineer community Use Case Markdown files within a code base that have ReadMe.md in subfolders or projects. I have tried this currently with Obsidian with my Home Lab and personal projects folder but it slows Ob…

I was going to suggest exactly that: some way to ignore/hide folders/files using a gitignore-like syntax.

I know this is old, but I just spent several hours browsing the forum because I was too dense to find both of these features in settings. I don’t how long they’ve been there, but they work exactly as expected on v. 0.14.6. Wow…what devs–what a product!

So there is a way to do this now? I cannot find it in the settings… Can you advice where to find it? Thanks!

The solution is you make a custom css file to config which kind of file should appear. div[data-path$='.png']{ display: none; } You can read more in this question [image] How to hide the image section in the Obsidian tree directory section Help In the Obsidian settings …

I tweaked the above css to establish the following: Paste Screenshots to a Page in a folder. The Screenshot File is stored in the root of the vault with Filename like “Pasted image 20221114171851.png” Mark the Screenshot File in grey as a candidate for manual move. Move this image file manually to…

Same here. I tried to hide all word documents and PDFs (backups after migrating from onenote). I just added the following in my main.css file and turned that on in preferences > appearance: div[data-path$="docx"], div[data-path$="docx"] + div.nav-folder-children { display: none; } div[data-path$…

I found this post because I want to show .txt files in Obsidian. I sometimes have notes with special characters in the contents such as “[”. I don’t want to escape them with \ because I copy/paste the contents. I just don’t want Markdown enabled for the file so that it displays nicely. I found deat…

Show / hide which file types to be shown in file explorer

Feature requests

Nocturnal February 13, 2026, 6:34pm 41

Precisely looking for these features.

Ignore files in Files view

How to hide some files (for example by extension or filename)?