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Community Directory: Smart Explorer
Hi everyone, I built Smart Explorer, an open-source Obsidian community plugin for browsing and organizing files from a side pane.
The specific workflow I wanted to improve is manual file ordering. In project folders, alphabetical order is often not the order I actually work in. I usually want a human priority order: overview first, then brief, research notes, checklists, and drafts.
Smart Explorer focuses on that kind of project file browsing:
- Browse vault files in a side pane.
- Filter files without leaving the current note workspace.
- Preview files from the explorer.
- Sort by common file properties.
- Manually reorder files for project-specific priority.
Demo:
GitHub repository:
I would appreciate feedback from people with large project vaults or workflows where manual file order matters. I am especially interested in whether the manual sorting behavior matches how people organize active project folders.