#11

I am a newbe and still trying to find my way around. So I am not exactly sure what you mean by a “volume.” When I first read it I immediately thought of “vaults.”

I would Love to see tabs that would each contain a vault. I understand the separation of vaults but wish they could “cross-polinate.” It would be especially nice to connect notes together from different vaults. But when I think of vaults as individual data bases I understand more.

#12

I am a big fan of the new changes in the sidebar. I think it has a lot of potential and will make a significant impact on productivity, esp. the tabs.

If this feature gains traction among users, then how about enabling tabs in the main area of Obsidian (in the panes) similar to what is now available in the sidebar? I think the design should follow what is now common in most browsers. Control+tab shortcuts to navigate, the ability to close all or close everything to the right, duplicate tab. Hovering over tab should show the name of the. Chrome recently implemented the feature to group tabs.

Maybe eventually the ability to open notes within a folder as tabs. Or multi select notes from the File Explorer to open them as tabs. Conversely, if you can have the option to create or move to a folder for tabs that are open.

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#13

Wanted to suggest that, too. A tab system like in browsers, sublime, vscode would increase efficiency and allow to keep most frequent notes open constantly.

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#14

Basically, this is a request to make tab functionality available on any pane, not just panes which are in the left sidebar (which is awesome by the way).

I like to switch rapidly between “clusters” of related notes on particular tabs (for example, one tab for reading notes, another tab for permanent notes I’m generating based off those reading notes).

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#15

I think it would be better if we can open multiple tabs in every pane. (just like VScode)

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#16

+1
Currently we can have several Note Windows open within Obsidian. Just to be clear, each window pane should allow Tabs. We don’t want to end up exactly like a browser which typically can only show one tab at a time in the window. Having multiple Note Windows visible at once is essential! And each one of those Panes can quickly switch between its own set of tabs.

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#17

Would like to bump this feature request. An ability to have split panes, with tabs in each pane is a definite improvement to any workflow! Coming from a code editor perspective with split views e.g. VS Code, Sublime Text, Atom, etc. Definitely what I’m looking for :+1:

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#18

Please I hope this feature gets implemented soon! I often end up having multiple notes open at the same time and have another one for note taking when doing research. Overtime it gets very cramped so a browser-like tabs for notes will tremendously make my note taking smoother. Thanks!

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#19

I started to use Obsidian and am a heavy VSCode user. In VSCode it is possible to split windows and in each window have multiple tabs.

A frustrating thing in Obsidian (much like Overleaf’s UI) is that when you select a node an open in, it will completely overwrite whatever was open/displayed in the current window fragment.

This is bad UI! Could the developers please make it, so that the split windows allow multiple tabs—or at the very least, if you really don’t want this as the default behaviour (not sure why anybody would not), then allow for a keyboard shortcut (e.g. alt click or something)?

The problem with your current setup is, that some users want to use only a few split windows (e.g. users with small laptop screens) and want to (1) keep severals simultaneously open … and (2) not have to create more split windows. The current setup prohibits this kind of workflow.

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#20

I think this is the most efficiency of split layout:

Left 1 , Right 4 square .

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If more than 6 , 7 pages, you even can’t edit any page. bcz they’re very small.

Althought currently doesn’t support multi-tabs, but 5 pages like that layout is quite enough and the most efficiency by my experience.

If support multi-tabs, you open 10 - 20 pages, the performance of software is the problem.

So keep simple, 5 page like that layout is quite enough.

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#21

If you have too many tabs opened there will not be enough space to list them all in one screen.

I suggest vertical tab list as option, exmaple would be

And I suggest split the note list area into 2 panes in horizon, the upper list notes, and the lower pane list open tabs.

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#22

Another vote here for VS Code style behavior where you have both the flexibility of having multiple panes, but each pane can have tabs.

In terms of the UI, I would suggest that opening a note via the fodler list or quick-pick would replace the note in the current pane, whereas holding CTRL would open it as a tab in the current pane (with an option in preferences to switch that around according to personal preference).

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#23

Just want to add that VScode-style tabs are also fantastic for “large print” users (where the amount of text we can have on the screen at once is limited). I can’t have more than 2 (maybe 3) panes open at readable zoom levels before I trigger a migrane from squinting at it.

Tabs would make my life much less painful. :slight_smile:

#24

A possible simple solution that would resemble the “sideways tabs” items linked by @coldwinds is a plugin (perhaps a core plugin) that replicates the “open editors” functionality in VSCode.

Basically, when you open VSCode the sidebar not only contains the file browser but above it is a separate section/pane that contains a clickable list of open files.

Note also that some capabilities users want may also be obtainable by combining:

  • Workspaces (core plugin) - save and load various pane layouts & doc locations
  • Cycle through panes (community plugin) - provides Ctrl+Tab for switching between docs just like browser tabs
  • Andy Mode (community plugin) - toggle on the rotated headers and let panes slide in and out as you cycle through them
#25

I hope this will support “ctrl + tab” and “ctrl + shift + tab” to navigate like in browsers

#26

That would be great!!!

#27

Agreed. This is how I use VimWiki. I really miss this ability in Obsidian.

#28

Need to chime in against all the love in this thread for how VS Code does panes/tabs :pensive: . I love VS Code, but I really don’t see the point of having multiple tabs within a pane. I use tabs in VimWiki for handling different types of pane sets (a tab for each project, with panes for different aspects of the project). Maybe there’s something I’m misunderstanding about how people use panes in VS Code.

#29

+1 for tabs with VSCode style. That would be super great :slight_smile:

#30

Chiming in here for this; I’ve found an Obsidian Tabs extension but it seems to assume that you want only one pane, whereas I miss the vscode/[[foam]] like setup in which each pane might have its own tab set.

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