Same here, I would love the same system as in VSCode. With the incoming WYSIWYG mode, that would be a perfect combination (the tabs pluging is a bit klunky and doesn’t really have the expected behavior)
Do we know if this is on the future todolist of the dev?
There are a couple of plugin for doing this.
@WhiteNoise: would be more useful to briefly describe the recommended plugin, and the differences among them; or at least link to them.
I’ve found these so far:
Do we have any updates on this? It would be really nice if Obsidian had this feature. The current plugin (Obsidian Tabs) doesn’t have the same behavior as tabs in, let’s say, Chrome of Firefox, which is what I would expect. I’m sure I’m not the only one! Would be amazing to see this in a future update.
I agree. I really want this feature. 
The standard to follow would be vim tabs+windows or tmux windows+panes.
I have multiple “note contexts” I focus on. Being able to have a tab per-“context” would be wonderful.
I still cant believe we don’t have functional tabs yet in obsidian. I discussed in a post my ideal vision of tabs, genuinely cant wait to finally have tabs included eventually!
Obsidian is NOT a Web Browser, Word Processor or Database. What it IS is a PLAIN TEXT application that uses Markdown and works on multiple operating systems (Which are all different) like Windows, Linux (various flavors) MacOS, Android (Various flavors), iOS etc. It IS extensible but that is not the core of the application. The developers ARE Amazing.
And that do NOT exclude it from INSPIRING itself from OTHER applications which HAVE been iterated over FOR years to make navigation AS effective as possible. Suggesting such FEATURES also does not imply that the DEVs aren’t amazing, just THAT some accessibility features might be worthwhile for part of the community.
I’d like this feature as well. The Obsidian tabs plugin works, but I don’t like how it shifts the tabs around once you open a new file. The active tab is also placed down in a row of its own instead of just being side-by-side with the other tabs. It’s really confusing
Tabs would be amazing. Please… It would make a world of difference.
On July 14 on the Obsidian roadmap, a card for Tabs was created. This is currently the only item in Working on. As a side note, also on that day there were cards for a Corkboard/Whiteboard plugin and a Refreshed default theme by @kepano added to Short-term. These are exciting times!
It would be extremely convenient to be able to open panes in tabs, and switch between the tabs using hotkeys, like you can in the browsers or in VSCode.
I know that there are a couple of community plugins for that (Obsidian Tabs and Cycle through Panes), but their behavior is a bit inconvenient and pretty counterintuitive.
VSCode also has “Open Editors” panel - a sidebar widget that contains a list of all the open files (for cases when the open tabs can’t fit on the screen). It is also extremely useful.
I really wish this functionality was the part of the core Obsidian app, it would make everything so much more convenient!
I would also really appreciate this feature! I would also embrace sidebar tabs, possibly as an “Open notes” space in the sidebar. The Arc web browser also has a good implementation of sidebar tabs that accommodate “split” views of different webpages at once.
Obsidian is NOT a Web Browser, Word Processor or Database. What it IS is a PLAIN TEXT application that uses Markdown and works on multiple operating systems (Which are all different) like Windows, Linux (various flavors) MacOS, Android (Various flavors), iOS etc
You mean… Like Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Atom, Em Editor, UltraEdit, Notepad ++, Zettlr, FocusWriter, Kate Editor, Geany, Gedit, CudaText…
Tabs exist in all of this softwares because they are convenient and they proved it.
The developers ARE Amazing.
Yes, but off-topic here. Every software can be improved.
Don’t think most of these work on Android or iOS
No, but all the OSs were listed including mobile and the many programs you listed don’t have mobile versions, so they weren’t equivalent.
Yes, some mobile markdown editors do have tabs (with no need for a burger). But then they don’t have desktop versions.
Obsidian’s approach to mobile has been maximalist rather than the typical minimalist and I’d expect that they’d want tabs to be on mobile when they’re added to desktop.
As much fun as it may be to tell the numerous users who have posted in this thread (or liked the feature request) that their needs are invalid, I fear that this discussion is a little bit pointless:
According to the Obsidian Roadmap, tabs are currently being worked on, so the feature will likely be released in the not-too-distant future.
I for one am extremely exited about this, because the only 3rd-party tab plugin that worked ok for me is the Sliding Panes plugin, but even that started to have issues with recent versions of Obsidian. Plus, a basic feature such as tabs or separate note windows should really be part of the core app and not be bolted-on using a 3rd-party plugin. That way, it’s also much easier to optimize for things like memory usage.
Good day,
You recently added a Tabs task to your roadmap (in the Working on column).
I don’t know how you will implement this functionality, but I want to offer my version.
My version
I have 946 notes in my knowledge base and there are times when I simultaneously work on/open many notes.
Often these notes are related to different topics and I would like to group them under different tabs so that everything is not mixed up on one screen.
Like this:
That is, these tabs are like separate planes between which it is convenient to switch to different open groups of notes. These tabs will allow you to efficiently work with many notes simultaneously, taking Obsidian to a new level.
Now Obsidian can offer:
I hope my idea will inspire you and please don’t create another Obsidian Tabs plugin.
Yes, your workflow is exactly like mine. Not just for notes… but also when I’m editing code with nvim in large repos.
I’m hoping Obsidian’s implementation follows this model.
