Undo for Obsidian Functions Itself (Not Note Editing)

Feature requests
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A feature that I find myself frequently missing is the ability to undo something other than text edits.

Some Quick Examples:

  • Rearranging panes (woops want it back the way it was)
  • Closing a file (woops didn’t mean to do that)

The ability to, with a single key press, return Obsidian to the exact state it was in immediately prior to whatever you just did.

If implemented, it would probably be ideal to keep the text editing undo history separate from the software itself; Obsidian’s undo would be a different hotkey.

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Related feature requests:

some requests for undo dedicated to specific type of action:

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Use case or problem

I accidentally closed my carefully arranged panes. I want them back!

Proposed solution

Add closing of panes to the Command-Z undo stack

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But it’s counter intuitive - it doesn’t work that way anywhere else

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Related features / requests:

Here is request for more common method to be voted for:

Then the hotkey could be customized and customized to your needs by some plugin.

Another thing that might help is to backup your workspace sometimes by:
Obsidian → Settings → Core plugins → Workspaces
Then in command palette, type “workspace”.

Plugin “Workspaces” is documented in Workspaces

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Just a note to this topic too: Obsidian 0.12.16 now has this feature: the default hotkey is Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + T. The command can be found from the command palette by name Undo close pane.