While it is most obvious for the developer, it is really not clear what all the buttons without captions do. Hovering a cursor over one doe not display a hint label, like all native buttons in Obsidian do. This prevent me from experimenting — what happens if I press the X mark to the left of the folder? Does it delete the folder or removes it from the list, or does it do something else entirely? I don’t know.

When I right-click on a folder and select "new folder," nothing happens.
Obsidian v0.13.19

So I posted a plugin idea in the forum which is basically from wanting a separate pane to view just one main folder and its subfolders. Like a zoom for folders

I think this could be done using your plugin if I choose in the options to exclude all other folders apart from the one I want to focus on but having to exclude each manually is quiet tedious. And if I want to focus on another main folder I'd have to exclude the current one then revoke the new one's exclusion.

Could there be an option to input a specific folder path instead? so only that folder will be seen in the plugin pane. (and possibly an easier option to switch focused folder)

I hope I explained it well and you could consider! I'm not really knowledgeable in tech stuff :< but I do find your plugin very helpful!

Quiver (https://happenapps.com/) or Joplin have a two-level navigation. On one pane you chose the folder and on another pane you see all the notes.

I would like that much more, than the current version where you use just one pane and you always need to click the back button to switch folders.

I think this plugin causes a slight periodic lag in typing. This disappears when I disable the plugin.

Normally, number are arranged by number, as : 1/2/3....n.
But, in the plugin, there are like text, and arranged by 1/10/11/12 - 2/20/21....


I use number to class my file, so it's a problem for me to have that. Maybe add a classification option?

As described in the title, it would be great to support this, as this helps organize/move files more efficiently.

Files in the root folder are not included in the file list nor are they included in search results, even if the "all:" syntax is used.

Maybe there could be a setting or toolbar button to toggle this?

For the moment, when clicked on a folder, it always "just" open it. But, it will be good to have the note opened if we use folder note (+ Open the folder).

The folder note always have the same name of the folder, if it can help.

I can't figure out why, but it happens too often and its weird
Links for other folders appear where you don't expect them

This is one example, as you can see in the image with the debug console, the "REIT" folder link appears there

The actual folder of "REIT" exists, like 50-60px below.
So it seems like in this case it got shifted up for some reason

Hello,
first these is a cool project of you :)
i would like to request and option to toogle that the files get shown in the tree view instead of the second area and with that the disabling of the second area :)

Hope you can do these

Greetings

Hello @ozntel! Thank you for this great plugin. But when I started using it, I was hoping that the folder tree and the file list would be displayed in the sidebar separately, one above the other, rather than splitting the same display area.
Did I miss something? Is there any setting now for displaying folders and files in different display areas? If not, would you consider implementing such a feature in the next releases of your awesome plugin?

When I try to make a copy of the existing document with right-click on it I don't have an option to make a copy. If I disable Plugin, option is back.

Could there be an option added to collapse/expand all the folders at once? It could be a right-click menu option so that only that folder you rightclicked and its subfolders will be affected by the action?

It could be like this:

• Expand all folders
• Collapse all folders
• Expand all subfolders
• Collapse all subfolders

Is it doable that the plugin allows us to customize the sorting of files ? I heard some people request this.

Hello

Would it be possible to have an option to sort by different criteria?
At the moment, files are sorted by name. It would be very useful to be able to sort by "last changed", so that files that have been recently changed would be at the top of the list.

As far as I can see in the source, that should be quite easy to implement by changing name to something else:

Thank you for your hard work :)

Hi,

I'm finding this really useful on iPad and iPhone: thank you!

I wanted to add a Left Sidebar icon to open the File Tree pane... I found the "Open File Tree Leaf" command - and added a button to invoke it using the Customizable Sidebar plugin.

But when I execute it, nothing visible happens.

I thought it might either load move open the File Tree view, or even do that and also jump to the open/active file. (Both of which would be useful - as independent commands)

Neither of those happens for me.

What should it do? Many thanks.

Hi and thx for this great plugin

is it possible to ask for even limited keyboard support like the up/down keys to move forward and backwards in the file list?

best

Z

If I understand this plugin correctly, files from all subfolders will be shown along with the files of the currently active folder if you're in the file view. Is there a way to only show the files of the currently active folder? For example, I have a few files in the root folder, but can never seem to find those because I see every file from everywhere. Is there a setting/toggle for this that I overlooked?

Hi,

Will it be possible to make the Navigation bar static and be there even if I scroll down in the folder which has lots of notes.
Its really cumbersome when there are lots of notes in an folder and I have to scroll back to top to go back.

Thanks
Rahul

Some filtering options would be great. For instance:

• filter out based on filename and regex
• filter out directories based on name
• allow user inputted maximum depth when displaying a certain dir and subdirs

The main motivation is that I put attachment in a /resources sub-dir in every one of my vault's directory, but I don't want the images showing up in the file tree

This would be so amazing.

[Similar to color tags for files in macos]

Trying to open with Open in System Explorer in the Folder's Context menu, produces no outcome.

I'm using the Red Graphite theme which is a light theme but the sidebar is dark.
The fonts color used by Folder Tree is also dark so none of the folder names a re visible

First, amazing plugin. So nicely done!

I don’t have many folders and would prefer to see more files listed. My request is to make the height of the sections in the view adjustable, so that I can display more files.

Of course drag and drop of the bar that separates the would be the nice, but even some value to set in settings, such a percentage of height, or lines to show in the explorer section, leaving the rest to be files.

Thanks!

Request: Add ability to drag a file to a note, like the built in file tree/explorer

Dragging a file into a note does nothing. It does not link/embed it like the normal built in file browser does.
This has got to be a user error..

As you can see in the attached image, long folder names wraps around on top of the filenames. Maybe a nice solution could be to cut off the long folder name (and it'd show the full folder name when you hover over it).

Hi!
Thanks for new Focus on Folder feature, its really cool.
Perhaps it would be more logical to limit the search to only the focused directory and its descendants, do you think?

I hope there is such functionality to sort order the files or folders on our own preferences. For example, I could put the file "test" between "Untitled 5" and "Untitled Kanban ."

A similar function in marginnote may be a prototype.

Sorry for the double issue but I also noticed that the files can no longer be seen in other plugins:

• Starred Files (Core plugin)
• Recent Files (Community plugin)

Great plugin, it is really useful.
Hoever I have a small problem.
Folders added into excluded folders via context menu doesn't appear in the section "Excluded folders" in settings,
and files contained in the excluded folders are still visible in the "preview" second window, when opening containing it folder

Below I exluded folder where I build pdf via Pandoc and TeX, all temporary files are still visible

This plugin looks really incredible and I can't wait to see your next update with it. I don't know if these changes will be made in your next release but I noticed that the title header is too light for light mode. I see that the class .oz-file-tree-header's color property is set to text-on-accent. I think setting it to text-normal would be better for both light and dark mode.

I came here to say thanks for this plugin, and please would you consider adding a button in the file listing, to directly turn off and on files in sub-folders...

It seems like there is space for a new button:

This would behave exactly the same as the setting "Include files from sub-folders to the file list" setting - but remove the need to break the flow to go in to the settings and back out again...

If you would be comfortable with having this but don't have time to do it, I would offer making this my first PR to a plugin, as I think lots of users would likely appreciate it.

It turns out I am echoing this comment from an earlier ticket:

Neat! That certainly helps! I wonder if it could be a quicker toggle than going all the way to the config? Hotkeyable, for example?

Originally posted by @Trinsec in #10 (comment)

Similarly to #39 I experience a slight lag every few seconds when typing. I had 71 plugins active and bisected it down to this one, disabling half of them each try.

Here's a screencast that shows it.

Thanks for the great plugin.

For example, maybe it could follow .gitignore syntax.

I find hovering / ctrl+hovering to popup a preview of a note pretty important to my work. When I have many panes open, I don't want to clutter my workspace unless it's the note I want. If you could implement this that would be great!

Apologies if this was already requested, I wasn't able to find an issue covering this topic.

There is Filter, Search, and New Note icons in the toolbar under the File View pane.

Currently, the Filter command only do one thing which is to show disable filtering. Can you more options to the Filter command such as:

• Show only markdown documents. (Show all .md files)
• Show any files that is no markdown documents. (Show all assets)
• Show audio only
• Show image only
• Show video only

Background

For the built in File Explorer, there is the command "Reveal active file in navigation" .

This is useful in situations where you have already opened a note, such as via "Quick Switcher", or "Recent Files", or following a link, or any other ways...

And then you want to see it in the Navigator, perhaps to open nearby files... There are many other reasons to do this.

The JetBrains IDEs call it "Select Open File" and it has a really convenient icon at the top of their Project view - which is their analog of the Navigator...

Request

For those who mainly use the File Tree - or switch often between Navigator and File Tree, depending on context, it would be really helpful to also have a command something like "Reveal active file in File Tree".

Suggested detail

This would do the following (in no particular order):

• Load the File Tree pane
• for the folder view:
  • Expand the folder view, to mark/select the folder containing the active file
  • Scroll the folder view, to ensure the selected folder is visible
• for the file list:
  • Mark/select the name of the active file
  • Scroll the file list, to ensure the selected file is visible

I think effectively it's saying:

Whatever the contents of the File Tree looks like if someone has browsed to a folder and opened a file - that's what it should look like if someone opened the active file via a different route, and then said "Reveal active file in File Tree".

For the icon: A target-like icon for the new command - similar to the JetBrains image above - would be familiar to many users of the JetBrains tools.

Hi Ozan, I installed the plug-in 2 days ago after Chetachi inadvertently drew my attention to it with a GIF she posted in the csschannel. I like this plug-in, find it a useful addition.

I use the search box regularly, and 1 thing I would like is to have a little cross to delete the search term easily, like in the main file explorer search box.

First of all, thanks for this great plugin!

Sometimes we work a lot between two folders. It would be awesome to be able to pin them, in the same way that you can pin notes.

If it's possible, as in the original file tree, add a way to add some specific CSS to a folder.
For example, in the original folder tree, I can add some icon with this css :

.nav-folder-title[data-path^="1. Archive"] .nav-folder-title-content::before
.nav-folder-title[data-path^="1. Archive/Fiches"] .nav-folder-title-content::before {

I can also change the icon for normal file, extern file with :

.nav-file-title[data-path*="10. Template/Templater"] .nav-file-title-content:only-child:before,
.search-result-collapse-indicator+span:before,
.nav-file-icon:before 

I do not see anything there, just files are not shown, only folders. This is strange.

I tried to assign different hotkeys to open file tree panel but it doesn't work.

Obsidian 0.12.15, mac os
File Tree Alternative 1.5.3

It's fine with out that button on desktop since I can ctrl click on the file but I can't do that on my iphone.

When I use a CSS theme in which editor pane has lighter background color and file navigation pane has darker color such as Red Graphite or Dark Graphite Pie (light mode), folder name is not visible. File name has no problem. The color of folder name seems to be determined by --text-normal.
Is there any way to use your plugin with such themes?

It’s incredibly difficult to aim at a divider line between sections to reposition it. It requires 1px precision, which is barely humane. Please make it more usable, somewhat like 5px.

Hi @ozntel
This is an awesome plugin!
Thank you.

One small thing I noticed, in settings you forgot to change description from Clear Unused Images plugin...

Hello @ozntel !

First of all, thank you very for this amazing plug-in. This is my first day using and I'm having a great time.

I saw the positive comments from the amazing @chetachiezikeuzor about this plug-in on Discord and I decide to give it a shot.

Since I use the fantastic ITS Theme from @SlRvb, which has a powerful customization settings, my suggestions is related to change the colors and decorations of the File Tree to match to customizations I made on ITS

I have some features suggestions for your appreciation. I hope you like!

1 Customization [+] [-]

A. Option to change the color of [+] and [-]

B. Option define to specific colors to [+] and [-]

C. Add a different background-color when hover
---> Option to customize the color

D. Option to change the color of the dashed - - - relationship line

Information: the Style Settings Plugin from @mgmeyers is a plugin used by many themes (ITS and Yin and Yang) as customization tool. Maybe is good ideia to use this for File Tree Alternative customizations

Would be a great combo with @Mara-Li suggestions! #6

2 Wrap Text

Wrap the name of long folder

3 File Extension on the right

Change the position of the file extension from external files makes the UI more pleasant

4 Tools on the Right Side of Vault name

A button to apply some features(utilities) in the folders. My 2 first features are:

1- collapse and uncollapse all
2- sort by lastest date modified

Thanks for reading this! Let me know if need any clarification about the items.

Have a great day!

It would be awesome if you could simply move around files by dragging: