jonasdoesthings / obsidian-hide-folders

Toggle the visibility of folders in the Obsidian.MD file navigator based on name-patterns

obsidian-hide-folders

A simple plugin for obsidian.md that hides configured folders, with the ability to toggle their visibility.
This can be used for hiding attachments folders when you don't need them.

Installation

Search in the community plugins menu of Obsidian for "Hide Folders" look for the right plugin ("by JonasDoesThings"), there you can install the latest stable version.

Configuration

Enter the list of folder names to hide in the settings menu, one folder per line. You can match folders using three ways:

• Exact folder-names (for example attachments)
• All folders starting with a specific string (for example startsWith::_ to filter out all folders whose name starting with a _)
• All folders ending with a specific string (for example endsWith::_trash to filter out all folders whose name is ending with _trash)

You can then also use a sidebar button to quickly toggle the visibility without having to enter the settings menu:

Using the command palette is also supported:

Development

Setup

• Clone this repo.
• npm i or yarn to install dependencies
• npm run dev to start compilation in watch mode.

Building

• npm run build to do a one-off build of the project, which produces the files needed for manually installing the plugin.

Manually installing the plugin

• Copy over the outputted main.js, manifest.json from the dist/ folder to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-hide-folders/.
  -> Watch Out! You cannot copy-over the raw main.ts. You need to run a build first and then copy over the produced main.js.

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License

MIT License, see LICENSE.md

obsidian-hide-folders's Issues

Folders are unhidden after restarting the app

Hi,

First of all, thanks for your plugin!

I have encountered a situation when folders are hidden and when I restart Obsidian, the files are unhidden again. Is this an expected behavior? If yes, why? If not, is there a plan to fix it?

Thank you!

Optional closing status bar prompt

Optional closing status bar prompt

Hide files (folders) and add them to the ignore list at the same time

After a file/folder has been hidden, it remains visible in places such as Quick Switch or search despite its hidden status.
It is hoped that a feature allowing folders to be hidden and added to the system's ignore list can be implemented.
Currently, folders can be manually added to this ignore list, but if visibility is desired in searches, the ignored folder must be removed from the settings, which is cumbersome. Enabling the addition or removal of folders from the ignore list while toggling visibility would streamline the process, requiring only a single click of the sidebar button or execution of the command.
Thank you!

Doesn't work on initial load - Obsidian 1.6.1

Since 1.6 (1.6.1 now) the plugin doesn't hide folder at first launch. Probably needs a delay or a wrapping inside of onLayoutReady()

files disappeared for using a while [bug]

when used the plugin for a while , the files in obsidian explore could not see , but it would come back again after reload app.

obsidian : 1.4.16
plugin: 1.2.0

Lack of compatibility with quick-explorer plugin

Hey there,

One thing that I noticed is that this plugin doesn't work well with Quick Explorer. It keeps showing all files, even the excluded ones (Files and links settings). Do you think it is worth fixing?

See more details: pjeby/quick-explorer#92

Thanks!

Broken File Explorer (Expand All)

If I have my File Explorer open in obsidian with folders and files hidden and expand everything, then it will not display any files or folders. However, If I move the obsidian window to my 32-inch monitor with Full Screen Mode, then it will still display the files and folders but not on a smaller screen or even the 32-inch monitor if it is in (windowed / border) mode.

Is there perhaps a solution to this?

Bug: Folders are only (un)hidden after refresh

After adding or removing a folder from the list of what to hide, folders aren't immediately (un)hidden. From what I can tell, folders are only hidden once you navigate to a new file or folder or something; and I couldn't find a way to unhide unlisted folders until I restarted Obsidian.

Hidden folders are still accessible via keyboard

Set the tabindex of hidden folders to a negative value to prevent that.

Suggestion：To add Regular expressions or wildcards marching

Because sometime people don't only use names as "attachments".

As for me, I would like to rename the attachments folder according to the corresponding file.

Instance: the "test.md" file and "test.assets" folder are in the same folder.

[FR]: Add prefix

Hello!
It's nice you added suffixe, but I would like to suggest "startswith". For example, all my attachment folder startswith _!

My entire file navigator is blank now

• macOS 13.5
• Obsidian 1.4.1
• obsidian-hide-folders 1.0.2

When I enable this plugin, my entire File Navigator pane becomes empty/blank. I don't see any JS errors in the console. At first I thought it might be because I have ( )s in one of my ignored folder names: templates (disabled) but I removed that and just left attach as the single entry, and it's still blank.