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Hello there,

if possible, can we have a keyword to specify the target type of cards to be generated within a ccard block of type folder_brief_live?
I'd like to only show cards in my folder_brief_live about notes, not folders. I believe this could be a useful feature of general use. The passed value can be notes only, folder only or both. I've tried to look for this feature in the documentation or in the previously opened issues, but I haven't found anything about it. If I've missed, I apologize.

Also, allow me to include my sincere gratitude at the end of this post. Thanks a lot for all the effort and work you're doing with this plug-in. It's pretty awesome and really fill a lacune of Obsidian, IMHO. I hope to be absorbed and integrated officially in the Obsidian program.

If you set this as a config template:

{{FOLDER_NAME}}
{{FOLDER_NAME}}

It only fills in the first occurrence.

I tried this because I got the idea that aliases could be used to overcome the cons of index files. If you use something like this:

---
aliases: [{{FOLDER_NAME}}]
---
# {{FOLDER_NAME}}

```ccard
type: folder_brief_live
imagePrefix: 'attachments/'
```

then linking to this would work great - Obsidian will automatically convert [[myfolder]] to [[myfolder/_about_.md|myfolder]].

I have a vault of books I've read. Each note has a front matter which includes the variable Cover: whose value is a link to an image. In a Dataview table it's set up to show that cover next to the title and the author, etc.

Is there a way around having to fill in a code block for each entry in the live overview thing? Or is there a way to have it recognize the link after Cover: ? This would save work and also then I don't have to add another of those code blocks whenever I add a book.

Or is there something I'm missing?
Thanks :)

Just as we are able to hide the folder note when we click the folder, we need a way to add a key, plus click to show the folder note again. I often want to open the folder note in a new pane, for example, but cannot access it as a normal .md file and thus do not get the context menu for that file with options such as "Open in new pane."

In the same vein as #2, I'm following a pretty common convention with many of my notes, consisting in describing the gist of the note in its first paragraph.

Therefore, it would be much helpful to me, if the first paragraph of the notes could be used as brief when in folder_brief_live.

By paragraph, I mean paragraph that do not consist of a single image, obviously.

Cheers

Folder note plugin uses the section titles of notes as brief when generating its JSON data.

When a section of a note contains a quote, the corresponding brief attribute contains an unescaped quote, leading to incorrect JSON contents that cannot be rendered.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Add FOLDER-BRIEF-LIVE to the contents and set file-outside-folder mode.
2. Create the following folder structure:

 - root
     - folder1
         - folder2

3. Create a note for folders 1 and 2
4. Open folder 1 note
5. As described in #7 , both folder2 and folder2_note are shown as cards. Hovering over the note card, preview of folder1 note is shown (although the title of the preview says folder2).

This is really hard for me to understand, because clicking on the card correctly takes you to the folder2 note.

I tested other configs:

• FOLDER-BRIEF (non-live) works fine
• File inside folder (index or named) doesn't have this problem because it doesn't show the child folder as a note (since folder2.md is not inside folder1)

Naming an index as index is a common pattern across disciplines. It's awkward to use _about_ as the name.

If anything, maybe a config option to configure the index file name?

on obsidian 0.13.14, unable to preview anything from content from Folder Note plug-in. Tested on live view, legacy editor and still not working

tested on older version 0.12.19 and it is working fine.

Wondering if there is any way to make Folder Note work on 0.13.14 ?

Following is the initial setup.

.../some.md
[[Note 1]]

Note 1/
Note 1.md

Then I change the folder from Note 1 to Note 2. As expected, Note 1.md is auto renamed to Note 2.md. But [[Note 1]] inside some.md stayed the same instead of being updated to [[Note 2]]. So we end up with an inconsistent situation.

Hello, thanks for making the plug-in works great! Unfortunately one thing that doesn't happen is that the note that contains the links to the different notes does not actually create links for viewing in the obsidian graph view. What this means is that I essentially have to duplicate the links. Not sure if I missed anything.

Thanks!

Hello,

Stumbled upon an issue when the NoteFIleMethod is set to Index File and the IndexFileName has a leading '.' , a Ctrl+LMB does create the file, however the editor shoots an error message saying 'File exists'.
The same happens when the folder in question is selected with LMB.

I'd like to keep the index file 'hidden'. Is there an intentional limitation on this?

Thanks for looking into this.

Currently if @xpgo disappears from the community, no one will be able to fork this project since it doesn't have a license.

Please consider adding a permissive license to the project.

MIT might be a good choice!

By the way, I have limited the max brief length to 64, if you want a longer brief, please use the briefMax key for ccard type of folder_brief_live.

I understand the rationale that went along with this change.
But when the 1st paragraph contains a link, and that link is truncated, this leads to a problem when in preview mode:

file:///E:/Documents

On an iPhone I cannot use Cmd nor Alt keyboard modifiers on tap to create a folder note for a folder which doesn't have one. It would be good to have a menu item to do that, I mean in the menu which appears when you long press on a folder.

Let's say I have a folder named "A" which contains a file named "A". If I rename the file to "B", the folder name will also automatically change to "B". I was able to isolate this to Folder Note. I disabled all plugins. The problem disappeared. I then added them back the plugins one-by-one until the problem reappeared, and, sure enough, it was Folder Note that caused the problem.

Obviously this only affects the "file outside folder" mode.

1. Create a folder
2. Ctrl+click to create a file.
3. Remove folder

Result: file still exists, but is hidden until Obsidian is restarted.

Expected behavior: not really sure - either to remove the file, or to show it. I guess removing it makes most sense?

It would be nice to add a prefix to the front of foldernote names.

Some examples:
If the folder is named: Projects

• underscore prefix - The foldernote would always have an underscore in it _Projects
• MOC content type postfix - The foldernote would alway have MOC added to the end of it: Projects MOC

This feature would leave the folder name alone. the folder would still be Projects, the foldernote filename would just be <prefix>+<foldername>+<postfix>

This would just make it easier to reference and open in the quick switcher

As stated in the title - when file-outside-folder mode is used, the folder brief shows both the folder and the file as separate cards. I don't know if this is intentional, but it would be great to have an option to disable it so it only shows the note (if note exists of course). Additionally, if note doesn't exist, clicking on that card creates it and opens the newly created note.

When navigating my notes it is quite annoying that every time I click on a folder with an attached note using this app that it automatically opens, when I may just be trying to access a note further down the path. Have to swipe back every time.

Any way to change it so that you open folder notes through a double tap?

So afaik folder note can display the first few phrases/sentences or a custom description of a file. Would it be possible to display select YAML values of the file instead?

In Live Preview mode, some thumbnail images (especially but seemingly not exclusively high-resolution images) appear over-pixelated and grainy, yet in standard reading/preview mode, they seem fine.

Example in Live Preview
Image 720x720

Same image in standard preview mode

Perhaps there's some sort of image anti-aliasing that markdown preview mode does that Live Preview hasn't implemented yet? I haven't noticed this kind of issue in standard image embeds though, so I thought it might be with this plugin.

Edit: Obsidian version v0.13.19, running on Windows 10.

I tried to move a folder to a different parent folder and after the move the folder note fails to show. Then I move the folder back to original parent folder and now the folder note re-appears. Sounds like a bug to me.

hey, first of all great plugin :)
For me it stops working when placing a folder with an attached note inside another folder eg. when Folder1 with attached note is placed in the vaults root it works fine and opens the note upon click, but when Folder1 is inside Folder2 the note doesn't open on Folder click.

Hidden files always appear.
After restarting obsidian, in order to hide the files with the same name as the folder. It is always necessary to click on the FolderNote node folder.

This is connected to @mrjackphil's https://github.com/mrjackphil/obsidian-backlinks-in-document plugin, which sometimes cuts off folder note plugin like so:

better example:

as per the title, thanks!!

I have a md file that does not contain any image but contains an embedded note (e.g., ![[blablabla]]). It seems that foldernote is taking it as an image and tries to give me a thumbnail.

<div class="thumb" style="background-image: url(app://local/C%3A%5CUsers%5CTC%5COneDrive%5COneSyncFiles%5Cpages%5C%E6%80%A5%E6%80%A7%E8%82%BE%E6%8D%9F%E4%BC%A4?1631853878029);"></div>

Description

When Live Preview is enabled, ccards seem to be cached in a way.
When switching between two notes, containing the folder_brief_live ccard, the content displays the structure of the initial folder.

Prerequisites

An example structure :

• Root
  • Subdirectory

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a note with the default template for Subdirectory (containing a folder_brief_live ccard)
2. Create a note with the default template for Root
3. The Live Preview of Root shows the contents of Subdirectory

This only happens on Live Preview, Reading mode works as intended

Given a situation like the following where we have a folder with nested folders and notes. The notes can be accessed by click on the name meanwhile the folder note of the nested folder cannot be accessed this way.

If this isn't a bug, I think this would be a fantastic feature to have as it would make navigating around very convenient.

Also, is there a way prevent folders from closing in the file explorer and still show the folder note? (If this is not possible, then the feature described above imo would be even better)

Great extension btw.

Would love for there to be a sorting feature even if just by date for this :D Thanks for devving this plugin btw! Really solved some of my issues with not having a preview mode for the notes.

Is it possible to automatically add images to the folder cards that use this plugin (using the first image in the preview)?

Your plugin works almost perfectly, it only takes two things.

1. It would be great if the about.md note takes the name of the same folder. I don't know how possible that would be for you.
2. Due to the collapsible behavior of folders when you want to go to the "folder note" it collapses. A solution for this could be for the folder to collapse with just the arrow and not with the name (that is, the entire label box).

Congrats, I hope you can get it. You've really come close to Obsidian Forum's "note hierarchy" request.

Hi, and thanks for your extension, which I just discovered through Bri Watson's interview by Anthony Gold.

One feature I'd find very helpful is the ability to use the first found ![](image) within notes as the thumbnail image for that note when generating ccards.
Indeed, I try and add an image of every person into the associated note ; and I find it useful to do the same with books.
This feature would allow to generate a live gallery of all the people I'm interested in, and a live gallery view of the books I took notes about. This would be great.

Cheers!

It seems more natural to be able to right click and select the option from context menu to create a folder note.

I noticed that the Kanban plugin has this abilty. Perhaps there is an API

?

I hope I haven't overlooked anything, but I can't seem to find an option to enable a link: attribute in the live folder cards. I love browsing my notes with this plugin and just being able to click on any note in this card format and opening it with that is extremely helpful, but it doesn't seem to work by default for folders. As it's quite easy to add manually do a ccard entry, I hope this is also doable for folders in the folder_brief_live mode.
Thank you for your awesome plugin anyways :D

Hello,

First off, thank you for this really useful plugin.

I observed that the command converting a note to a folder produces nothing when the selected NoteFileMethod is set to Index.
Had a look at the code, and found there's no actual condition for the Index case.

Is there an improvement planned for this in the backlog?
If time's an issue, I can try to do a PR, let me know.

Kind regards

Description

Obisidian configuration files are showing in folder_brief_live ccard as seen on the screenshot below.

Would an exclusion be appropriate in this case?

Thanks for your time

I use graph view a lot for an overview of everything and this plugin is awesome to keep the notes organized but has no interaction with the graph map. What I suggest is the connections made by using links in the folder note transferred to the graph view and visually to connect them too.

Hi, is it possible to show tags of each note at the bottom of the cards generated by {{folder_brief_live}} ? Then we can get to know the main idea of every notes more easily.

I use this plugin and github page to publish my docs, but I want to ignore index file md. However, there is no good way to write .gitignore and keep the relationship graph beautiful(If I use Index File Method, relationship graph will be very ugly)

Currently, we can select files that are in the folder that our note is a folder note of; however, it would also be beneficial to be able to select files of from subfolders.

In the folder note, I can see the subfolders with a card telling how many subfolders and notes it contains; but, I can't easily navigate to the notes in those folder.. a pop-up that allows more navigation or something along those lines would be great.

As title says. Currently the only way to open the folder note is by clicking the folder which opens it in the current focused note pane, replacing the current note in that pane.

Adding support for Cmd-click (Ctrl-click on Win/Linux) would add the intuitive expected behavior that is already present in Obsidian when opening notes from various sidebar widgets. (file explorer, backlinks, etc)

Would be nice if folders with a note were bolded

Hi,

first, many thanks for a great plugin :) Some remarks:

1. After the plugin install, some of my folder names disappear (and re-appear after I hover the cursor over them) - see the clack blanks in the left panel:

2. One question: is it possible to change a default, always appearing in the "orange" field "NOTE" text with notes real name, and text note in the body? E.g. (see picture attached)
   from

NOTE

AI in Process mining

to

AI in process mining

How to identify...

Many thanks in advance,

Andy

Embedded search in Obsidian seems to have a lot of overlap with the live-ccard idea. However, ccard is way better-looking, while embedded search is simply searching through all the notes and listing the results.

Is there a search API available to the plugins? If yes, is it possible to expose embedded search params to ccards?

If something like this is possible, I think that enabling it would make the ccard+query a very popular new plugin which enables you to build custom "catalog" notes. It might also simplify the development of this plugin, making new features very simple to add (e.g. add a section of cards which are tagged with the current note-folder name, or are linking to it, etc.)

Sometimes I don't want the plug-in catch my first image in the note, but i couldn't manage to change it by editing the ccard code when i use"folder_brief_live" type.