Lots of nice new things in this release! First up is a new task display in the list pane (see screenshot above). As usual you can customize everything and disable it if you don't want it.
For you power users out there you can finally set sort by property and group by property as default across the entire vault.
And I know many of you have wanted this for a while now - if you hide the root folder you can now temporarily show the root folder with Show hidden items.
Have a great day and thank you for using Notebook Navigator!
New
- Much better task display in the list pane! Notes containing tasks now show a task icon, progress bar, and completed count, such as
5/7, on the same line as the date and parent folder! Everything is optional of course, but this is now enabled by default. You will find all related settings in File display > Show tasks. If you want a green color for completed tasks you can change this with the Style Settings plugin. - Default sorting and grouping was rebuilt from the ground up, and you can now finally use frontmatter properties for default sorting and grouping. You will find all the new related settings in List pane > Sort & group. There are many small QoL improvements too, like changing from a date / descending sort order to file name now also changes sort order to ascending, which is what most users expect.
- In search, you can now use double quotes to match it literally against note names and aliases instead of being read as a filter:
"#work"finds notes with#workin the name instead of filtering on the tag. Use-"term"to exclude matches. - You can quickly show the root folder if it is hidden: the
Show hidden itemstoolbar button now reveals the root folder dimmed at the top of the tree, and theSearch whole vaultcommand works while it is shown. You can also right click the root vault folder to quickly hide and show it with the new context menu options. - New copy options in the file menu:
Copy note link([[link]]),Copy note link as footnote(^[[[link]]]), andCopy note embed(![[link]]) - just makes working with note links easier.
Changed
- I finally took the time to clean up the entire Style Settings panel. Settings are now grouped by pane and element, and border settings sit next to the elements they style. Give it a go and let me know what you think!
- The Recent files count setting now goes up to 50 files, up from 10.
- The Unfinished task icon setting was removed and replaced by the new task progress display.
Fixed
- When a note had a creation date in the future (for example from a frontmatter
createdproperty), thePrevious 7 daysgroup header appeared twice in the list pane, and stray headers then showed up in other folders until Obsidian was restarted. Notes dated in the future now group under a newFuturegroup.