Obsidian Another Quick Switcher Plugin
This is an Obsidian plugin which is another choice of Quick switcher.
- It can create custom search commands (
Custom searches) - It can search backlinks and move them without leaving from a keyboard (
Backlink search) - It can move a file to another folder (
Move file to another folder) - It can search regardless of the appearance order of tokens
- It only searches Markdown files except for the case of
Move file to another folder - It does not search very fuzzy (e.g. searching for
201doesn't match2.01) - It can search to consider prefix emoji
- It shows file names and directory names separately
⏬ Install
You can download from Community plugins in Obsidian settings.
⌨️ Features
1. Custom searches
Custom searches enables you to create your original search commands.
Search target
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| markdown | All markdown files |
| backlink | Markdown files in backlinks on the current file |
| link | Markdown files in outgoing links on the current file |
Sort priorities
You can use the following names as a Sort priorities.
| Name | Description | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Perfect word match | A query matches perfectly with a word in the file name | 6.0.0 |
| Prefix name match | The file name or alias starts with a query | 6.0.0 |
| Name match | The file name or alias includes a query | 6.0.0 |
| Tag match | The tag name in the file includes a query | 6.0.0 |
| Header match | The header name in the file includes a query | 6.0.0 |
| Link match | The internal link name in the file includes a query | 6.0.0 |
| Length | Length of the file name or alias | 6.0.0 |
| Last opened | The time the file opened last | 6.0.0 |
| Last modified | The time the file modified last | 6.0.0 |
| Star | The file has a star | 6.0.0 |
| Alphabetical | File name or alias order by alphabetically ascend | 6.2.0 |
| Alphabetical reverse | File name or alias order by alphabetically descend | 7.0.0 |
| Created latest | File creation date from the latest to the earliest | 7.0.0 |
| Created earliest | File creation date from the earliest to the latest | 7.0.0 |
| (Tags split by comma) | The file has specific tags | 7.0.0 |
Warning Please don't forget to click the
Savebutton before you close Obsidian. Otherwise, the settings will never restore when you open Obsidian next time.
Note Examples of
(Tags spit by comma)are#hoge,#hoge,#huga, and so on.
Preset search commands
Recent search
File name search
Landmark search
Star search
Backlink search
Note
- Queries enclosed in double quotes are searched as is
"ho ge"only matchesho genothogeho gematches bothho geandhoge
2. Header floating search in file / Header search in file
- Show all headers even after filtering to retain file structures in the brain
- Jump to the first hit suggestion automatically and move next/previous by
Tab/Shift+Tabas default - Queries enclosed in double quotes are searched as is
"ho ge"only matchesho genothogeho gematches bothho geandhoge
3. Grep
This feature requires ripgrep and set the executable command to "Ripgrep command" option.
Default hotkeys
TAB: Search (not realtime)Ctrl+,: preview
Note
- Input regards as a regex pattern
For users who use earlier than v6.0.0
Please read a "
📱 Mobile support
It both supports desktop and mobile.
Feature requests / Bugs
Please create a new issue.
🖥️ For developers / contributors
Pull requests
Sorry, I would not accept the pull requests except for the following cases.
- Fix obvious bugs
- Fix typo or wrong documentation
- If I ask for it in the GitHub issues or the discussions
Development
Task is required.
task init
task devRelease
# Stable
task release VERSION=1.2.3
# Beta
task release VERSION=1.2.3-beta1