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Banyan

ratigerratiger9k downloads

A homepage to browse, organize, and access notes in card form easily with multi-tag filtering.

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Banyan offers a new way to organize and view your notes:

  • More Intuitive Note Browsing: Compared to viewing just note titles, the card view lets you browse notes more intuitively;
  • Organize Notes with Tags: Traditional tree structures only allow a single classification method. Organizing notes with tags allows you to organize notes in multiple ways.

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⚡ Quick Start

Creating Notes

You can create notes in specific locations as usual, and they will appear in the card panel.
However, if you don't care about the location of your notes, you can use the plugin's note creation feature, which creates notes with default locations and titles.
The highlight of this plugin is organizing notes using tags. Tags in both the note body and properties are displayed in the card view and participate in search.

Searching Notes & Filter Schemes

In addition to basic keyword search, date range and tag searches are also supported. Flexible tag search schemes can be combined using "OR, AND, NOT" logic.
Frequently used searches can be added to "Saved Filters".

Random Browsing

You can randomly browse all notes or notes within a specific filter scheme to unexpectedly encounter your past notes.

For more details, please check:
User Guide
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🤖 Installation

Method 1: Install from Obsidian Community Plugins (Recommended)

  1. Open Obsidian settings
  2. Go to "Community plugins"
  3. Turn off "Restricted mode"
  4. Click "Browse", search for "Banyan"
  5. Install and enable

Method 2: Manual Installation

  1. Download the release package from releases
  2. Extract to .obsidian/plugins/ directory
  3. Enable the plugin in Obsidian settings

☎️ Questions?

Feel free to ask questions or submit suggestions on GitHub!
Github issue: obsidian-banyan - ratiger | Github

Or contact me via:

  • Email: [email protected]
  • RedNote: ratiger (RedNote ID: 1392996322)

❤️ Support Me

  • 🇨🇳 ratiger - Afadian
  • 🌍 ratiger - Ko-fi

License

GPLv3 - See LICENSE file for details

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Organize and browse notes with a card-based homepage that displays clear titles, content previews, and tags. Filter by multiple tags, time ranges, or content; save filter sets, run random reviews to rediscover old notes, and view a heat map of your writing activity.
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Details
Current version
1.4.7
Last updated
2 months ago
Created
Last year
Updates
21 releases
Downloads
9k
Compatible with
Obsidian 1.8.0+
Platforms
Desktop, Mobile
License
GPL-3.0
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Author
ratigerratiger
github.com/ratiger/
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