Menu Filter

Long right-click menus are slow to scan. Menu Filter adds a filter box to the top of every long menu in Obsidian, so you can type a few letters instead of reading the whole list.

Right-click a folder, type mov, and the menu narrows to Move folder to…. Press Enter to run it.

How it works

• The filter box appears on any menu with at least 8 items (configurable). It works on menus from the file explorer, the editor, tabs and other plugins.
• The box is focused as soon as the menu opens. Just start typing.
• Matching items stay visible and the first one is highlighted.
• ↑ / ↓ move the highlight, Enter runs it, Esc closes the menu.
• Short menus are left unchanged.

Requirements

• Native menus must be off. With native menus on, the operating system draws the menus, so plugins can't change them. Turn them off in Settings → Appearance → Native menus. On macOS native menus are on by default, and the plugin's settings page warns you when they are.
• Obsidian 1.13 or later.
• Desktop only.

Settings

Installation

Install it from Settings → Community plugins → Browse: search for "Menu Filter", or open its page in the plugin directory.

To install it manually, copy main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/menu-filter/, then enable the plugin.

Development

npm install
npm run dev    # rebuilds main.js on every change
npm run build  # type-check and production build
npm run lint

License

MIT