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Nested Notes R

Lyn RaineLyn Raine114 downloads

Nest notes under other notes with drag-and-drop and collapse/expand. Manual rearrange supported.

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This is an Obsidian plugin that enables organizing notes in a nested structure by drag-and-drop, just like in Notion.

You can use this plugin for nested tags, indexing topics, maps of contents (MOC), etc.

This plugin is a fork of nested-notes by october (https://github.com/october-learns/nested-notes)

Original plugin demo (1.x.x)

demo

How to use

You can activate this plugin within Obsidian by doing the following:

  • Open Obsidian
  • Open Setting > Community plugins
  • Turn on community plugins if you haven't
  • Browse > Search for Nested Notes > Install

Release history

1.0.0

  • First Release
  • Added Features:
    • Drag and drop to organise notes.
    • Collapse or expand in view.
    • Hide folders, non-markdown files.
  • Added Settings:
    • Show/hide file icon
    • Show/hide folder path

2.x.x

  • Change: Files nested in file system
  • Added: Add nested note button on hover
  • Added: Auto-building content list in parent note
  • Added: Ability to manually rearrange notes
  • Changed: Notion-like icons
  • Added: Drag-n-drop links creation

Reworked edition demo (2.x.x)

2.1.3 demo

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

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Generative neural networks were used to write this project.

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Organize notes into a Notion-like nested hierarchy using drag-and-drop and hover controls. Collapse and expand groups, auto-build parent note content lists, add nested notes on hover, and create links by dragging to build maps-of-content, nested tags, or indexed topics.
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Current version
2.3.0
Last updated
Last month
Created
Last month
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8 releases
Downloads
114
Compatible with
Obsidian 1.13.7+
Platforms
Desktop, Mobile
License
GPL-3.0
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