Star Favorites

Star your favorite notes and folders straight from the right-click menu, and jump back to them from a dedicated Star Favorites pane.

Repository: github.com/bugrasitemkar/star-favorites Plugin-Page: Obsidian Community Plug-in Page

Features

• Right-click any note or folder (in the file explorer, or a note's tab) and choose Add to favorites. Once favorited, the same menu shows Remove from favorites.
• Favorited notes and folders get a ★ prefixed to their name in the file explorer.
• Click the star icon in the left ribbon (or run the Open favorites view command) to open a Star Favorites pane in the left sidebar listing every starred note and folder. Click an entry to open the note or reveal the folder; right-click an entry to unfavorite it.
• Favorites follow renames and moves automatically, and are cleaned up when the underlying file or folder is deleted.
• Multi-select support: select several files/folders in the explorer and add or remove them from favorites in one click.

The ★ marker is shown in the file explorer only (not in tabs, search, or backlink panes).

Screenshots

Starred items in the file explorer	Favorites pane

Installing for development

npm install
npm run dev

This watches main.ts and rebuilds main.js on save. To test inside a vault, either:

• Clone/copy this folder into <YourVault>/.obsidian/plugins/star-favorites, or
• Symlink this folder into <YourVault>/.obsidian/plugins/star-favorites.

Then reload Obsidian (or use the "Reload app without saving" command) and enable Star Favorites under Settings → Community plugins.

Building for release

npm run build

This type-checks the project and produces a production main.js.

Publishing to the Community Plugins directory

1. Push this repository to github.com/bugrasitemkar/star-favorites.
2. Create a GitHub release whose tag matches manifest.json's version (e.g. 1.0.0, no leading v), and attach main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css as binary attachments to the release.
3. Fork obsidianmd/obsidian-releases, add an entry for star-favorites to community-plugins.json, and open a pull request following their submission guidelines.
4. Bump future versions with npm version <patch|minor|major>, which updates manifest.json and versions.json via version-bump.mjs.

License

MIT