Tab Groups

English | 한국어

Chrome-style tab groups for Obsidian. Name and color related tabs, and collapse them when you need the space.

• 🏷️ Group · Right-click a tab → Create tab group. Pick a name and a color.
• 📁 Collapse · Click the label to hide the group's tabs. Click again to bring them back.
• ✋ Move · Drag the label to move the whole group, even to another pane.
• 💾 Keep · Groups and their state come back when Obsidian restarts.

✨ Features

• Colored groups with labels: Give a group of tabs a name and a color. A label sits in front of the group, and every tab in it shares the same color line.
• Collapse and expand: Click a group label to hide its tabs and free up space. Click again to bring them back in their original order. Switching tabs skips over collapsed groups.
• Drag and drop: Drag a single tab or a whole group (by its label). A placeholder shows exactly where it will land. Drop a group onto the edge of a pane to split it, or onto another pane's tab bar to move it there.
• Join and leave groups as you move tabs: Like Chrome, a tab joins an expanded group when you move it into the group, and leaves when you move it out. This works for drag and drop and for keyboard moves such as Pane Relief's "swap tab" commands. Collapsed groups are skipped as one block.
• Open from the file explorer: Clicking a note that is already open inside a collapsed group expands the group and switches to that tab instead of opening a new one.
• Saved across restarts: Groups, their colors, the tabs they contain, and their collapsed state are restored when Obsidian reopens.
• 10 languages: The tab menu and group windows follow the Obsidian language by default. You can pick a language in the plugin settings. Help translate it into your language!
• Pop-out windows: Groups are shown and kept in pop-out windows too.

🚀 Usage

1. Right-click a tab and select Create tab group. Enter a name (optional) and pick a color.
2. To add another tab, right-click it and select Add to "group name", or drag it into the group. To take a tab out, select Remove from group or drag it out.
3. Click the group label to collapse or expand it. Right-click the label to rename it, change its color, ungroup or delete it, or close the group (this closes all of its tabs).

⚙️ Settings

Open Settings → Community plugins → Tab Groups.

• Language: Auto (follows Obsidian), English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Português (Brasil), Русский, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, 繁體中文.
• Tab groups: Lists every group with the number of open tabs. Groups stay even when none of their tabs are open, so you can reuse them from the tab menu. Select Delete to remove the ones you no longer need.

📝 Notes

• A tab that you move to another pane leaves its group, like in Chrome. The group stays in its original pane.
• The tab menu only appears for tabs that show a file. Other tabs, such as an empty tab or the graph view, can be added to a group by dragging them into it.
• Stacked tabs mode hasn't been tested.

🛠️ Installation

Manual installation

Until the plugin is listed in the Community Plugins catalog, you can install it manually:

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
2. In your vault, create the folder .obsidian/plugins/tab-groups/ and put the files in it.
3. Restart Obsidian, go to Settings → Community plugins, and turn on Tab Groups.

The plugin is desktop-only.

💻 Development

This project is built on the Obsidian sample plugin template.

1. Clone this repository into your test vault's .obsidian/plugins/ folder.
2. Install dependencies:

   npm install
   

3. Build in watch mode:

   npm run dev
   

🌐 Translations

[!NOTE] Only the Korean text is written by a native speaker. The English text hasn't been reviewed by native speakers yet, and the other translations were made with the help of AI, so they may not be accurate. If a string sounds wrong or unnatural, please help fix it.

Translations are welcome! Each language is a small JSON file in src/i18n/locales/, and you can edit it right on GitHub without installing anything.

• Fix a translation: Open your language's file, select the pencil icon (Edit this file), fix the text, and propose the change. GitHub opens a pull request for you.
• Add a new language: Copy en.json to a new file named with your language code and translate it.
• Not comfortable with pull requests? Open a translation issue and describe the fix or paste your translation.

Missing strings are shown in English, so partial translations are fine. See the translation guide for details.

🤝 Contributing

Bug reports, ideas, translations and code are all welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.