VirtFolder

A plugin for creating a hierarchical structure in Obsidian.

Allows you to quickly find notes by navigating the knowledge base like a book table of contents.

Articles

• How to organize a knowledge base in Obsidian using the Luhmann method (en)
• VirtFolder — Obsidian plugin overview (en)
• VirtFolder — обзор плагина для Obsidian (ru)

Features

• The ability to perform all operations using hot keys
• Dragging and dropping notes with the mouse, including custom sort order
• Creating and deleting notes via the right-click menu
• Add files to virtual folders from the file explorer context menu
• Emoji icon picker with categorized groups for notes
• Tag-based note highlighting with configurable colors
• Frontmatter as HTML data attributes for CSS styling
• Optional string format for single-parent folder links
• Create notes via Unique note creator
• Front Matter Title plugin support
• Database optimization

Documentation

The current documentation is available in the docs folder.

The old documentation is located on GitBook.

Example

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a4990b31-c8ea-48c8-815a-98521d81fc7d