Obsidian Home tab is an Obsidian plugin that adds a browser-like home default new tab with a search bar and a grid of starred files.
You can search any local file in your vault, both markdown notes and attachments.
This plugin is not meant to be a replacement for the default Quick switcher or any alternative one like Another quick switcher (from which I took inspiration), but rather a faster way to open a note or a file after opening a new tab.
By default, every new empty tab is automatically replaced with the Home tab view. You can disable this behavior in the settings and manually open a new Home tab through the command palette with the commands Home tab: Open new Home tab
or Home tab: Replace current tab
.
To easily find a file you can filter the search by using filters for the file type or the file extension.
You can activate a filter by writing the filter key (see table below) and pressing tab. To remove the filter press backspace.
The following filters are available:
File type | File extension |
---|---|
markdown |
md |
image |
png , jpg , jpeg , svg , gif , bmp |
video |
mp4 , webm , ogv , mov , mkv |
audio |
mp3 , wav , m4a , ogg , 3gp , flac |
pdf |
pdf |
canvas |
canvas |
You can embed the Home tab view in any note with options to show recent files, starred files, or only the search bar.
To embed the search bar to a note, you have to create a search-bar
code block (see the following example).
To show only the search bar, without the title and the logo/icon, add (in a new line) only search bar
.
To show the starred and recent files add, respectively, show starred files
and show recent files
.
For example, the following code block will render the search bar and the starred files.
```search-bar
only search bar
show starred files
```
If enabled, starred files are automatically displayed under the search bar.
By hovering the top right corner, you can unstar a file or change the displayed icon.
The plugin may not work with (or interfere with) other plugins that replace the new tabs with their custom view, such as the Obsidian-Surfing plugin.
The plugin is available directly from the Obsidian plugin browser.
Alternatively, you can install with BRAT by using the following links: https://github.com/olrenso/Obsidian-home-tab
or olrenso/Obsidian-home-tab
.