Obsidian Vault Explorer

Find detailed documentation at vaultexplorer.com

Vault Explorer is an Obsidian plugin that leverages frontmatter properties to help you explore and organize your vault files.

The goal of Vault Explorer is to solve three main problems:

  1. How to easily filter by groups of frontmatter properties and other file data.
  2. How to display frontmatter properties in meaningful visual layouts.
  3. How to create a social media-like experience using just your personal data.

Vault Explorer is a work in progress. Please check the GitHub repository and documentation website regularly for updates.

Table of contents

Screenshots

Grid view

List view

Table view

Feed view

Custom filter



Sort filter

Search filter

Installation

  1. In Obsidian, open Settings
  2. Go to Community plugins
  3. Click Browse
  4. Search for Vault Explorer by DecafDev
  5. Click Install
  6. Finally, click Enable

Usage

Click the compass button on the left-hand sidebar to open the vault explorer view.

Premium

Premium features are available to users who purchase a Vault Explorer license.

Please do not share your license key with anyone. Shared license keys will be deactivated.

Features

Name Categories Documented
Move focus with left and right arrows Accessibility
See an image placeholder on the grid card Cover image
Load a cover image from the image property Cover image
Load images from the url property Cover image
Load images from the first link in the frontmatter (wiki link or url) Cover image
Load images from the first link the body (internal embed or external embed) Cover image
Cache social media images Cover image
Change the order of cover image sources Cover image, Setting
Enable/disable cover image sources Cover image, Setting
Enable/disable loading the social media image Cover image, Setting
Clear the social media cache Cover image, Setting
Change the collapse style for feed content Feed view, Setting
Remove H1 from feed content Feed view, Setting
Remove markdown from feed content Feed view, Setting
Change the feed content line clamp for small screens Feed view, Setting
Change the feed content line clamp for medium screens Feed view, Setting
Change the feed content line clamp for large screens Feed view, Setting
See files icons next to the file name File icons
Toggle file icons File icons, Setting
Reorder the filter group list Filter group
Add a filter group Filter group
Delete a filter group Filter group
Set a filter group as sticky Filter group
Unset a filter group as sticky Filter group
Right click to edit a filter group item Filter group
Change the filter groups wrap Filter groups, Setting
Add a filter rule Filter rule
Delete a filter rule Filter rule
Duplicate a filter rule Filter rule
Match when property doesn't exist toggle Filter rule
Filter files by folder Filter rule
Filter by frontmatter property Filter rule
Select a condition Filter rule
Select a logical operator: and, or Filter rule
Filter files by folder Filter rule
Filter files by file content Filter rule
Filter files by file name Filter rule
Enable/disable a filter rule Filter rule
Enter a license key License, Setting
Enable/disable tags on a list item List view, Setting
Set the log level Logging
Filter by search Search filter
Change the plugin configuration folder Setting
Sort by title: asc, desc Sort order
Sort by modification date: asc, desc Sort order
Randomly sort files Sort order
Set property for modification date Setting
Set property for creation date Setting
See vault files in a grid view View
See vault files in a list view View
See vault files in a feed view View
See vault files in a table view View
Change the view list order View
Limit displayed files with pagination View
Search for a tag when clicked View
See a file preview when mouse hovers link and ctrl/cmd is pressed View
Search for property when clicked View
Load tags from the body of a markdown notes View
Set page size View, Setting
Set a url property View, Setting
Set custom text property View, Setting
Enable/disable load tags from a markdown note View, Setting

Network use

Vault Explorer is a privacy friendly plugin.

When you access the grid view, Vault Explorer will make requests to the URL's that you specify to display cover images. You may disable this behavior in the settings.

Besides cover image fetching, Vault Explorer does not make any network requests.

Vault Explorer does not include any client-side telemetry.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md to get started.

License

Vault Explorer is distributed under MIT License.

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