1.0.0

Replaces the filename in a note's header with a clickable, editable breadcrumb of its vault path — an address bar for your notes, modelled on Dolphin's.

Install with BRAT: add Gelaende51/obsidian-lure as a beta plugin.

Install manually: download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css below into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/lure/, then enable it under Settings → Community plugins.

Obsidian 1.4.0+ · desktop only · AGPL-3.0

What it does

• Click a folder for a dropdown of its parent's contents — swap one folder for a sibling and leave the rest of the path alone.
• Click the delimiter after a folder to reveal and expand it in the File Explorer, or open its folder note if Folder notes is handling it.
• Click the filename or empty space to type a path directly, with autocomplete. / descends, Backspace steps out, Enter commits.
• Pencil Folder button switches the same interactions to move/rename, validated the way Obsidian validates.
• Ctrl opens in a new tab — or, in move/rename mode, copies the note there instead.
• F2 alternates between the inline title and the path bar.
• 45 locales, every language Obsidian's interface ships.

Outside the vault

Off by default. Turning on Access external files lets the vault name open your other vaults, home, the filesystem root and mounted drives, so you can look at a note in another vault without closing everything you have open.

Nothing out there is written until you press a button that says so, and there are two, each covering only its own surface: the viewer's edit button for one file in one tab, and the header's padlock for creating, renaming and moving. Neither unlock is persisted. Nothing is ever overwritten — an existing target is refused using the filesystem's own exclusive-create rather than a check that could lose a race — and a note can never be moved out of your vault, because links to it would break silently; Ctrl copies it out instead.

Obsidian's editor is bound to files inside the vault, so an external file cannot be opened as a real note with links and backlinks — no plugin can do that. Lure shows it in its own viewer instead.

Compatibility

Verified against the community plugins that share the note header or answer the folder click, in both load orders and with each on and off: Folder notes, Folder Note, create folder notes with dropdown, Quick Explorer, Front Matter Title, Nav Link Header, Running Head, Crumbs, Breadcrumbs. Details in docs/compatibility.md.

Of the folder-note plugins, only Folder notes claims the header path; with the others the delimiter reveals the folder as usual.

Notes

All 45 translations are machine-generated and unreviewed by native speakers — corrections are the most welcome kind of PR. See the README's AI disclosure for how this was built.