Obsidian File Tree Alternative Plugin

This Obsidian Plugin allows users to change the order of their files (and to infer order from metadata).

It's based on the alternate file tree plugin by Ozan Tellioglu. It uses the same file explorer display just with a new ordering system.

Plugin Features

There are three main options for ordering notes:

1. Explicit ordering. You can specify a metadata field like order to explicitly order files.
   • You might set this field to lcc to use it with the Library of Congress codes of the Linked Data Vocabularies plugin.
   • Or you could implement a classic Folgezettel numbering system without having the index clutter your note titles.
2. Implicit ordering (tags). You can impose an "ordering" on tags in an external config file, then use this to order files by the tags that show up in them.
3. Implicit ordering (files). You can group files by file hierarchy

You can also compose these two systems. Simply reorder the priority setting from ["file", "tag", "explicit""] to whatever order (in decreasing priority) you like.

It orders files by an order field in the metadata.

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Acknowledgment of duplication

The nice thing about digital notes is that they can be duplicated at will and rendered in every conceivable order.