0.5.7

Changes

• Fix ribbon icon flashing on workspace events by skipping redundant re-renders

0.5.6

Quicker Folders v0.5.6 — Release Notes

Improvement

• Ribbon button — Ribbon button icon now dynamically updates to reflect the current state (pin/pin-off).

0.5.5

Quicker Folders v0.5.5 — Release Notes

New Features

• Right-click context menu — Right-click any note in the file explorer to quickly "Set index note" or "Remove index note", adding or removing index_note: true from the note's frontmatter.
• Ribbon button — A new ribbon button to toggle index note status on the active file. Can be shown/hidden via a new "Show ribbon button" setting.

0.5.4: Front(matter) and center

Quicker Folders v0.5.4 — Release Notes

New Features

• Frontmatter index support — Add index_note: true to any note's frontmatter to set it as the folder's index, without needing "index" in the filename. Frontmatter takes priority over keyword matching.
• Command palette commands — Quickly set or remove a note as the folder index:
  • Quicker Folders: Set current note as index
  • Quicker Folders: Remove current note as index

Bug Fixes

• Nested folder fallback now works correctly — When the nested folder behavior setting doesn't find a result, the plugin now properly falls through to the user's chosen fallback setting, searching recursively through subfolders.

Improvements

• Keyword Save button — The keyword setting now uses an explicit Save button with visual feedback ("Saved!" confirmation + toast notification) instead of saving on every keystroke.
• Renamed "Topmost" to "Alphabetical" — The fallback dropdown option is now labeled "Alphabetical" to better describe its behavior.

0.5.3

Quicker Folders v0.5.3 — Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• Nested folder fallback now works correctly — When the nested folder behavior setting (e.g. "Recently edited index") doesn't find a result, the plugin now properly falls through to the user's chosen fallback setting, searching recursively through subfolders.

Improvements

• Keyword Save button — The keyword setting now uses an explicit Save button with visual feedback ("Saved!" confirmation + toast notification) instead of saving on every keystroke.
• Renamed "Topmost" to "Alphabetical" — The fallback dropdown option is now labeled "Alphabetical" to better describe its behavior, especially in nested folder contexts.

0.5.2: New name and more customization!

Quicker Folders v0.5.2 — Release Notes

Renamed to Quicker Folders

The plugin has been renamed from its previous name to Quicker Folders

New Features

• Customizable keyword setting — You can now change the keyword used to match index notes (default: index). A minimum of 3 characters is enforced to prevent unintended partial matches.

• Nested folder behavior setting — When a folder contains only subfolders and no direct notes, a new setting controls what happens:

  • Open the most recently edited subfolder index
  • Open the most recently edited note recursively
  • Do nothing

• Default fallback changed to "most recent" — The fallback behavior when no index note is found now defaults to opening the most recently edited note.

Improvements

• Added MIT license
• Added AI disclosure to README
• Improved README with better descriptions, examples, settings reference, and tips
• Added authorUrl and fundingUrl to the plugin manifest

0.5.1

v0.5.1 — Fix folder toggle prevention

Bug Fix

• Fixed "Allow folder toggle" not working reliably across all vaults. Previously, the plugin only intercepted DOM events (click, mousedown, etc.) to prevent folders from expanding/collapsing. This worked inconsistently — in some vaults, Obsidian's internal file explorer would still toggle the folder despite the events being stopped.

What changed

• The plugin now patches the file explorer's setCollapsed method directly on the folder item prototype. When "Allow folder toggle" is disabled, the patched method blocks the collapse/expand call at the source, regardless of how Obsidian triggers it.
• Event listeners upgraded from document to window level and now cover pointerdown, pointerup, mousedown, and mouseup for more complete interception.
• The patch is cleanly removed when the plugin is unloaded.

0.5.0: Hello World

FolderIndex v0.5.0

Initial release of FolderIndex — an Obsidian plugin that opens a note when you click on a folder.

Features

• Index note detection — Clicks on a folder name open its index note. Exact matches (index.md) are preferred over partial matches (e.g. Book Index.md).
• Fallback behavior — Choose what happens when no index note exists: open the most recently edited note, the topmost note (alphabetical), or do nothing.
• Strict matching — Optionally require the index note to be titled exactly index.md. Off by default.
• Folder toggle control — Optionally prevent folders from expanding/collapsing when clicking the folder name. The arrow always works.

Installation

See the README for BRAT and manual installation instructions.