Obsidian Another Quick Switcher Plugin

This is an Obsidian plugin which is another choice of Quick switcher.

• It can create custom search commands (Custom searches)
• It allows you to customize the hotkeys in the quick switcher to your preference
• It can search backlinks and move them without leaving from a keyboard (Backlink search)
• It can move a file to another folder (Move file to another folder)
• It can search regardless of the appearance order of tokens
• It does not perform very fuzzy searches by default, but an option is available to enable such searches
• It can search to consider prefix emoji
• It shows file names and directory names separately

⏬ Install

You can download from Community plugins in Obsidian settings.

⌨️ Features

1. Custom searches

Custom searches enables you to create your original search commands.

Search target

Name	Description
markdown	All markdown files
backlink	Markdown files in backlinks on the current file
link	Markdown files in outgoing links on the current file
2-hop-link	Markdown files in 2-hop-links from the current file
opened file	Markdown files opened in the current window

Sort priorities

You can use the following names as a Sort priorities.

Name	Description	Since
Perfect word match	A query matches perfectly with a word in the file name	6.0.0
Prefix name match	The file name or alias starts with a query	6.0.0
Name match	The file name or alias includes a query	6.0.0
Fuzzy name match	The file name or alias matches fuzzy with a query	8.10.0
Tag match	The query includes the file's tag name	6.0.0
Header match	The query includes the file's header name	6.0.0
Link match	The query includes the file's internal link name	6.0.0
Property match	The query includes the file's property name	11.0.0
Length	Length of the file name or alias	6.0.0
Last opened	The time the file opened last	6.0.0
Last modified	The time the file modified last	6.0.0
Star	The file has a star	6.0.0
Alphabetical	File name or alias order by alphabetically ascend	6.2.0
Alphabetical reverse	File name or alias order by alphabetically descend	7.0.0
Created latest	File creation date from the latest to the earliest	7.0.0
Created earliest	File creation date from the earliest to the latest	7.0.0
(Tags split by comma)	The file has specific tags	7.0.0
(Extensions split by comma)	The file has specific extensions	8.3.0

Warning Please don't forget to click the Save button before you close Obsidian. Otherwise, the settings will never restore when you open Obsidian next time.

Note Examples of (Tags spit by comma) are #hoge, #hoge,#huga, and so on.

Note Examples of (Extensions spit by comma) are .md, .md,.canvas, and so on.

Preset search commands

Recent search

File name search

Landmark search

Star search

Backlink search

Note

Queries enclosed in double quotes are searched as is

• "ho ge" only matches ho ge not hoge
• ho ge matches both ho ge and hoge

A minus sign at the beginning excludes the matched candidates

Ex: If there are three files.

• hoge.md
• hoge
• mdhoge

hoge -md suggests only hoge.

<cd> means the current directory

If a path of the active file is "/usr/local/vault/notes", The query, "<cd> obsidian" will regard as "/usr/local/vault/notes obsidian".

2. Header floating search in file / Header search in file

• Show all headers even after filtering to retain file structures in the brain
• Jump to the first hit suggestion automatically and move next/previous by Tab/Shift+Tab as default
• Queries enclosed in double quotes are searched as is
  • "ho ge" only matches ho ge not hoge
  • ho ge matches both ho ge and hoge

3. Grep

This feature requires ripgrep and set the executable command to "Ripgrep command" option.

It sorts results by modified time descending.

Default hotkeys

• TAB: Search (not realtime)
• Ctrl+,: preview

Note

• Input regards as a regex pattern
• Grep searches only markdown files as default. If you want to search for other extensions, please update the "Grep > Extensions" settings

4. Customizable hotkeys

Detailed hotkeys customization is available for each dialog.

5. Backlink search

The new Backlink search enables displaying all occurrences in the same file and listing the corresponding lines' text.

5-backlink-search.mp4

6. Link search

The new Link search enables displaying all occurrences in the same file and listing the corresponding lines' text.

6-link-search.mp4

7. In file search

"In File search" allows you to search for a specific line within a file using a search keyword and displays it along with the surrounding lines.

2023-10-18_22h09_46.mp4

8. Show backlinks from the dialog

You can show the backlinks about the suggestion in the dialog. (Default hotkey is Mod h)

It can show backlinks from not only existing notes but also phantom(not existing) notes.

9. Navigate outgoing/backlinks without leaving the dialog

You can navigate outgoing/backlinks without leaving the dialog by using the "show links", "show backlinks", "navigate forward", and "navigate back" commands.

10. Preview

You can preview the file without closing the dialog. (Default hotkey is Mod ,)

It shows a floating view that doesn't distract the contents. Additionally, it makes the editor state before opening the dialog after previewing files and closing the dialog.

2023-02-05_16h05_11.mp4

For users who use earlier than v8.0.0

Please read a "🔥 Breaking changes" section in the Release note.

For users who use earlier than v7.0.0

Please read a "🔥 Breaking changes" section in the Release note.

For users who use earlier than v6.0.0

Please read a "🔥 Breaking changes" section in the Release note.

📱 Mobile support

It both supports desktop and mobile.

Feature requests / Bugs

Please create a new issue.

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🖥️ For developers / contributors

Pull requests

Sorry, I would not accept the pull requests except for the following cases.

1. Fix obvious bugs
2. Fix typo or wrong documentation
3. If I ask for it in the GitHub issues or the discussions

Development

Bun is required.

bun i
bun dev

Release

# Stable
VERSION=1.2.3 bun release

# Beta
VERSION=1.2.3-beta1 bun release

Appendix

What is the "2-hop-link"?

2-hop-link are outgoing links in the current file, and files that have outgoing links to them.

For example, If there are relations as follows,

flowchart LR
    D[Dog] --> A[Animal]
    C[Cat] --> A
    O[Owl] --> A

2-hop-link from the "Dog" is as follows.

flowchart LR
    D[Dog]:::focus --> A[Animal]
    D[Dog]:::focus --> C[Cat]
    D[Dog]:::focus --> O[Owl]
    
    classDef focus fill:#f96

More complicated example.

flowchart LR
    Dog:::focus --> Animal
    Dog --> Masaru
    Zagitova --> Masaru
    Masaru --> Akita-inu
    Cat --> Animal
    Owl --> Animal
    Tama --> Cat
    Mike --> Cat
    Animal --> Zoo
    Zoo --> Animal
    Mahjong --> Zoo
    Animal --> Coffee
    classDef focus fill:#f96

2-hop-link from the "Dog" is as follows.

flowchart LR
    Dog:::focus --> Animal:::focus
    Dog --> Masaru:::focus
    Zagitova:::focus --> Masaru
    Masaru --> Akita-inu
    Cat:::focus --> Animal
    Owl:::focus --> Animal
    Tama --> Cat
    Mike --> Cat
    Animal --> Zoo
    Zoo:::focus --> Animal
    Mahjong --> Zoo
    Animal --> Coffee
    classDef focus fill:#f96