First feedback, questions and some suggestions to 1.0

[merlinuwe]

You shouldn't have shown me the link to the dashboard navigator, hehe. Here are some ideas (but I'm sure you have also good ones.)

At first: Gratulation. This is the next big thing.

Fits perfect to MagicUser theme Moon.

Sorting of the tables by mouse-click on the headers?

Sort by: By "last accessed" possible?

At the moment, there are scrollbars. Yes, the horizontal one may appear, when there are long paths, filenames or many tags.

Recent files seems to be the same as Recent notes, at the moment. I opened a pdf-file but the recent files seem to show the same.

Optional link to start in the left ribbon

"Other" is very much. The user may see his prefered file types (.mm, excaligraph, html, ico, svg, py, gif, avif, lnk, MS Office/LibreOffice files, zip, 7z, xmind, json, ...)

Search: Which (fast) search engine do you use? tag:Obsidian does not work, but #Obsidian, wao! Searching with and, or, not, filter? Is there a documentation? Click on tag to search -> well made. (Idea: same for click on the path)

The font size could be greater for my old eyes.

Dynamical column with, very good.

Dashboard: Hover plugin support? Cool: Searching without switching before to the Navigator.

Well thought out.

[drbap]

First of all, thank you very much for the feedback and for testing this plugin. Much appreciated. It is still in version 1.0.0, I hope to improve it, but with a focus on speed in mind. I intend to keep it as fast as possible to find the content.

Well, I will try to comment on some of your suggestions/feedback...

Sorting tables by mouse click on the headers?

You can sort by double left clicking on the desired table header (it will also toggle between ascending/descending -> sort order). I had to use this to allow easier resizing of the table column and also to avoid misclicks on the table headers.

Font size will have an option soon (plugin settings). But I will have to limit the font size maybe to 22 or 24px. I also plan to have the option to show/hide specific columns, to have more screen space.

About the search, it is implemented by the plugin using JavaScript, it does not use Obsidian search keywords. I tried to make it as fast as possible, so that you can quickly find the content you want. If I added too many AND | OR options, it could become slow. I tested the search on relatively large vaults with 10,000+ files and it was still fast. The plugin search does not use keywords like Obsidian search, such as tag:tagName. You can type #tagName (start with hashtag symbol) and it will fetch all the notes where you find the tag #tagName. You can also use some regular expressions like #tag1|#tag2 to see notes with #tag1 and/or #tag2.

So, in general terms, you can type the word, date, folder path, #tag or any content displayed in the search results table. For example, start with /FolderName and it will find all the files in that folder and its subfolders. You can also search by extension like .ppt, .pdf or any other file extension. You don't need to type *.ppt or *.pdf. Just type directly what you want.

About clicking on tags, yes, when you click on any tag, it will fetch all the notes with that tag (including the tags added in frontmatter).

You can right click on any search result and use the context menu to show the file properties. The properties window will show the tags in the selected file.

When possible, I will write more about the search functionality.

There is also a date filter... You can simply type the date like 2024-07 (depending on the selected date format), to get all notes from this month. But you can start the input search with only special keywords like @day to show notes from the same day (today). Then @day-1 (or @yesterday) and continue to @day-7, @week, @month and @year. These special keywords will have a different color than the traditional input text color. They will have the selected accent color.

• I plan to have the option of colored icons. I tried (file name and icon), but it seemed distracting to me (so many colors at once). Maybe only the file icon could be colored (optional).

I have added your suggestions to the list of things to consider and/or implement in future updates. If you have any more suggestions, I will be happy to hear them.

All the best

[drbap]

Some features implemented plugin version 1.1.0.

• New clear input search button.
• Click on path (navigator).
• Font size control using slider (results and links).

I hope it is easier to see now. You can select font size up to 24px using the font slider.

All the best

[merlinuwe]

Ah, the font size is now adjustable, but it affects only the first 2 columns - intended?

Fast searching with path, great; quick sortable columns, also great.

As far as I see no side effects, no entries in the console.

The column "Size" could be right aligned:

Can't wait for the next release. ;-)

[drbap]

Thanks, my friend. Glad it looks better now.

Well, no. It should increase the font size (all results and links, not only the first 2 columns). Check it out the screenshot below (please check if there is any table plugin that is using some !important css rule to set the font size).

Thanks for the suggestion of right align the size column. Stay tuned for the next update.

[drbap]

The screenshot is using the default theme, but it works this way using MagicUser theme as well (not only 2 columns).

[merlinuwe]

Yes, I actually have this css file which has font-size: 0.8em !important; in the 3rd last line. But when I delete !important, my dataview an markdown tables have a too wide font. Do you have any advice how I can solve this?

/* Mi., 2024-07-03, 20:00:16 Uhr:  Verkleinert dataview Tabellen 
Tabellen-Schmalschrift-mit-dataview-scrollbar.css

Quelle: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/109oojk/dataview_table_font_size/
*/

table  {
  font-variant-numeric: lining-nums tabular-nums; /* Ziffern gleich groß in Tabellen, damit sie schön untereinander stehen */
  /* Schmale Schrift für Tabellen, alle verfügbar unter Windows */
  font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Noto Sans", "Open Sans SemiCondensed", "Open Sans Condensed", sans-serif; 
  color: lightyellow;
  margin-right: auto;
  width: 50%;
  border-collapse: collapse; /* Spalten eng aneinander legen */
  border: 1px solid #ffa500;
  word-wrap: break-word; /* Automatisches Umbrechen von Wörtern */
  hyphens: auto; /* Automatische Trennung von Wörtern */
}

/* I found the following CSS helpful 
in reducing the size pf my dataview tables inside obsidian. 
It limits the max height of the tables and adds vertical scroll bars. */

.block-language-dataview  {
  display: block;
  max-height: 800px;  /* Geändert von 400 auf 800px */
  overflow: auto;
}

.block-language-dataviewjs  {

  display: block;
  max-height: 400px;
  overflow: auto; }

/* */

/* Engere Spalten für Markdown-Tabellen in Obsidian */

table th  {
    color: orange !important;

}

/* Dashboard navigator: Makes all columns after the 2nd with this font size */
table td, table th  {
  padding: 2px 5px; /* Weniger Abstand innerhalb der Zellen */
  margin: 0; /* Kein Abstand um die Zellen herum */
  border: 1px solid #ddd; /* Dünne Rahmen um Zellen, optional */
  font-size: 0.8em !important;
  word-wrap: break-word; /* Automatisches Umbrechen von Wörtern */
  hyphens: auto; /* Automatische Trennung von Wörtern */
}

[drbap]

Yes, I actually have this css file which has font-size: 0.8em !important; in the 3rd last line. But when I delete !important, my dataview an markdown tables have a too wide font. Do you have any advice how I can solve this?

Yes, please replace the part referring the dashboard navigator with the code below (the rest of the snippet could stay the same). It should fix it.

table:not(#dn-table) td, table:not(#dn-table) th  {
  padding: 2px 5px; /* Weniger Abstand innerhalb der Zellen */
  margin: 0; /* Kein Abstand um die Zellen herum */
  border: 1px solid #ddd; /* Dünne Rahmen um Zellen, optional */
  font-size: 0.8em !important;
  word-wrap: break-word; /* Automatisches Umbrechen von Wörtern */
  hyphens: auto; /* Automatische Trennung von Wörtern */
}

Please let me know if it is working well for you.

All the best

[drbap]

Please check plugin version 1.1.1. File size column content should be aligned to the right.

Thanks for the suggestion.

All the best

[merlinuwe]

Thank you very much for the css help, it works perfect.

Yes, I see, the column "Size" is right aligned, now.

[merlinuwe]

Idea: The files in "Images", "Audios", "Videos" and "Other" can have many different formats. How do you think about grouping them or show their file extensions?

[drbap]

Idea: The files in "Images", "Audios", "Videos" and "Other" can have many different formats. How do you think about grouping them or show their file extensions?

Interesting idea. Sure, I like the idea. But it will take more time and thought. I was thinking about creating a specific view for images, audios, videos and others (Other category). In that view, we could see the available file formats of those categories. But the problem is the other category... a huge number of possible file formats (maybe add the most commonly used ones).

[drbap]

Maybe add another button next to the one of images, to call the specific view for images.

[merlinuwe]

Maybe add another button next to the one of images, to call the specific view for images.

And in that view one can see and call the media. ;-)

[drbap]

Plugin upgrade version 2.0.0.

New features:

• Hotkeys open dashboard and open navigator.
• Excluded file extensions functionality.
• Excluded folders functionality.
• Select custom colors -> files and piechart (all available file categories).
• Colored files in dashboard and navigator views (toggle).

Some features will take more time to test and implement, but they are still on my list to implement.

I hope you enjoy.

All the best

[merlinuwe]

Yes, I like them, especially the color enhancements.