Feature requests for this AMAZINGLY USEFUL plug-in

[autonomygaps]

I love this plug-in. This is a total game-changer! It facilitates a workflow in which I can Wiki-wrap a key term when I'm writing or reviewing text in Obsidian, without stopping to flesh out a new note but with the confidence that there is a way to periodically review the "open loops" of "non-existent" files that look at later. The graph view lets you do this, in a way, but this is so much faster and clearer.

Two feature requests, related to the fact that I currently have hundreds of dangling links:

1. Folding by folders, like a bulleted outline, so that you can focus on the dangling links in a particular folder.
2. Sorting by Date Modified, Date Created, and Note Title. (Current it seems to be alpha order, but first by folder)

[autonomygaps]

Referring to an offer to help, on the Obsidian Discord channel: That would be much appreciated! The developer of this plugin is active on github, but has barely touched it since launching it in Nov '20. Most of the feature requests have to do with filtering, and that should the priority, perhaps with Obsidian query syntax. Of course, it would be ideal to have the options found in the Obsidian "backlinks" pane: sort, collapse, context, and filter. But filtering would already be huge. The problem is when Dangling Links lists hundreds of results. (Also it seems impossible to copy-paste the results, which was going to be my kludge.)

[flip-md]

Hey @graydon - thanks for this great plugin! I do have a couple of features I would like to see in this plugin (and from discussions it seems others do, too), and would like to inquire about how you would like to proceed here. I can either start forming pull requests against your repo or fork/rewrite your plugin and keep on working from there. Do you have any preference here?

[graydon]

Oh hi @flip-md ! Sorry, just been busy. Um, I guess there are two implied questions here:

• Will I accept PRs? Very likely! Unless they destroy the existing functionality, make a mess of the code or require a lot of time/energy to integrate (it's very little code anyway) I'm usually happy to accept contributions to anything I've written, publish updates, adjust URLs and READMEs, etc.
• Will I allocate more time than just "PR integration & bare-bones maintenance" to work on adding new features? Maybe. Depends on the usual factors: how much I need the feature myself, how hard it is, and how much time I have free. At the moment the plugin is meeting my own needs, I have literally forgotten everything I learned to write the plugin in the first place (I'm not a typescript or even frontend dev at all), and I have exceptionally little free time this month, so at present this is unlikely. But I might be able to scrape some time up in another month or two.

Hope that answers your question! Glad it's useful to someone.

[flip-md]

@graydon thank you for the fast response! That is all I needed to hear, I will start working on it soon. I think nobody is in a hurry, your plugin served us well for half a year now. Have a good one, see you on my PR :)

[graydon]

Thanks @flip-md for handling the first part of this issue (grouping/folding) and asc/desc alpha sort order. I've split out the residual issue of date sorting as a secondary issue (#8), and am closing this one.

[autonomygaps]

Makes sense. Thanks for the great work on this! Having collapsable folders make a world of difference for me.