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nathonius / obsidian-collapse-all

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What does the plugin do? #41

Open davidjroos opened 1 year ago

davidjroos commented 1 year ago

Just saw your update on Discord but (like a lot of plugins!) I’m not entire sure what it does from the documentation.

This plug-in is probably/possibly useful to lots of people but they won’t know because the rocs don’t really describe the problem being solved.

At a minimum some screenshots of without/with plug-in would help!

nathonius commented 1 year ago

Well screenshots wouldn't be too helpful since nothing changes visually. 😬 A while ago, before obsidian had a built-in way to collapse and expand all the folders in the file explorer, this plugin added a button to do that.

Then obsidian added that to core, so this plugin's usefulness was diminished. However, it still retained a few benefits over the official collapse/expand implementation, namely that it added commands to the command palette to collapse and expand. These could be bound to hotkeys.

So now I've reworked the plugin to use obsidian's internal collapse/expand functionality instead of my own, and add commands to access all those collapse and expand functions.

Hopefully that's a little clearer - I'll update the readme and plugin description to hopefully help people understand what this does now.

davidjroos commented 1 year ago

Well screenshots wouldn't be too helpful since nothing changes visually. 😬 A while ago, before obsidian had a built-in way to collapse and expand all the folders in the file explorer, this plugin added a button to do that.

Then obsidian added that to core, so this plugin's usefulness was diminished. However, it still retained a few benefits over the official collapse/expand implementation, namely that it added commands to the command palette to collapse and expand. These could be bound to hotkeys.

So now I've reworked the plugin to use obsidian's internal collapse/expand functionality instead of my own, and add commands to access all those collapse and expand functions.

Hopefully that's a little clearer - I'll update the readme and plugin description to hopefully help people understand what this does now.

Ah! Yes, and definitely a useful additional and I had no idea that it was something I'd like to be able to do, I love making keyboard shortcuts for interface navigation!