Obsidian Another Quick Switcher Plugin

This is an Obsidian plugin which is another choice of Quick switcher. It offers various features, such as:

• Creating custom search commands (Custom searches)
• Customizing the hotkeys in the quick switcher to your preference
• Searching backlinks and moving them without leaving the keyboard (Backlink search)
• Moving a file to another folder (Move file to another folder)
• Searching regardless of the order in which tokens appear
• Not performing very fuzzy searches by default, but an option is available to enable them
• Searching considering prefix emoji
• Showing file names and directory names separately
• Revealing a folder in the file tree (Reveal a folder in the file tree)

⏬ 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

Sort priorities

You can use the following names as a Sort priorities.

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

File name fuzzy search

Landmark search

Star search

2 hop link search

Note

Queries enclosed in double quotes are searched as is

• "ho ge" matches only ho ge and does not match hoge.
• ho ge matches both ho ge and hoge.

A minus sign at the beginning excludes matched candidates

Example: Suppose there are three files:

• hoge.md
• hoge
• mdhoge

The input hoge -md will suggest only hoge.

Additionally, you can specify a custom string as the exclude prefix using the Exclude prefix setting.

<cd> means the current directory

If the path of the active file is "/usr/local/vault/notes", the query "<cd> obsidian" will be interpreted 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.

https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/obsidian-another-quick-switcher/assets/9500018/0ce0111a-7481-40a0-a49e-ab00a2f37b35

6. Link search

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

https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/obsidian-another-quick-switcher/assets/9500018/b31034e7-7ad7-4ab5-8294-6b4950efe224

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.

https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/obsidian-another-quick-switcher/assets/9500018/0b16c4f4-b071-4e05-9402-00ae2525e57c

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.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9500018/216806330-daf57b52-d8a4-42e3-9803-ba7d76a93319.mp4

For users who use earlier than v13.0.0

In v13, we removed Link search from Preset search commands. Please see #275 for details about this decision. If you need the previous Link search functionality, you can add it to Search commands with the configuration shown in the image below.

Open "Link search" configuration

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.

🖥️ 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

Set up

git config core.hooksPath hooks

Install dependencies

Bun is required.

bun i
bun dev

Release

Run Release Action manually.

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