Note Types

Note Types — Obsidian Plugin

Define custom note types in your vault. Each type gets creation commands, filtered file pickers, hover previews, styled wikilinks, and a sidebar widget — all driven by frontmatter.

Features

Note types
Define named types (e.g. Project, Person, Book) with a template, a save folder, and custom frontmatter fields. Each type registers two commands in the palette:

• Create new <Type> — opens a modal pre-filled with the type's fields, creates the file from the template, and inserts a [[wikilink]] if triggered from the editor.
• Find <Type> — opens a fuzzy picker scoped to files that match the type's frontmatter filters.

Note from selection
Select text in the editor, right-click (or use the editor menu), and choose Note from selection to create a typed note whose title is pre-filled with the selection. The selection is replaced with the new [[wikilink]].

Inline trigger
Set a single trigger character (e.g. @) in settings. Typing it in the editor opens a quick picker for any note type that has Show in trigger menu enabled.

Styled wikilinks
Enable Styled links on a note type to apply a CSS class (ffc-note-link) to every [[wikilink]] pointing at a file of that type — in both the editor and reading view. Pairs well with a CSS snippet.

Hover preview card
Enable Preview fields on a type and hovering a styled wikilink shows a popup card with those frontmatter values (and an optional image).

Filtered file commands
Create arbitrary command-palette commands that open a fuzzy picker showing only files whose frontmatter matches your filters (AND / OR, with equals, not_equals, contains, exists operators). Optionally restrict to specific file extensions (e.g. md, canvas).

Filtered Files Widget
A sidebar panel (left ribbon → Filtered files) with collapsible, drag-reorderable sections. Each section has its own filter rules, sort order, and optional result limit. Supports tag, frontmatter, path, and filename filters.

Installation

1. Copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css (if present) into <Vault>/.obsidian/plugins/filtered-file-commands/.
2. Reload Obsidian.
3. Enable Note Types under Settings → Community plugins.

Settings

Open Settings → Note Types to configure:

• Filtered File Commands — custom palette commands with frontmatter filters.
• Trigger key — single character for the inline note picker (@ recommended).
• Templates folder — path to your templates folder (leave blank to auto-detect from the core Templates plugin).
• Note Types — define, edit, and delete your note types.
• Filtered Files Widget — open the widget, set a display-name frontmatter key, or reset all sections.

Development

npm install
npm run dev      # watch mode
npm run build    # type-check + production bundle
npm run lint     # ESLint

Output artifacts (main.js) are written to the plugin root. See AGENTS.md for conventions.

License

MIT