Settings Sidebar Organizer

🗂️ Obsidian Settings Sidebar Organizer

Tame your plugin list. Group community plugins, rename them (alias), reorder them manually or automatically, compact the sidebar UI headers, and more...

🗿 Why?

Created because I had too many plugins and got lost in the sidebar; feedback welcome!

[!CAUTION] Experimental "DOM Hack": This plugin manipulates the Obsidian UI directly because there is no official API for the settings sidebar.

• Risk: If Obsidian updates their UI structure (CSS classes), this plugin might break or stop working until updated.
• Stability: It creates "proxy" buttons. When you click an item in a group, it programmatically clicks the real, hidden button.

✨ Key Features

1. 📂 Grouping & Organization

• Custom Folders: Create your own categories (e.g., "Design", "Automation").
• Multi-folder Support: Plugins can belong to multiple groups at once.
• Keyword Matching: Sorts plugins into groups based on keywords separated by commas (including spaces). Hover over a live-updating badge to see your matches on the fly (info about multi-folder presence, if plugin is disabled, if it has no ui, and more).
• "Ungrouped" Folder: Automatically catches any plugin that doesn't match your keywords so nothing gets lost (can be hidden).

2. ✏️ Aliases & Order

• Renaming (Aliasing): Rename plugins to save space or improve clarity. You can even give the same plugin multiple aliases in different groups if you want.
• Sorting Options: Sort your plugins inside each group alphabetically, or use drag & drop to manually order them exactly how you want them (you can also manually order the groups themselves).

3. 📝 Plugin Management & Notes

• Plugin Toggles: Enable or disable your plugins directly from the group configuration menu.
• Custom Notes: Add personal notes to any plugin (e.g., why you disabled it or what it does). Hover over the note icon or the plugin in the sidebar to read it.
• Single-File Interoperability: Keep your notes in sync with a standalone .md file for easy bulk editing. Supports custom paths, even inside hidden system folders like .obsidian/plugins/Notes.md.

4. 📉 Compact & Clean UI

• Compact Mode: Hides the large "Core plugins" and "Community plugins" tabs. It moves them to small ⚙️ icons in the section headers to improve clarity.
• Collapsible Headers: Allows you to fold the main "Options", "Core plugins", and "Community plugins" sections.
• Collapse by Default: Option to automatically collapse all groups each time you reopen the settings menu (instead of saving exactly how you left them).

📦 Installation

Method 1: Obsidian site (the fastest)

1. Go to https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/settings-sidebar-organizer.
2. Click Add to Obsidian.
3. Click Install, then Enable.

Method 2: Inside Obsidian

1. Open Obsidian and go to Settings > Community plugins > Browse.
2. Search for Settings Sidebar Organizer.
3. Click Install, then Enable.

Method 3: Manual

1. Download main.js, styles.css, and manifest.json.
2. Create folder .obsidian/plugins/settings-sidebar-organizer/.
3. Paste files and reload Obsidian.

Method 4: BRAT

1. Install BRAT from the Community Plugins store.
2. Go to Settings > BRAT > Add Beta plugin.
3. Paste this repo URL: https://github.com/CyrylSz/obsidian-settings-sidebar-organizer.
4. Click Add Plugin.

⚙️ How to use

Everything is configured via Settings > Settings Sidebar Organizer:

1. Create Group: Click + Add Group.
2. Assign Plugins: Type keywords (comma-separated) in the "Keywords" box.
3. Fine-tune: Click the Gear Icon (⚙️) next to a group to:
   • Set an Alias (rename).
   • Reorder items manually via drag & drop or Sort them alphabetically.
   • Toggle plugins on/off.
   • Write Notes for your plugins.