Tree View

Tree View

Create multiple editable file-explorer views that reference the vault's real file tree, without altering it.

What it does

Tree View adds two panes to Obsidian:

• Tag view — a live file tree computed from your notes' frontmatter tags, rooted at a tag you pick. Drag notes in, out, or between branches and the plugin rewrites the underlying frontmatter tags for you; rename a branch and every note under it is retagged. You can open several tag views at once, each rooted differently, in the sidebar or the main area. A tag view has no file of its own — its root tag is remembered by Obsidian's workspace, like any other tab.
• Tag browser — a read-only tree of every tag in the vault (a drop-in alternative to core's Tags pane). Clicking a tag opens or re-roots the tag view instead of running a global search.

Both panes mirror Obsidian's own File Explorer / Tags markup, so your active theme styles them with no extra CSS.

Commands

• Open tag view — reveal/create the sidebar tag view
• Open a new tag view in the main area — always a fresh pane
• Open tag browser — reveal/create the tag browser in the right sidebar

Install

Community plugins

Once approved: Settings → Community plugins → Browse, search for "Tree View", install, and enable.

BRAT (beta)

1. Install the BRAT plugin.
2. Run BRAT: Add a beta plugin for testing and enter https://github.com/biehenjia/tv.
3. Enable Tree View under Community plugins.

Manual

Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release and copy them into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/tree-view/, then enable the plugin.

Build from source

npm install
npm run build

npm run build type-checks with tsc and bundles src/main.ts into main.js via esbuild. Use npm run dev for a watch build.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.