The Pane Relief plugin enhances Obsidian's tab and pane management, offering persistent tab history, tab movement controls, and improved navigation. It introduces features like browser-style tab navigation with hover previews, draggable history lists, and tab movement using shortcuts. Users can maximize active tabs, toggle a 'simple sliding panes' mode for horizontal scrolling, and lock focus to prevent sidebar panes from stealing cursor focus. Additional commands allow users to move between tabs, swap tab positions, and jump to specific tabs or windows. The plugin also integrates well with other plugins like Style Settings for customization and Custom Page Headers for better tab navigation. Its aim is to provide a more browser-like experience for users working with multiple tabs and windows in Obsidian.
Obsidian plugins tagged with #tab-history. There are 2 plugins in this collection.
- Rank 15 years ago by PJ Eby
- Rank 22 months ago by oxdc
The Vertical Tabs plugin replaces the default top tab row with a vertical tab list that stays readable when many notes are open. It adds grouping and organisation tools that make tab browsing easier across busy workspaces. The layout is aimed at note heavy sessions where titles become hard to scan in narrow horizontal tabs. It also includes per tab zooming, zen mode, a tab history browser and an extended keyboard tab switcher. Its advanced navigation system supports presets such as IDE mode, along with ephemeral tabs and automatic deduplication to control how notes open and stay open. Users can define their own navigation strategies too, which gives finer control over switching, focus and tab behaviour without changing the rest of the workspace layout.