Obsidian Home tab is an Obsidian plugin that adds a browser-like home default new tab with a search bar and a grid of starred files.
You can search any local file in your vault, both markdown notes and attachments.
This plugin is not meant to be a replacement for the default Quick switcher or any alternative one like Another quick switcher (from which I took inspiration), but rather a faster way to open a note or a file after opening a new tab.
By default, every new empty tab is automatically replaced with the Home tab view. You can disable this behavior in the settings and manually open a new Home tab through the command palette with the commands Home tab: Open new Home tab or Home tab: Replace current tab.
To easily find a file you can filter the search by using filters for the file type or the file extension.
You can activate a filter by writing the filter key (see table below) and pressing tab. To remove the filter press backspace.
The following filters are available:
| File type | File extension |
|---|---|
markdown |
md |
image |
png, jpg, jpeg, svg, gif, bmp |
video |
mp4, webm, ogv, mov, mkv |
audio |
mp3, wav, m4a, ogg, 3gp, flac |
pdf |
pdf |
canvas |
canvas |
You can embed the Home tab view in any note with options to show recent files, starred files, or only the search bar.
To embed the search bar to a note, you have to create a search-bar code block (see the following example).
To show only the search bar, without the title and the logo/icon, add (in a new line) only search bar.
To show the starred and recent files add, respectively, show starred files and show recent files.
For example, the following code block will render the search bar and the starred files.
```search-bar
only search bar
show starred files
```
If enabled, starred files are automatically displayed under the search bar.
By hovering the top right corner, you can unstar a file or change the displayed icon.
The plugin may not work with (or interfere with) other plugins that replace the new tabs with their custom view, such as the Obsidian-Surfing plugin.
The plugin is available directly from the Obsidian plugin browser.
Alternatively, you can install with BRAT by using the following links: https://github.com/olrenso/Obsidian-home-tab or olrenso/Obsidian-home-tab.
