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I love the idea of finally extending some keyboard control to the Obsidian UI

Could there maybe be a feature that automatically switches sidebar tabs based on which note you are in, e.g. based on yaml frontmatter or filepath of the note?

There could be tons of use cases for that like "in my atomic notes folder, open backlinks panel instead of outline panel" etc.

Cant install this plugin - Obsidian says 'plugin ID mismatch'

Hello @houcheng !!!!

I would like to share with you an idea about how we could enhance the usage of this plugin using keyboard to navigate inside the Sidebar

The FR is simple to explain: while using the commands to cycle in sidebar, we need a command/treatment to keep the focus on the sidebar while we are cycle.

In other words, when I use the commands from this plugin to cycle in sidebar, I lost the focus from the previous plugin.

Let me Explain

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Steps :

1 - Reveal File in Reveal Current File in Navigation Command to open the Sidebar an focus
2- Cycle in Left Sidebar command
3- Cycle in Left Sidebar command
4- Cycle in Left Sidebar command

As you can see, after step two I lost the focus on the Sidebar and I cant use the keyboard anymore

🆘I have to click in the sidebar to get the focus back

My Opinion about how to approach this

Since this behavior that I described above is an additional workflow from the standard (cycle sidebar keeping the focus on the active note) my suggestion is add this feature as a NEW COMMAND Focus on Sidebar

This way users could decide when is necessary to focus on sidebar to have a keyboard navigation or not. This would be the best scenario for all :)

Thanks for reading this !!!

I hope you like this idea. I really miss the opinion to use keyboard with my Sidebars 🙏

I wish you a fantastic day ☀️

Hello @houcheng !!!!

Thanks for the amazing plugin, I use sidebar a lot and its amazing to be able to cycle using the keyboard :)

MY FR is about a new command to dynamic cycle on the sidebar that is ACTIVE in the workspace.

My workflow

→ I use the left sidebar for File Explorer, Starred Files and Search;

→ I use the right sidebar for Tags and Backlinks

My right sidebar is ALWAYS open (active/visible) and I only open the Left Sidebar to Search.

This way, would be amazing for me to have a unique command to cycle between the active sidebar without worrying if is in the left or the right sidebar :)

Rules of Behavior for the Command

1️⃣ If the Right Sidebar is Active then Cycle in the Right Sidebar
2️⃣ If the Left Sidebar is Active then Cycle in the Left Sidebar
3️⃣ If the Right Sidebar AND the Left Sidebar is Active then Cycle in the Right Sidebar AND the Left Sidebar

Thanks for reading this ! I hope you like my idea

I wish you a fantastic day :)

First off, thank you for this! I would love for this functionality to be part of the product itself.

Can you add a reverse cycle order so we can go back and forth between two of sidebar tabs instead of having to go all of the way through them? You could make the reverse with hotkeys like
shift+ctl+[
shift+ctl+]
to mimic how other programs do the same kind of tab cycling.

Thanks!