On iOS/iPadOS, Obsidian freezes and restarts when I create a new file. The new file is successfully created but apparently not indexed because it doesn't appear in the Quick Switcher recent list.

Disabling Waypoint eliminates the problem.

EDIT: I recently turned Waypoint back on so I could add a file list to a note, and found I couldn’t do it. Each time I added the Waypoint comment, Obsidian froze. Reinstalling the plugin didn’t help (I disabled it and restarted Obsidian before reinstalling).

Maybe a duplicate of #7, but it's a slightly different feature. It would be great to support folder notes that are outside of their folder. Eg:

- a/
  - b.md
  - c.md
- a.md <-- folder note

It's described in this help doc: https://github.com/aidenlx/alx-folder-note/wiki/folder-note-pref

Waypoint needs unit tests badly, mainly with the getFileTreeRepresentation function.

Example a folder note index:

- [[Main Folder]]
  - [[Simple Note]] 

I create a folder with a name, example "Sub Folder". Main Folder note update normally.

- [[Main Folder]]
  - [[Simple Note]]
  - Sub Folder

I create Sub Folder's folder note with click the folder by key in the Folder Note extension.

But backlinks don't update in Main Folder's folder note.

- [[Main Folder]]
  - [[Simple Note]]
  - Sub Folder

%%Waypoint %% cannot put that feature in the template because it runs automatically and generates a markdown.

Waypoints sort backlinks by document names. It would be great to have the option to sort the backlinks by creation date, modified date, or by various properties or manually.

I would like to use waypoint in place of zootelkeeper, but I depend on Zootelkeepers' indexing of .docx, pdf, and other file formats. Could this be enabled in waypoint? Some sort of way to indicate the filetype beyond an extension (i.e. by setting emoji or icons) would be excellent as well, but more minor :)

Hiya there,

I'd like to hide the note holding the Waypoint, from the list of Waypoints.

E.g. the page contains itself, as a waypoint, and I'd like to hide that.

Can you add option to show automatically TOC of the file? Not just folder structure. Expanding the by this feature the plugin can really become the waypoint! Thanks for plugin

Waypoint links an incorrect file that are located in root folder when I have files have same titles.
For example, in Folder note "Folder-A" Waypoint would link "root/File-1" instead of "root/Folder-A/File-1".

Zoottelkeeper use pipe to solve this problem, discussion about the issue here

Link would be like this in this way
[[Folder-A/File-1 | File-1]]

I really love the way this plugin works, so I hope that Waypoint have 'definitive path link'.
Sorry if there is any intention not to use definitive link but file name.
Thanks for your time!

Noticed this earlier today. Happens consistently for every file renamed.

Generated waypoints will sort things like "10 - October" above "2 - February". Preferred ordering would be akin to the sorting in the Obsidian file tree.

currently, folder noter are emphasized: [[folder note]]

it would be nice to have the option in settings to disable the emphases

Thank you for making this great extension!

I think it would make sense to have a command that simply inserts %% Waypoint %% at the current cursor position. I keep forgetting the exact syntax and have to look it up in the plugin's settings just to type it out manually.

I had this plugin in my backlog of plugins to try. I was wondering, why is this better than using tags?

Well, the README addresses that. But seems unaware that nested tags do exist (#this/is/nested). Not to mention, 'manually' adding a tag is similar to 'manually' moving notes into folders or searching+selecting folders to create notes in.

Hi, recently I notice that my waypoint where not update. I when I delete one and tried to recreate it I receive this message %% Error: Cannot create a waypoint in a note that's not the folder note. For more information, check the instructions [here](https://github.com/IdreesInc/Waypoint) %% although I used to have one in that folder note. Also, I couldn't create new ones, I always receive the same message, no matter what folder I try.

It would be nice to have an option with a dropdown menu allowing to choose how to have the notes visualized in the waypoint lists, with three options: title, first alias, fist heading.
This may be useful in many use cases, but very useful oor those who name their notes with a numeric and/or hierarchical notation, and then change the displayed name using plugins (such as Froint Matter Title).

So for example a note like this:

TitleOfTheNote

Aliases:

• Alias1
• Alias2

Heading1

Test

Heading2

Other Text

could be shown in the Waypoint list, according to the choice in the Options, as:

[[TitleOfTheNote]] or [[TitleOfTheNote|Alias1]] or [[TitleOfTheNote|Heading1]]

When we add a descendant directory, there is a non-active bold link to it that appears. That's right, because the folder is empty.
Then, if we create the new folder note inside this folder, the link to it is still inactive.

Is there a reason why there is an empty line before %% End Waypoint %% since there isn't one after begin waypoint?

I suspect this is true for other special characters, but I had a file that somehow has a backquote {`) in it. Waypoint just used the filename and hence all the names after that in the folderindex were not clickable. Perhaps you should strip out (regex you create and allow user to voerride), or in the index you correct this by using the URL type escape (%xx) or something

I was looking for an automated MOC for quite some time and your plugin is absolutely amazing. To make it even better, more options for WikiLinks would be nice.

WikiLinks can use 3 types of links: shortest, relative or absolute path. Currently it's always shortest path. It would be great if you could add the ability to change it to relative or absolute path.

And also it would be awesome to have an option to insert the first alias of a note as alias of the WikiLink, like so: [[path/to/note|Note Alias]]
Without the alias, the link shows the complete path, which is pretty redundant.

I don't know if any of this is rather easy or highly complicated, but it would be great to have that functionality. Thanks a lot in advance.

Great plugin! For those of us who use Obsidian Publish, it would be great if the plugin allowed for the creation of a waypoint at the root folder of the vault, because that could then be used as a ToC/full index for the landing page of the published site.

Now it's like this:

Projects

• Celeste
  • [[Celeste Video Script]]
  • [[Celeste]]
• [[Projects]]

According to me, it would be less messy and more efficient like this:

[[Projects]]

• [[Celeste]]
  • [[Celeste Video Script]]

Great plugin, BTW!

Thanks for your helpful plugin.

I have an issue with syncing. It produces sync-conflicts with Syncthing (latest).

I guess, that a tmp file is the cause. So I added

'(?d)(?i)*.md.tmp`

to exclude these files from syncing.

Is this all I can do to solve the issue? (If so, could you please give a hint in the documentation?)

When I add a Waypoint to a Folder Note it lists all the notes, but some of the links are not to the actual note, but to notes that do not yet exist. Why is that? The notes exist. Why isn't Waypoint linking to them?

I use the folder "Archive" to put all archived contents, and I don't want any of the waypoints to include this directory if it is present. It'd be cool to exclude paths by regex or strings.

Thanks for the cool plugin!

I lint my notes for consistency and use spaces, not tabs for indentation. I'd like this plugin to be consistent with this. Maybe it could read what the core editor settings (Use tabs, Tab size) are set to and follow that, or have an option where I can adjust it manually.

Thanks for your plugin! It's fantanstic !

I wonder whether we can customize the prefix of the created list node like below :

%% Begin Waypoint %%

• [[folder_name]]
  • Children:: [[file1]]
  • Children:: [[file2]]
  • Children:: [[file3]]

%% End Waypoint %%

So that Waypoint can work with other excellent graph view plugins such as excalibrain perfectly! That make sense a lot !

Hello! I just installed this plugin, but it fails to load when I try to enable it. I get the following error in the console:

app.js:1 Plugin failure: waypoint SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<'
    at eval (<anonymous>)
    at app.js:1:1444405
    at e.<anonymous> (app.js:1:1444467)
    at app.js:1:127354
    at Object.next (app.js:1:127459)
    at s (app.js:1:126198)

I started using Waypoint as a way to group different subjects together via folders etc. I was able to connect the primary subject to every note within it. Then connect a sub-subject by adding a waypoint into a sub-folder, etc. This made it so in graph view, I could see all the notes connected to one subject, then onto all the same notes that were also included in a sub-subject and which notes were not. And vise versa, I could hover over one note, and see all the subjects connected to it.
However, this made it so that the waypoint of a higher folder, did not update new notes in lower folders, due to the "nesting". And if I deleted a higher folder note and refreshed it, it would then only show the folders, not the notes inside each folder. This then defeated the point of what I wanted.
Is it possible to make the "nesting" part optional so that I can have those "unnecessary" which are quite necessary for the type of logic notes I'm doing?
Thank you for your time!

Our MOCs would look much cleaner If we can use inline block instead of percentage as Waypoint flag.

Is there a reason why the plugin uses this weird syntax instead of using standard code blocks?

I'd like to see a command added that would go through my vault and refresh all Waypoints. This is sometimes necessary and I don't know why, but fairly often I come across a folder note that is improperly indexed. For example, perhaps I modified the files outside of Obsidian or who knows what the reason is. But I'd like to be able to say "rescan my vault and update all Waypoints."
Thanks!

If a CSS class (for example, "contains-waypoint") were added to waypoint-containing folders in file explorer, then users would have the option of using a CSS snippet to visually differentiate waypoint-containing from non-waypoint-containing folders.

I think there should be a setting option where we can ignore some folders. For example, we don't want to include the attachments folder in waypoints.

Folders should have a higher priority and should be listed ahead of the file list rather than alphabetically

Great idea for an Obsidian plugin. Love the control it affords when it comes to when to add the triggering tag. However, I would like to use the index file method of Folder Note, where the folder note does not have the same name as the folder, but instead has a common name across all folder (e.g. about.md). I would be fantastic if Waypoint could support this functionality.

Hi and thanks for the useful plugin.
Is there a way to prevent the folder note from referencing itself? For example in the list below, I do not need "Issues" to appear in the list of issues.

After the inside and outside note were added (which I really hoped for, moving a big project dictionary to Obsidian, and happy that Waypoint exists and makes perfect alphabetization), there are some inconsistencies in Waypoint shows subfolders.
In an folder note that is inside the folder, the subfolders are shown as follows:

- [[ἀλλοίωσις]]
	- **ἄλλος**
	- [[ἄλλο ἄλλου]]
	- [[ἄλλος καὶ ἄλλος]]
	- [[πρὸς ἄλλο καὶ παρ' ἄλλου]]
- [[ἄλλος]]
- [[ἄλογος]]

The folder note is duplicated, showing once as a folder which is not a link, and below as a link to the note

In an outside note, they show as follows, without nested notes:

- [[ἀλλοίωσις]]
- **[[ἄλλος]]**
- [[ἄλογος]]

What I hope for, would look like that:

- [[ἀλλοίωσις]]
	- **[[ἄλλος]]**
	- [[ἄλλο ἄλλου]]
	- [[ἄλλος καὶ ἄλλος]]
	- [[πρὸς ἄλλο καὶ παρ' ἄλλου]]
- [[ἄλογος]]

HI there, great plugin. I have an idea for a feature which would add some extra power to your plugin. I could use this feature quite a bit.

I propose that you add a setting to your plugin, which adds a ! symbol to the front of the [[Note]] link that it currently does. By adding the !, it turns it into a dynamic embed of that file.

This feature would allow the user to generate a glossary of the current directory, peering into the contents of each file. This could be very useful for directories with smaller/quick notes (i.e. a slipbox).

There is already a plugin that technically does this (called Auto Glossary) however it does not automatically generate the content live, so the user must regenerate the page manually. By adding this feature to your plugin, and it being dynamically generated and updated, it solves all of my needs.

Ideally this would be triggered as a command, although I see your current methodology is to use the %% commenting, so at the least this feature could be added as a setting. If you do transition to using commands, this would be good for that.

Thanks

When creating a Waypoint file, the list references itself. Is there a way to prevent this? For example, assuming I have the following:

Spice (folder)

• Jessica (file)
• Leto (file)
• Paul (file)
• Spice (file) <--- Waypoint

The Waypoint file, "Spice," would list the following:

• Jessica
• Leto
• Paul
• Spice

You don't need the file to link to itself.

"Say your folders go from A -> B -> C. If you put a waypoint in the folder note of folder A, it'd include every file within folders A, B, and C. But if you create another waypoint in folder B, the first waypoint would only link to that folder note."

This is a great idea, but it's not so flexible.
As it is now, if I want to have a index on B, but still show all content of B in the index on A, I can't.
So, what about having two different flags, one that only generate the index (for example %% Index %%), and one that generates the index and actually marks a waypoint (for example %% Waypoint %%)?
In this way, I could put %% Waypoint %% in A and %% Index %% in B, and get what I wanted: index both in A and in B, and the index in A showing also all the content of B :)

Not sure how the automatic checking of updates works with Waypoint, or if it's possible to make this a future addition. But it would be nice to be able to put Waypoints inside a Callout to make it a collapsible part of the folder note and it still detect changes made in the folder structure. Right now it can be moved inside of a callout to keep the static index but can't update for any changes made.

Consider the following structure:

notes
+- A
|  `- Test
+- B
|  `- Test
`- C
   `- Test

Assuming the directories A, B, C have folder notes. Then adding %% Waypoint %% to each folder note, will generate [[Test]] in all of them, instead of [[A/Test]], [[B/Test]], and [[C/Test]].

My current workaround is to disable "Use WikiLinks" in Waypoint's settings.

One of the best aspects of Waypoint is it focus on maintaining portability by writing links to the folder note markdown file. A big step in that direction would be to have the option to write markdown links instead of wikilinks. Ideally, the plugin would use the setting described under Obsidian's "Files & Links" settings page (specifically, "New link format", "Use [[Wikilinks]]" and "Detect all file extensions" and adjust its behavior accordingly. That would afford maximum portability and allow the behavior of Waypoint to stay consistent with the rest of a user's vault. Thanks so much for writing this.

I'm fairly new to using the Waypoint plugin, and already finding I'd love to include a short except from a note into the generated waypoint. Something like:

%% Begin Waypoint %%
- [[Dagger]] - Programmable CI/CD Pipelines using _real_ programming languages.
%% End Waypoint %%

and in the front matter of the target page, something like:

summary: Programmable CI/CD Pipelines using _real_ programming languages.

or

summary-source: first-paragraph

Has anyone suggested/thought about something similar before?

If I add a folder note in folder A (with waypoint added) and there is a folder B in folder A, when folder B creates a folder note with waypoint added, the waypoint in the folder note in folder A will not be updated (although the setting "Stop Scan at Folder Notes" has been turned off).

And when a note is added to folder B, the waypoint in the folder note in folder B will be updated, but the waypoint in the folder note in folder A will not be updated.

This bug only appears when a waypoint is added to the folder note in folder B. If the folder note in folder B is only a blank note, there is no such bug

Thanks for this great plugin!
It would be very useful to have an option to change the way notes are listed, e.g. to sort them by creation date.