Obsidian
A better file browser and calendar for Obsidian, inspired by Apple Notes, Bear, Evernote and Day One.
Notebook Navigator brings the polish of the apps you love to your vault, and keeps everything as local Markdown.
A modern, powerful and beautiful way to navigate your notes.
A visual way to browse your days, months and years.
Organize and track the progress of chapters, scenes and ideas, your way.
A refined way to browse your notes, wherever you work.
Dozens of features have landed since launch. Here are some of the highlights.
Daily to yearly notes with feature images, dots, and task indicators.
Drag and drop notes into any order, saved right in your frontmatter.
Feature images from the first picture, PDF page, YouTube link, or Excalidraw.
Navigate your vault by frontmatter properties in a full tree, just like tags.
Personalize folders, tags, properties, and files with colors and custom icons.
Filter by date, folder, extension, and tasks, with a one-key Omnisearch toggle.
Set word-count goals and custom group headers with live progress bars.
Unfinished tasks surfaced in the list, search, and calendar at a glance.
Turn folders into clickable notes, or open one as a live sidebar scratch pad.
Open your daily note or any file automatically when Obsidian launches.
Rename files, folders, tags, and properties in place with a single keystroke.
Daily, weekly, and monthly notes with full Templater template support.
Passion for coding
With a PhD in Software Development and decades of experience building products for companies like Apple, Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft, LEGO and Volvo Cars, a year ago I decided to see if I could push the boundaries of what users should expect from a modern note-taking application. After six months of planning and six more months of intense development, Notebook Navigator is finally ready for global release.
Most current note-taking apps like Apple Notes, Bear and Evernote seem to be stuck in old legacy frameworks and complex architectures, making it almost impossible for them to innovate with new features. It was time to create a brand new state-of-the-art note-taking experience that was built from the ground up for scalability, performance, and user experience. Something that could be built upon for years, if not decades.
When you use Notebook Navigator I hope you will experience something that has become very rare in the tech industry today: software that is so well-designed throughout that it feels like a natural extension of your brain. This is exactly how Notebook Navigator feels to me, and this is why I built it.
If you have feature suggestions, please post them in our wiki. And if you just want to say hi, you're very welcome to join our Discord server!
Notebook Navigator is free and open source. If you love using it, consider supporting development.
Notebook Navigator brings the look and feel of Apple Notes, Bear, and Evernote to Obsidian. You get visual note previews, automatic thumbnails, a dual-pane layout, and a photo calendar, all on top of your existing Markdown files. It's a popular way to switch to Obsidian without giving up the polished experience of those apps.
Yes. Notebook Navigator replaces Obsidian's default file explorer with a dual-pane, visual interface inspired by Apple Notes and Bear, complete with note previews, feature images, colors, and custom icons.
Yes. The built-in calendar shows your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly notes with feature images, so you can browse your journal visually, much like Day One.
Notebook Navigator is the most popular file explorer plugin for Obsidian, and one of the most popular Obsidian plugins overall, ranked #1 in the Files, Navigation, and Sidebar categories. It adds a dual-pane layout, tag and property browsing, a calendar, manual sorting, powerful search, and full mobile support, and it's free and open source.
No. Notebook Navigator is a file browser, not a replacement for your files. It never moves, renames, or reorganizes your notes, everything stays as standard Markdown, and uninstalling leaves your vault exactly as it was.
Yes. Notebook Navigator is completely free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license, and it works on desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux) and mobile (iOS and Android).
