Navigate to Neighbouring Files

This Obsidian Plugin adds navigational commands that lets you quickly navigate to neighbouring files.

Use Case

• Navigate to the next weekly from 2023-W17 to 2023-W18
• Navigate to the next daily from 2023-04-31 to 2023-05-01
• Navigate to the next file from A4 to A5

obsidian-neighbouring-files.webm

Features

The sort order for the default command is configurable in the plugin settings.

Default Commands:

• Navigate to next file
• Navigate to prev file

Specific Commands:

• Navigate to next file (alphabetical)
• Navigate to prev file (alphabetical)
• Navigate to next file (creation timestamp)
• Navigate to prev file (creation timestamp)
• Navigate to next file (modified timestamp)
• Navigate to prev file (modified timestamp)

Supported Sorting Modes:

• Alphabetical: Ordered by file names. (default)
• By Modification Timestamp: Based on the last modified date.
• By Creation Timestamp: Based on the file creation date.

Configuration

Configure a hotkey to trigger the commands.

Or use the obsidian-vimrc-support Plugin to map more useful hotkeys such as gn or gp (Caveat: This only works when the editor mode is on).

Example .obsidian.vimrc.

" navigation to neighbouring files
exmap next_file obcommand neighbouring-files:next
exmap prev_file obcommand neighbouring-files:prev
exmap next_file_alphabetical obcommand neighbouring-files:next-alphabetical
exmap prev_file_alphabetical obcommand neighbouring-files:prev-alphabetical
exmap next_file_created obcommand neighbouring-files:next-created
exmap prev_file_created obcommand neighbouring-files:prev-created
exmap next_file_modified obcommand neighbouring-files:next-modified
exmap prev_file_modified obcommand neighbouring-files:prev-modified
nmap gn :next_file<cr>
nmap gp :prev_file<cr>