# Obsidian - Folder Notes (Lost Paul) ![[images/Obsidian-Folder-Notes-Lost-Paul.webp]] [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsWk5cu9BwI) · 5:19 · Josh Plunkett · 2024-03-30 ## Outline ### 00:00 Introduction to folder notes - Josh has seen a lot of Discord feedback that people's folder notes have stopped working. - Historically most people used **AidenLx's Folder Note** plugin together with the **Folder Note core** plugin. It hasn't been updated in about a year, and Obsidian keeps changing, so it is breaking. - His advice is to uninstall both. A fix exists on GitHub if you really want to stay with AidenLx's version, but switching is just as easy. ![[images/Obsidian-Folder-Notes-Lost-Paul-t0050.webp]] ### 01:03 Installing the new plugin - Search Community Plugins for **Folder Notes by LostPaul**. It had been updated 10 days before recording and was already getting download numbers similar to the old plugin. - Install, enable, and read the documentation and options. - Josh hasn't spent much time in the settings. The one that matters to him is the key/click combination for creating a folder note, because he prefers making folder notes manually. - **01:40** There's an option to automatically create a folder note whenever you create a folder, if you want every folder to have one. ![[images/Obsidian-Folder-Notes-Lost-Paul-t0120.webp]] ### 01:57 What are folder notes? - A normal folder can hold notes, but you can't write in the folder itself. - With the plugin, Ctrl+click the folder and it becomes a note you can write in. - **02:30** In the system file explorer, the plugin simply creates a note with the same name as the folder, inside that folder, and shows the folder as a link to it. The note really lives inside the folder. ![[images/Obsidian-Folder-Notes-Lost-Paul-t0220.webp]] ### 03:08 Practical use cases - His party folder (Deadly Depths) has an overview folder note with notes for each player character inside. - He uses folder notes as the high-level summary of whatever the folder represents: a continent or region, then city folders whose folder note describes the city, then sub-region folder notes, then key buildings. - This adds structure and depth so the folder layout means something for your data. ![[images/Obsidian-Folder-Notes-Lost-Paul-t0320.webp]] - **04:05** Migrating was just uninstall and reinstall for him with no issues. If you used a custom naming convention in AidenLx's plugin, you may have to do extra work. Keeping the default (note named the same as the folder) means the two plugins are compatible. - **04:40** Folder Notes by LostPaul is now his recommended plugin and on his core list; every vault he builds has it, and it's one of the first plugins he installs. - **05:10** Short and simple wrap-up, with Easter wishes for live viewers. ## Things mentioned ### Obsidian plugins - **Folder Notes** by LostPaul: free community plugin, the recommended replacement. Supports manual creation via a key plus click, or automatic creation for new folders. - **Folder Note** by AidenLx: free community plugin, unmaintained for about a year and now breaking. A GitHub fix exists. - **Folder Note core** plugin: used alongside AidenLx's plugin; Josh recommends removing it too. ### Tools and websites - [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/): free note-taking app. - [Obsidian TTRPG Tutorials](https://obsidianttrpgtutorials.com/): Josh's tutorial site. - [Official Discord](https://discord.com/invite/veuWUTm) and the [Obsidian TTRPG users Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/obsidianttrpgusers): community support. ### TTRPG examples - His **Deadly Depths** party folder, used as a folder-note example. - World structure examples: continents, regions, cities and key buildings. ## Bios - **Josh Plunkett**: Australian game master and creator of Obsidian TTRPG Tutorials, a YouTube channel and website teaching tabletop players and GMs how to run campaigns in Obsidian. - **LostPaul**: developer of the Folder Notes community plugin for Obsidian. - **AidenLx**: developer of the older Folder Note plugin that many Obsidian users relied on before it went unmaintained.