joriswvanrijn / obsidian-macos-last-tab

Obsidian MacOS Last Tab

This plugin alters the behavior of closing a last Obsidian tab to match similar behavior of other MacOS apps. Similar to e.g. VS Code, when the last tab is closed, the window will be closed (whilst Obsidian is kept running for faster startup).

Usage

• Install plugin
• Map CMD + W to the command Close current tab or close window (if last tab)

obsidian-macos-last-tab's Issues

[Feature Requests] Publish Plugin & Keep Vault Open & Double Tap CMD-W

Thanks for creating this plugin! Just got a chance to try it out and worked flawslessly. I have three feature requests; was wondering if you had thoughts on how they could be implemented.

1. It would be great if you could publish the plugin to the community marketplace whenever you get a chance! Dropping some instructions here in case anyone else has never manually installed an Obsidian plugin before. Run this following commands, then open Obsidian, go to Community Plugins, refresh the list, and enable this plugin. Then update the hotkey to CMD-W as mentioned in the README.

   git clone https://github.com/joriswvanrijn/obsidian-macos-last-tab.git
   cd obsidian-macos-last-tab
   
   npm run build
   mkdir obsidian-macos-last-tab
   mv main.js manifest.json obsidian-macos-last-tab/
   
   # update destination to match your obsidian vault location
   cp -R obsidian-macos-last-tab ~/Obsidian/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-macos-last-tab

2. To match macOS better, it would be great to have a setting to change behavior to first close the last tab normally and then pressing CMD-W again would close the window. A similar setting was implemented recently in Zed here: zed-industries/zed#11989

3. A setting to keep the vault open when the window is closed? This could be as simple as emulating CMD-H to hide the window instead of closing it entirely so that obsidian doesn't need to spend time loading the workspace into memory again. This is similar to other programs on macOS that keep running in the background when the window is closed with fast loading time when the window is re-opened.

Related Links:

• https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-should-close-the-window-when-the-last-tab-is-closed/66180/10
• https://forum.obsidian.md/t/close-obsidian-window-with-cmd-w-on-mac-leave-app-running-for-faster-launch/3552