mikkovedru / breadcrumbs

Visualise a custom hierarchy in your Obsidian vault

Breadcrumb Trail

This plugin adds multiple new views to Obsidian.

The wiki has more in-depth info on the plugin than the outdated readme.

You can find the changelog here.

Basics

Breadcrumbs lets you add hierarchical metadata to your notes, then leverage that structure. Using and up (↑), same (→), and down (↓) relationship, you can add directional structure to your notes.

Matrix/List view

This view shows the current note's parents, siblings, and children in either of the following styles:

To open the view in your sidebar, run the command Breadcrumbs: Open View from the command palette.

Breadcrumbs Trail view

This view shows a trail of notes from the top of your vault down to your current note

To get this structure, the plugin requires that you use some type of metadata indicating the hierarchy of notes. For example, you may have a yaml field called parent, which links to the current note's "parent" note: parent: [[Parent Note]]. (You can also use inline Dataview fields parent:: [[Parent Note]]). Using this structure that you impose, you can use the breadcrumb trail to visualise the path back to your parent note.

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