Obsidian plugin · 1.5.3
Card Workspace captures ideas the moment they arrive, then brings folders, tags, properties, backlinks, outgoing links, and card boxes into a readable card stream beside your editor. Gather context, shape a working view, and bring what matters into the note you’re writing.
Capture
Catch the thought before it slips away.
Open quick input from the navigation header, the command palette, or a global shortcut that works from any app. Each draft is a small window that stays on top: write the note, add a title, tags, and properties, pick a folder and card boxes, then press Ctrl/Cmd+Enter. For notes you write again and again, keep templates in navigation with the date and time filled in.
- Floating windows
- Global shortcut
- Tags + properties
- Send to card boxes
- Templates
Gather
Start with the structure your vault already has.
Choose a folder, include its subfolders when useful, then narrow the card stream with tags or frontmatter properties. Switching filter types replaces the previous selection, keeping the active view easy to follow. Drag folders to move or reorder them, and arrange tags and properties in the order you think in.
- Folder scope
- Include subfolders
- Tags or properties
- Drag to reorder
Recognize
Spot a note — or any file — at a glance.
Markdown cards show the first local image embedded in the note, image files show their own thumbnail, and Canvas and Excalidraw files appear as small diagrams. Keep images as a right-side thumbnail or full width below the title, crop them or show them whole, and choose whether PDFs, audio, video, and other files join the stream.
- Right thumbnail
- Below title
- Canvas + Excalidraw
- Images, PDF, media
Make it yours
Cards that look the way you work.
Choose default cards, a minimal outline, list rows, flat color blocks, or a left accent bar, then set the font size and spacing. Color individual cards with eight backgrounds that adapt to light and dark themes, and mark folders, tags, and notes with any Lucide icon or emoji.
- 5 card styles
- 8 theme colors
- Lucide + emoji icons
- Font size + density
Keep context
Read the link graph beside the note that gives it meaning.
Open the backlinks or outgoing links of the active note. Cards are ordered by how often they reference it, and each backlink shows the passages that cite it; click one to open the citing note at that line. Let the source follow the editor, or pin it while you look around.
- Backlinks + outgoing links
- Sorted by references
- Citing passages
- Click to jump
- Pin source
Search locally
Find the passage, not just the filename.
Search the current folder, card box, outgoing links, or backlinks with a local full-text index. Each card shows short excerpts around its hits with the matches highlighted, plus a hit count; click an excerpt to open the note at that passage. Recent queries stay in the search history, and vault content never leaves your device.
- Current source only
- Hit excerpts
- Click to jump
- Search history
- Local index
Reframe
Bring useful context into the note you’re writing.
Drag a Markdown card into the editor and drop it at the cursor. Insert a wikilink, an embed, the note body, or its title and body—choosing each time or setting a default. Turn on heading drag to bring in a single section instead of the whole note, or drop a card into Canvas or Excalidraw to place it as a file.
- 01Wikilink
- 02Embed
- 03Content
- 04Title + content
Organize
Turn a useful view into a reusable workspace.
Save the current folder, tag, or property view as a card box, and matching notes keep appearing as the vault changes. Add or remove individual notes, then give each box its own sort, grouping, and pins. The source files stay where they are.
Use a box for research topics, long-running projects, reading lists, or a snapshot of linked notes.
Drag or act in bulk
Organize a set of notes as deliberately as one.
Drag cards onto a folder to move them, a tag to add it, a property value to set it, or a card box to collect them. In bulk mode, click to select cards, Shift-click a range, or select the whole view, then drag the selection onto navigation or use the toolbar: move, tag, set properties, change card-box membership, color, merge after checking a live preview, or delete.
- Drag onto navigation
- Click to select
- Shift-select a range
- Select all
- Move
- Add / remove tags
- Set / remove properties
- Add / remove from box
- Background color
- Merge with preview
- Delete
Built for daily use
The small controls that keep a workspace moving.
Card Workspace stays compact, predictable, and close to Obsidian’s own file model.
- 01
Arrange the stream
Sort, group by folder, tags, tasks, or properties, and pin the notes you need within each group.
- 02
Create in context
New notes inherit the selected tags and properties; create one inside a card box and it joins the box.
- 03
Return quickly
Favorite folders, files, tags, and card boxes, reveal the active note’s folder, and expand or collapse every section at once.
- 04
Tidy the navigation
Hide the sections and items you don’t use, and keep tags safe: renames and deletes update notes, filters, favorites, and card-box rules.
- 05
Preview or open your way
Hover-preview a note, or open it in the current tab, a new tab, a split, or a window.
- 06
Local and responsive
Virtualized cards keep large sources quick to scan; search, indexing, and file operations never leave your device.
Turn scattered notes into a working understanding.
Browse by structure, filter by meaning, follow connections, and keep the result beside the note you are writing.