[Feature Request] Indicate that a File is a Kanban Board in the File Explorer

[mgmeyers]

[Feature Request] Indicate that a File is a Kanban Board in the File Explorer

[nothingislost]

Whatever we use, we'd just want to be careful not to use anything that might conflict with user added frontmatter keys. I could see users possibly already using document-type.

view-type
view-type-tag
view-type-extension
document-type-tag
document-type-extension
registered-view-type
registered-document-type
custom-view
custom-view-type

🤷‍♂️ this is the hard part so if someone could just pick one, I'll do the rest :)

[mgmeyers]

Yeah, good point. file-explorer-type seems pretty unique and possibly more understandable to users. What do you think of that?

[mgmeyers]

This would be great. I'm not sure exactly how it would be accomplished, since we only know the files are kanbans from to the frontmatter key. Worth investigating, though.

[jokysatria]

I think it's better for a different plugin. So that functionality can be used for giving any kind label to a note.

[mgmeyers]

That's a great idea @jokysatria. I'm sure a lot of folks would appreciate such a plugin.

[nothingislost]

I could probably do this by patching the File Explorer's ItemDom.updateTitle() method but if we're going to go down this path, we should probably use a more standard frontmatter key. Maybe something like view-type: kanban? Or maybe view-type-tag? Whatever the value is would be what I added to the tag.

Are there any other plugins doing this sort of conditional view loading based on frontmatter values?

edit: Looks like Excalidraw also does this

[mgmeyers]

Yeah, not sure how many other plugins do this, but I'd be happy to output a more standard frontmatter key. I imagine everyday users would appreciate this, as well. What if the key was something like document-type: whatever?

[nothingislost]

file-explorer-type works for me