loom in obsidian

default hotkeys:

• Ctrl+Space - complete
• Ctrl+Alt+n - create child
• Alt+n - create sibling
• Alt+c - split in-range node at caret (<- this is poorly explained but useful! try it!)
• Ctrl+Alt+c - clone current node
• Alt+Backspace - delete current node
• Alt+Down - switch to next sibling
• Alt+Up - switch to previous sibling
• Alt+Left - switch to parent
• Alt+Right - switch to (most recently visited) child
• Alt+e - collapse/expand current node

the following commands don't have hotkeys by default:

• open loom pane
• delete current node's children
• delete current node's siblings
• (debug) reset state

buttons shown when hovering over a node in the loom pane:

• hoist (only show this node and its children)
• create sibling
• create child
• delete

to install, clone this repository into a directory in [vault]/.obsidian/plugins. in the plugin directory, run npm i and npm run build. you will need node.js 14 or higher. enable the plugin and set the openai api key in the Loom settings tab

for those new to obsidian: the loom ui, containing a tree of the selected note's nodes, is not open by default. to open it, you can either:

1. open the command palette with Ctrl+P, then search for and run the "open loom pane" command
2. open the right sidebar -- there is a toggle in the top right of the screen -- and switch to the loom tab*

*the tab looks like this:

for those on macos: a few default hotkeys -- Alt+n, Alt+c, and Alt+e -- are bound to special characters. at some point i will try to think of hotkeys that don't conflict with anything, but for now you can either:

1. disable macos's special character shortcuts, as explained here: https://superuser.com/questions/941286/disable-default-option-key-binding
2. rebind the loom hotkeys you want to use in the "Hotkeys" tab in settings