Note Status for Obsidian

Track the status of your notes with a powerful, customizable status management system. Mark notes as active, completed, on hold, or create your own custom workflows.

Features

• 📋 Status Assignment: Mark notes with workflow statuses
• 🎯 Multi-Status Support: Assign multiple statuses per note
• 📁 File Explorer Icons: Visual indicators in the file tree with configurable positioning
• 🧭 Status Bar Integration: View current status at a glance with custom unknown status icons
• ⬇️ Toolbar Dropdown: Change statuses quickly from the editor
• 📊 Status Pane: Dedicated view organizing notes by status with command palette access
• ⚡ Batch Operations: Update multiple files simultaneously
• 🎨 Custom Statuses: Define and reorder your own statuses with arrow controls
• 🧩 Template-Based Filtering: Scope statuses by note templates for better organization
• 🔧 Full Customization: Control how and where statuses appear
• 🚀 Performance: Optimized for large vaults (40k+ notes tested)

Quick Start

Install

1. Obsidian → Settings → Community plugins
2. Search "Note Status" → Install → Enable

First Use

1. Open any note
2. Click the ❓ icon in toolbar
3. Select a status (e.g., "active")
4. Status appears in status bar and file explorer

Example Workflows

Personal Knowledge Management

💡 idea → 📝 draft → ✏️ editing → ✅ completed → 📦 archived

Project Management

📋 backlog → 🚦 ready → 👨‍💻 inDevelopment → 🧪 testing → 🚀 live

Academic Research

🔍 research → 📑 outline → ✏️ draft → 🔬 review → 📚 final

Documentation

For Users

• 📚 Quick Start Guide - Get running in 5 minutes
• 📖 User Manual - Complete feature documentation
• ⚙️ Configuration Guide - Settings and customization
• 🚀 Performance Tuning - Optimize for large vaults

For Developers

• 🏗️ Architecture Overview - Plugin structure and design
• 🔧 Development Setup - Contributing guide

Reference

• 📝 Frontmatter Format - Technical specification

Data Format

Statuses are stored in note frontmatter:

---
obsidian-note-status:
    - HelloWorld
    - draft
---
# Your note content

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See 🔧-Development-Setup for details.

Support the Development

If you find this plugin useful and would like to support its development, you can make a donation through my PayPal account. Any contribution is greatly appreciated and helps me continue improving the plugin!

PayPal: https://paypal.me/aleixsoler