All notable changes to Document Manager for Obsidian. Format based on Keep a Changelog.
🎉 Version 1.0.0 Initial Release
📅 December 18, 2025The first stable release of Document Manager for Obsidian!
✨ Features
📚 Document Organization
- Three view modes: Grid, List, Table
- Auto-generated thumbnails
- Full frontmatter support
- 1-5 star rating system
- Category & status organization
📁 Supported File Types
- 📝 Markdown (.md)
- 📕 PDF (.pdf)
- 📖 EPUB (.epub)
- 🖼️ Images (png, jpg, gif, webp, svg)
🔍 Filtering & Search
- Full-text search
- Filter by type, category, tags
- Filter by status, folder, rating
- Tag toggle with AND logic
📊 Sorting Options
- Title (A-Z / Z-A)
- Date Modified / Created
- File Type
- Category / Rating
🖼️ Cover Images
- Custom covers via frontmatter
- Auto thumbnail extraction
- Relative & absolute paths
- Configurable covers folder
🖱️ Context Menu
- Open / Open in new tab
- Edit properties
- Set cover & rating
- Copy path / Reveal in explorer
⚙️ Settings
- Display: View mode, thumbnail size, grid columns, show extension/word count/date
- Behavior: Auto-thumbnails, startup indexing, open in new tab, default sort
- Folders: Include/exclude folders, cover folder path
- Frontmatter: Customizable property names
- Categories & Statuses: Customizable filter options
🔧 Commands
Open Document Manager- Open the document browserReindex all documents- Force refresh document indexClear thumbnail cache- Clear cached thumbnails
🔧 Technical
- TypeScript with strict mode
- esbuild for fast builds
- Obsidian API integration
- In-memory document indexing
- Thumbnail caching system
- File watcher for live updates
🚀 Unreleased / Planned Coming Soon
🚀 Planned Features
- Drag-and-drop document organization
- Bulk operations (multi-select)
- Custom thumbnail upload
- Export document lists
- PDF thumbnail previews
- EPUB cover extraction
- Keyboard navigation
- Document templates
- Recent documents view
- Favorites/bookmarks
🔄 Improvements Under Consideration
- Performance optimization for large vaults (10,000+ files)
- Virtual scrolling for better performance
- Advanced search syntax (AND, OR, NOT)
- Search within document content
- Date range filtering
- File size filtering
- Batch metadata editing
- Custom sorting options
- Saved filter presets
📜 Version History
| Version | Date | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | 2025-12-18 | Initial release with Grid/List/Table views, filtering, sorting, thumbnails |
📦 Upgrade Notes
Version 1.0.0: This is the initial release. No upgrade steps required.
Fresh Installation: Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css → Create folder .obsidian/plugins/document-manager/ → Copy files → Reload Obsidian → Enable in Settings
🤝 Contributing
Found a bug? Have a feature request? We'd love to hear from you!