Last Month plugin for Obsidian

Provides a new left sidebar showing:

1. A list of all open tabs, allowing you to quickly switch and close them.
2. A list of all recent files in your vault, in date order, new at the top, grouped by weeks. You can set the date range between 1 and 6 months.

How to install

Download the latest last-month release, unzip it, and drop the folder into your {Obsidian Vault}/.obsidian/plugins folder. Edit the plugin folder name to remove the version number, e.g. -v.0.1.1, and then restart Obsidian. You will need to go to the Plugin Settings page in Obsidian and enable the plugin.

How to use

The interface is mostly intuitive and tries to follow the Obsidian standards.

Open tabs. Click on an open tab to switch to that one. You can also right click and choose other options, including Close.

Files (Notes) Click on a file to open it, by default this will be in the most recent tab like the normal File explorer sidebar. You can also right click for more options, like opening in a new window or split.

Creating links. You can drag and drop a file or tab onto a note to create a new link at the caret.

Options. At the top of the sidebar are four options:

1. Choose the date range, 1 to 6 months.
2. Refresh the view. It should normally stay in sync with any file, tab, or layout changes.
3. Navigate straight to the plugin settings page.
4. Expand or collapse all the week and open tab headings.

Available settings

1. Number of months: how many months to show in the listing.
2. Default open location: How to open a note, either a new tab, split, or new window.
3. Hide folders or files: add one or more regular expressions to hide certain folders or files you do not want to show in the sidebar list. The textbox below this shows the live results of the hide expressions, to quickly see if it is working and producing the result you want.

I personally find this site helpful to learn about and test regular expressions: RegExr: Learn, Build, & Test RegEx.