Pin Tab Guard

An Obsidian plugin that protects your pinned tabs from being accidentally closed or unpinned.

Problem

By default in Obsidian, pinned tabs can be unpinned or closed by:

• Pressing Cmd/Ctrl+W on a pinned tab (unpins it)
• "Close all other tabs" (closes pinned tabs too)
• "Close tab group" (closes pinned tabs too)

This can be frustrating if you use pinned tabs to keep important notes always open.

Solution

Just install and enable — no configuration needed.

This plugin guards the following built-in commands:

Command	Guarded behavior
Close current tab (Cmd/Ctrl+W)	Pinned tab → does nothing
Close all other tabs	Only closes non-pinned tabs
Close tab group	Only closes non-pinned tabs; if all tabs are pinned, does nothing

Disabling the plugin restores all original behaviors.

Note: This plugin guards commands triggered by hotkeys and the command palette. Closing a tab via the right-click context menu bypasses the command system and is not affected.

Installation

From Community Plugins

1. Open Settings → Community plugins → Browse
2. Search for "Pin Tab Guard"
3. Click Install, then Enable

Manual

1. Download main.js and manifest.json from the latest release
2. Create a folder pin-tab-guard in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory
3. Copy the downloaded files into that folder
4. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins