Quick Move

Moving a note in Obsidian means right-click → Move file to… → type the folder name, every time, even though most notes end up in the same handful of folders.

Quick Move puts a Move to… button in the note header, right next to the reading-view button. Click it and you get a menu of your folders, in your order. Pick one and the note moves.

Features

• Your own list of folders. Add them in settings, reorder them with the up/down arrows, and give long paths a short alias (Areas/Reading/2026 → Reading).
• Where the note is now is shown with a check mark and greyed out.
• Other folder… at the bottom of the menu searches every folder in the vault, for the occasional one-off move. It doesn't depend on the core Files plugin, so it still works if you use another file explorer.
• Links stay intact. The move goes through Obsidian's own rename, so with Automatically update internal links on, every link to the note is updated.
• Nothing is overwritten. If the target folder already has a note with the same name, the moved note becomes name-1.md and a notice tells you.
• Rename a folder in the vault and the preset follows it.
• Works on phones and tablets. The same button sits in the mobile header and the menu opens as a bottom sheet.
• A command, Quick Move: Open move menu, for a hotkey or the mobile toolbar.
• English and Chinese interface, following Obsidian's language.

Use cases

• Triage an inbox: read a note, send it to Projects, Reading or Archive in one click.
• File notes on your phone without digging through the folder tree.
• Keep a short list of today's active folders at the top of the menu.

Install

Search for Quick Move in Settings → Community plugins, or copy main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/quick-move/.

Then open Settings → Quick Move and add your folders.

License

MIT