Alfred Workflow with dozens of features for controlling your Obsidian vault.
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For a full documentation & usage guide, follow the links to the respective subsection.
- Search for Notes
- Includes Aliases
- Search Headings
- Search Bookmarked Notes
- Search Recent Notes
- Browse Folders (move to parent folders, create notes in folders)
- Search Notes via Tags
- Browse a note's links (outgoing, backlinks, external)
- Open External Links of a note (without switching to the document or opening Obsidian)
- Search only for attachments (non-markdown files) in your vault
- Graph Traversal via Alfred
- Smart Search: A query like
o foobar #moc starreddisplays only files named "foobar" with the tag#mocthat are also starred. - Visual Search: Add Icons to your notes based on their tags, similar to the Supercharged Links Plugin.
- ➡️ Documentation of Quick Switcher Features
- Create new Notes, based on a template
- Quickly append to a scratchpad note
- 🆕 Search all external links in the vault
- ➡️ Documentation of Note-related Features
- OCR-Screenshots
- Image Screenshot
- Both work for screenshots taken in quick succession, for example during a live presentation or lecture.
- ➡️ Documentation of Screenshot Features
- Back up your Vault
- Access various folders like
.obsidianor.trash - Update Plugins (including Beta Plugins installed via
BRAT) - Open CSS Snippets
- ➡️ Documentation of all Utility Features
- Search Community Plugins and Themes, open in Obsidian or at GitHub
- Access Plugin Settings
- Search & Create GitHub Issues
- ➡️ Documentation of the Plugin & Theme Search
- Switch & Save workspaces
- Manage Workspaces
- Automatically toggle spellchecking when switching to certain workspaces
- ➡️ Documentation of the Workspace Switcher
- Search & open specific Settings Tabs
- Open Plugin Settings
- Open local plugin folders in
.obsidian/plugins/ - Enable or disable plugins
- ➡️ Documentation of the Settings Search
- Search the Official Obsidian Documentation and the Obsidian Hub
- ➡️ Documentation of the Documentation Search
- Open vaults in Obsidian, Finder, or the Terminal.
- ➡️ Documentation of the Vault Switcher
- Search the official developer docs
- Open various development-related folders
- Open a local plugin's folder in Finder or the Terminal
- Copy plugin IDs
- Open the Vault's root in the default Terminal or in Finder
- Add & Update Beta Plugins via BRAT
- ➡️ Documentation of Features for Developers
Draft Note:
oo: Append to scratchpadoo: Open to scratchpad
Create Note:
on: New note
Workspace:
ow: Workspace switcherov: Vault switcher
Search:
o: Search every thingsoe: Search all external link via vaultot: Search tagsob: Search bookmarked file/searchesor: Search recent filesoa: Open attachments (like images)op: Search plugins/themeso,:Search settings and installed plugins
Misc:
obackup: Backup vaultocss: Open snippit/themeodd: Search docsoh: Documentation searchoupdate: Refreshing metadata, re-index, plugin update
This workflow requires Alfred 5 with Powerpack.
- Install the Obsidian plugins Advanced URI & Metadata Extractor. Enable both plugins.
- Download the latest release at GitHub. Double-click the
.alfredworkflowfile to install it. - Set your vault path in the workflow configuration.
- Run the Alfred Command
osetup. Obsidian then restarts.
- Big shout-out to @kometenstaub for developing the metadata extractor plugin, as this workflow is its main client.
- Also thanks to @Vinzent03 for his invaluable Advanced URI plugin, which enables Alfred to control various aspects of Obsidian.
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Note that for questions, bug reports, or feature requests for this workflow, please open a GitHub issue, since it is better suited for technical support.
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