Overview

This plugin allows you to add custom URI commands to the command palette. Can be used with the Obsidian URI scheme, as well as any other URI scheme your computer supports.

Placeholders

You can use {{fileName}}, {{fileText}}, {{selection}}, and {{meta:FIELD_NAME}} placeholders in your URI. All of these are URL-encoded for you, so you don't need to worry about your text having any unescaped illegal or reserved characters.

All commands with placeholders are hidden when there is no active file.

Placeholder	Description
{{fileName}}	Just the base name of the file, without the filepath or file extension.
{{fileText}}	Entire contents of the file, including frontmatter. Available only in markdown files.
{{selection}}	Your current selection. If nothing is selected, placeholder is replaced by the empty string.
{{line}}	Current line.
{{meta:FIELD_NAME}}	The value of the metadata field corresponding to FIELD_NAME. Note that if there are multiple values in one field (as a comma-separated list or [array]), the values in the field will be inserted in the URI as a comma-separated list. Requires MetaEdit.

Examples

Obsidian

• Open the vault work vault: obsidian://open?vault=work%20vault
• Open the note hotkey reference in the vault my vault: obsidian://open?vault=my%20vault&file=hotkey%20reference
• Append your selection to today's daily note (requires Advanced URI plugin): obsidian://advanced-uri?vault=&daily=true&data={{selection}}&mode=append
• Open this plugin's settings page (requires Hotkey Helper plugin): obsidian://goto-plugin?id=uri-commands&show=config

Other programs

• Open an email draft of your current note in your mail client: mailto:friend@example.com?subject={{fileName}}&body={{fileText}}
• Email your current note to Roam: mailto:me@sendtoroam.com?subject={{fileName}}&body={{fileText}}
• Open a spotify album: spotify:album:4niKC11eq7dRXiDVWsTdEy
• Open a new HackMD collaborative markdown pad: https://hackmd.io/new
  • Note that for websites, you must start your URI with https:// or http://, not www.
• Open the wikipedia page for the contents of the YAML field "topic": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{meta:topic}}
• Look up your selection in your Calibre library: calibre://search/_?q={{selection}}

Related plugins

• Advanced URI: enables URIs for daily note, appending text to a file, jump to heading, search and replace, and more
• Hotkey Helper: enables Obsidian URIs for plugin READMEs, settings, and hotkey configurations

Help

For more information on URIs in Obsidian, see the Obsidian documentation. An incomplete list of other URI schemes can be found here.

If your URI has spaces or other special characters, you may want to use a URL encoder. A chart of common special characters and their escape codes can be found here.

I have not tested these two lists of iOS URIs, but they seem very thorough.

Thanks

Parts of this code, especially the icon picker, borrow heavily from phibr0's plugins, including Obsidian Macros and Customizable Sidebar.