Shimmering Obsidian 🎩

Alfred Workflow with dozens of features for controlling your Obsidian vault.

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Feature Overview
Installation
Credits
About the Developer

Feature Overview

For a full documentation & usage guide, follow the links to the respective subsection.

Powerful Alfred-based Quick Switcher

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 starred displays only files named "foobar" with the tag #moc that 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

Note-related 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

Screenshot 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

Utility Features

Back up your Vault
Access various folders like .obsidian or .trash
Update Plugins (including Beta Plugins installed via BRAT)
Open CSS Snippets
➡️ Documentation of all Utility Features

Plugins & Themes

Search Community Plugins and Themes, open in Obsidian or at GitHub
Access Plugin Settings
Search & Create GitHub Issues
➡️ Documentation of the Plugin & Theme Search

Workspace Switcher

Switch & Save workspaces
Manage Workspaces
Automatically toggle spellchecking when switching to certain workspaces
➡️ Documentation of the Workspace Switcher

Settings & Local Plugins

Search & open specific Settings Tabs
Open Plugin Settings
Open local plugin folders in .obsidian/plugins/
Enable or disable plugins
➡️ Documentation of the Settings Search

Documentation & Help

Search the Official Obsidian Documentation and the Obsidian Hub
➡️ Documentation of the Documentation Search

Vault Switcher

Open vaults in Obsidian, Finder, or the Terminal.
➡️ Documentation of the Vault Switcher

Features for Obsidian Plugin Developers

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

Cheatsheet

Draft Note:

oo: Append to scratchpad
oo: Open to scratchpad

Create Note:

on: New note

Workspace:

ow: Workspace switcher
ov: Vault switcher

Search:

o: Search every things
oe: Search all external link via vault
ot: Search tags
ob: Search bookmarked file/searches
or: Search recent files
oa: Open attachments (like images)
op: Search plugins/themes
o,: Search settings and installed plugins

Misc:

obackup: Backup vault
ocss: Open snippit/theme
odd: Search docs
oh: Documentation search
oupdate: Refreshing metadata, re-index, plugin update

Installation

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 .alfredworkflow file to install it.
Set your vault path in the workflow configuration.
Run the Alfred Command osetup. Obsidian then restarts.

Credits

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.
Most icons created by Freepik (Flaticon)

About the Developer

In my day job, I am a sociologist studying the social mechanisms underlying the digital economy. For my PhD project, I investigate the governance of the app economy and how software ecosystems manage the tension between innovation and compatibility. If you are interested in this subject, feel free to get in touch.

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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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