Posts tagged #workflows

Obsidian ships with a custom URI protocol that lets scripts, browsers, and phone shortcuts read and write your vault without you touching the app. Here's how the core actions work and where the Advanced URI plugin picks up the slack.

Most Obsidian friction is the round trip from keyboard to mouse and back. Here is how the command palette, a short list of hotkeys, and a little usage data get rid of it.

Workspaces is a core Obsidian plugin that saves your entire pane layout under a name and restores it in one command. Here's how to design layouts worth saving, and the gotcha that trips everyone up.

Splitting your Obsidian vault feels like tidying up, but a vault boundary is a hard wall your search, links, and queries cannot cross. Here is what you actually give up, and when it is worth it.

Obsidian's core Search has a real query language hiding behind the search box. Here's how file, path, line, block, section, task, and property operators replace half the plugins people install to find things.

Dataview code blocks give you tables. Inline queries give you a single live value in the middle of a sentence, which turns out to be the feature you reach for far more often.

QuickAdd turns Obsidian into a keyboard-driven capture machine. Here is how its Captures, Templates, and Macros actually work, with copy-paste examples.

The official Obsidian Web Clipper turns any web page into a clean, templated vault note. Here's how its templates, variables, and filters actually work.

Most people give up on Obsidian mobile because the defaults don't match how they actually capture notes. The fix isn't plugins — it's ten minutes in the Mobile settings.