#9

For the devs or plugin makers looking to implement this here is an Electron snippet I found for running in the background.
The workarounds have been really awkward for me, hope this gets fixed soon.

#10

You can use RBtray to do this for free. It makes it so that whenever you right-click on the minimize button, the app gets put into the system tray. These workarounds are okay, but there are plenty of functionalities which aren’t supported.

  • If you try to open Obsidian while it’s in the system tray, it doesn’t pop that window out, but instead let’s you open a new one. For me personally, it’s quite annoying to need to go to the system tray all the time to open an app.
  • It doesn’t automatically send the window to system tray when you want to close it, so the app won’t always be open and this is pretty much the primary reason why I’d want this feature.
  • Obsidian can’t be launched in system tray on startup with this method.
  • etc.
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#11

+1. fast open

#12

I guess you’re using Windows, so this doesn’t help you (but in case anyone else needs this), but on a Mac, the global ⌘H keyboard shortcut does this, and you can ⌘Tab back to the app.

#13

It’s great if we could run Obsidian in system tray at startup with preloading vaults and Obsidian Sync.

#14

+1 - Minimize to tray.

#15

I just registered to say that I also dearly miss this feature!

#16

The lack of a global shortcut to hide/show the window was a huge productivity hit, so I made this autohotkey script that hacks it in.

I expect it to have edge cases, maybe glitchiness sometimes as has to be expected every time you try to hack features like this into an app (this should really just be built it). For example, it doesn’t account for multiple windows.

ScrollLock::
	global hidden_obsidian_window_id

	window_id := WinExist("ahk_exe Obsidian.exe")

	; If app window exists (hidden windows are ignored by WinExist)
	if (window_id) {
		; Check if it's focused
		if (WinActive("ahk_id " . window_id)) {
			; Activate previous window
			Send !{Esc}
			; Save window id and hide
			hidden_obsidian_window_id := window_id
			WinHide, % "ahk_id " . window_id
		} else {
			; Focus
			WinActivate, % "ahk_id " . window_id
		}
	} else {
		if (hidden_obsidian_window_id) {
			; Unhide
			WinShow, % "ahk_id " . hidden_obsidian_window_id
			WinActivate, % "ahk_id " . hidden_obsidian_window_id
			hidden_obsidian_window_id := false
		} else {
			; Launch the app
			EnvGet, A_LocalAppData, LocalAppData
			Run, % A_LocalAppData . "\Obsidian\Obsidian.exe"
		}
	}
	return
#17

This little old freeware https://github.com/igr/dm2/releases/tag/v1.23.1 does it in Windows

#18

Is what I’ve been using, since it has keyboard shortcuts for both hide to tray and unhide from tray. However, native support to show/hide window (like Notion-Rapackaged) with a dedicated hotkey would be ideal.

#19

@Licat @Silver ny plan native support?

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#20

+1 This feature will be very helpfule in Obsidian App :).

#21

Two workarounds for macOS:

  1. Apptivate (free app) to set a shortcut for toggling the main app’s visibility → this is actually what I’m using
  2. Using macOS native app shortcut on the “Minimize” menu position: Create keyboard shortcuts for apps on Mac – Apple Support (AU) (though there seems to be no way to maximise it using this method)
#22

+1 for this… would also love to see Quick Note pop the app back up from minimized system tray status.

#23

I have just downloaded Traymond and it does the job. (Shortcut: “Windows Key+Shift+Z”)

#24

New to Obsidian and the lack of a global hotkey to show/hide the app would be a deal breaker for me. Fortunately this is easy to achieve on MacOS using Keyboard Maestro:

XM 2021-12-31T12-56-41

#25
  • to this topic.
    Need similar features, like it was made in a Flashnote
#26

+1
Feature “Minimize Obsidian App to tray on close” is very useful.
Evernote and other similar programms are able to do it.

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#27

Thanks for “alltray” tip!

#28

Obsidian has a plugin called “Global Hotkeys” which is supposed to provide OS-level hotkeys to Obsidian actions…not sure if it works on Mac (haven’t checked yet). Might be another option for folks.