Fun with AHK

[Jeffurry]

Word Count option (Windows)

I have noticed the lamentations from users of Better Word Count plugin that it doesn’t work in Live Preview. And the the File Info plugin doesn’t give word count for selected text in Live Preview either. One alternative is to use a small utility. On Windows, I use Skrommel’s little AHK script which gives the word count for selected text in whatever program you are using. This does work in Live Preview. I assume similar utilities are available for other OSs. I use it all the time because I oft…

[drctrl]

Anyone successful in getting the main notetaking window activated using AHK? The open vault window is the one that’s getting brought up by AHK every time I invoke WinRestore.

; Launch Obsidian Ctrl + Shift + (with consideration to multiple computers)

^+`::

PathToApp = C:\Users%A_UserName%\AppData\Local\Obsidian ; add this workaround because FileExist does not evaluate %A_xxx% variables

Process, Exist, “Obsidian.exe” ; Sets ErrorLevel variable to processID

if(ErrorLevel)

{

if(WinActive("ahk_exe Obsidian.exe"))

{

    ; WinMinimize, ahk_exe "Obsidian.exe"

    WinMinimize, Title, "Obsidian.exe"

}

else

{

    ;WinActivate, ahk_exe "Obsidian.exe"

    ;WinRestore, ahk_exe "Obsidian.exe"

    WinActivate, ahk_exe "Obsidian.exe"

    WinRestore, ahk_exe "Obsidian.exe"

}

}

else

{

if(FileExist(PathToApp))

{

    Run "C:\Users\%A_UserName%\AppData\Local\Obsidian\Obsidian.exe"

}

else

{

    MsgBox Check if Obsidian is installed.

}

}

return
`

[Nihit]

I have a script for activating a specific vault, you can check them out, I am not very good with AHK, I can’t at this point explain anything else.

; This will activate obsidian, if not already open, it will open it & run the command for quick add plugin.
; This is one hotkey which I am able to get to work every time in any location whatsoever
^q::
WinActivate, i) Obsidian
Run “obsidian://advanced-uri?vault=my_vault_name_here&commandname=QuickAdd: Run QuickAdd”
return

; It will activate it & run the command for quick capture to daily notes.
; Whenever Chrome is active, this doesn’t seem to work all the time.
^Capslock::
Send, !o
Send, ^+d
return

; It will activate it & run the command for quick capture to workbench
; Whenever Chrome is active, this doesn’t seem to work all the time.
^!x::
Send, !o
Send, ^+x
return

; This will activate the obsidian window & if not open it will open obsidian & activate it
!o::
WinActivate, i) Obsidian
Run “obsidian://advanced-uri?vault=my_vault_name_here”
return

[drctrl]

This is great. Thanks so much @Nihit !

[Superheavy]

I like that this thread exists! I’d like to see more