Hey everyone,
I wanted to create home screen shortcuts that open specific Vaults on my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy). It was hard to find good resources so I wanted to make a quick guide for anyone else looking for this in the future.
Creating home screen shortcuts to specific Vaults on Android is quite easy.
All these steps should take you around 2 min to complete:
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Have the Obsidian app installed. The different Vaults should also be there. (I guess you already have this or you wouldn’t be here.)
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Install “Shortcut Maker” by Rushikesh Kamewar (Any other shortcut maker should also work, just this is the one I have used, it’s free and without unnecessary bloat)
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Create a new shortcut.
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Tap on
Activities. -
Select Obsidian. Then the option
md.obsidian.MainActivity, it’s the only option available. -
You can edit the label and Icon however you want.
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Choose the third option, it should contain something like this: “Obsidian - md.Obsidian - md.obsidian.MainActivity”. Here we edit the intent.
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Change Action to
android.intent.action.VIEW. So you will have to replace the last word “MAIN” with “VIEW”. -
Change Data to
obsidian://open?vault=your%20vault%20. The last part has to be the name of your Vault. If there are any spaces in the name replace them with%20.- For example your Vault is called “Diary”:
obsidian://open?vault=Diary - For example your Vault is called “my vault”:
obsidian://open?vault=my%20vault
- For example your Vault is called “Diary”:
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Click create Shortcut. That’s it.
Now the shortcut works and always opens the specified Vault.
I really like this solution, since it even opens your preferred Vault even if a different one is currently open.
A quick video showing how to do it: https://youtu.be/NRtVAFfqoyg