How to open a specific vault from outside Obsidian?

[hellen_dorandt89]

What I want to do is create a global Powershel/hotkey/shortcut file that when executed opens an obsidian window of a specific vault.

I cant seem to find a way to do this. Is the only way to open a vault through the obsidian interface?
I’ve tried to see if there any Cli options that come with Obsidian by running the obsidian.exe with the flag -help:

All that does is check for updates and then opens the Obsidian Vault opening window.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

—My hardware–
Windows 11 64bit PC
Surface Pro 6

[Craig]

It looks like you’re on Windows, so you should be able to invoke Obsidian by creating a URL shortcut like the following:

obsidian://open?vault=Reference&file=Typical%20Obsidian%20Config

In this case the vault name is “Reference” and the page name is “Typical Obsidian Config” (note each space replaced with a %20 ).

From Powershell:

Start-Process "obsidian://open?vault=Reference&file=Typical%20Obsidian%20Config"

From a command prompt:

start "" "obsidian://open?vault=Reference&file=Typical%20Obsidian%20Config"

[hellen_dorandt89]

Hey first of all thank you so much for your thorough example, I can confirm that it has worked as I wanted it to.

Just a final question, How did you know about this specific way to use obsidian? I am not as savy as most when it comes to these things, I usually default to the docs and if nothing I try the good old Program.exe -help in this case neither helped.

I would love to know if there some place where similar commands are documented, it would help allot. Thanks again.

[Craig]

You’re very welcome! The URL is described in the help docs here:

Using obsidian URI