Obsidian’s a bit weird when it comes to “open file in Obsidian”-type actions. So, you have to use Obsidian’s URL scheme. That’s what the shortcut does.
If your vault is sync via iCloud, and you aren’t looking to open the note after it is appended, the ios internal commands are also great. I don’t use any other apps/tools such as the URI command, ios’s internal commands have one that allow you to prepend/append files in the icloud drive. In obsidian’s case, since all notes are just markdown, I can easily select any one file.
I set some formatting that help wraps around what I input in the prompt, so the inbox items are organized in a minimal way.
I’ve been using Bear as my Zettelkasten software, and I figured out how to reproduce one of the best Shortcuts from my Bear workflow in Obsidian: dictating new notes. It’s nothing too fancy, but it really makes it much faster and easier to jot down thoughts as I have them.
The shortcut is here. Note that you’ll most likely need to change the vault name in the URL.
I’ve renamed my local copy to “Write This Down.” All I have to do is trigger Siri, say “Write this down,” dictate the title of the note, and dictate the note body. The shortcut then opens the note in Obsidian, where I can add any relevant links or tags.
I’m trying to export text (e.g., highlights from a webpage, or info from a podcast, highlights from instapaper) from my iPhone 12 to obsidian using Shortcuts app. It seemed to save only in .txt and not markdown.
Used your example to create shortcut “wepclipper” that creates a note directly in the vault via the Obsidian URI.
No third-party apps or Obsidian plugins are required!
The syntax is like obsidian://new?vault=myvault&name=mynote , as noted here: Using obsidian URI . The title of the name is taken from the title of the website.
You will have to modify the shortcut to include your vault name.
Hello, I’m somewhat new with iOS and saw some people doing nice thing with Shortcut and wanted to do the same. Unfortunately I’m not able to achieve what I wanted. I take scribe note with the Moleskine smart Pen and it can export a .txt files of what I wrote on a pages. I want the text in this file to be added to my daily note.
For short, in Moleskine Note app share TXT files to Obsidian and Create a Daily note or add the text to it.
Is that all of the steps in your shortcut? If so, you’re just missing an “Open URL” action at the end. (Your last step there simply creates a URL—it doesn’t launch it.)
I regularly forget to add Open URL, for what it’s worth!
Is there an other way to put content in the note then “&content=” because i write in french and accent (like ê) seams to not work all the time and make a broken URL. I use obsidian sync
I’m not using the Moleskine Note app, so I don’t know the details of it. If the TXT file shared by the app is a plain text file (= not rich text), you don’t need to convert it to markdown in shortcuts app. Then the French accent will be displayed as it is.
I am trying to create a shortcut that creates a note and then open that specific note. Here is a screenshot of what I have so far. I can create the note but I am having trouble with it opening that specific note. Any suggestions? Is what I am asking even possible?
This workflow allows you to hold the lock button off your iPhone, say “dictate” and then dictate a note with the transcribed text being directly linked to your obsidian daily note. In fact these sentences were dictated using this shortcut