Make Obsidian a default app for Markdown files on macOS

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This is a really nifty idea, thank you!

With a lot of trial and error, I achieved to successfully make minor improvements:

  • Markdown files in .trash or .obsidian will still be opened with your chosen Text Editor instead of Obsidian (unsuccessfully) trying to open them.
  • When outside an Obsidian vault, you can select and open multiple files at once (the original script is only able to open one file at a time)

My solution is probably quite hacky and since most of it is trial & error plus googling, I am afraid I won’t be able to help out customizing this solution even further, but I thought I’d nevertheless share the small improvement I achieved. The same instructions as above from @idea.list apply, you only have to input the following two scripts instead.

#!/usr/bin/env osascript -l JavaScript
function run(input) {
	const app = Application.currentApplication();
	app.includeStandardAdditions = true;

	const obsidianJsonFilePath = app.pathTo("home folder") + "/Library/Application Support/obsidian/obsidian.json";
	const vaults = JSON.parse(app.read(obsidianJsonFilePath)).vaults;

	let openInObsi = false;
	const pathArray = input.toString().split(",");
	const toOpen = [];
	pathArray.forEach(filePath => {
		const isFileInObsidianVault = Object.values(vaults).some(v => filePath.startsWith(v.path));
		if (isFileInObsidianVault && !filePath.includes("/.")) { // second condition prevents the opening of files in .obsidian or .trash
			toOpen.push("obsidian://open?path=" + encodeURIComponent(filePath));
			openInObsi = true;
		}
		else toOpen.push(filePath);
	});
	return [openInObsi.toString(), ...toOpen];

}

if $1 ; then
	open "$2"
else
	open -a "Sublime Text" "${@:2}"
fi
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