Rother
August 26, 2026, 5:53pm
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It would be nice to quickly open a specified vault on mobile, likely with a widget
Add a widget that can be customized to open specific vaults
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:
Have the Obsidian app installed. The different Vaults should also be there. (I guess you already have this or you wouldn’t b…
Selecting “Manage vaults” extra item and selecting a vault from there. This is clunky
can you use the “open note” widget and leave the note field empty?
Rother
August 26, 2026, 11:38pm
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That is possible, although when it’s left blank there seems to be no way to differentiate* between multiple widgets for different vaults, and after opening the vault it will prompt about opening a link.