New Obsidian CLI

Update: Obsidian 1.12 includes the official Obsidian CLI.


For at least 5 years, people have wanted to open directories as vaults from the terminal: Command Line Interface to open folders (and files) in Obsidian from the terminal

For at least 3 years, people have wanted global settings that are saved across vaults (e.g. keybindings): Global Settings / Same settings, themes, and plugins across multiple vaults

I’ve decided to create a CLI to solve both problems:

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with Obsidian in any way, this MIT-licensed open source project is made solely to help Obsidian users.

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