Steps to reproduce Double click a .md file in my vault in the Windows 10 explorer. Or search and open a .md file in my open vault with PowerToys Run (like Spotlight or Alfred from Microsoft) tool. [1] Expected result The file opens in my current open Obsidian vault. Actual result Obsidian br…

I believe this isn’t a bug, but an inherent limitation of how obsidian works: it cannot register itself as an app that opens markdown files, because it only deals with what’s inside a vault. When you tell Windows (or macOS, for that matter) to open a file with Obsidian, all it does is fire up the a…

Obsidian does not support being handler of markdown files.

Why not? How else should we open files directly or with a search tool?

We are not sure how to hanlde files that do not belong to the vault. You can however open files withing the vault by using their Obsidian URI. If there isn’t already a FR to support being a handler of md files in your system, feel free to open a new one.

The file belongs to the vault and tools like Alfred don’t know about Obsidian URIs… … could be so easy as file handler

[image] Have Obsidian be the handler of .md files / Add ability to use Obsidian as a markdown editor on files outside vault (file association) Feature requests A suggestion to have the possibility to make Obsidian the default app to open .md files, when accessing them in F…

Have Obsidian be the handler of .md files / Add ability to use Obsidian as a markdown editor on files outside vault (file association) suggestion to have the possibility to make Obsidian the d You can set Obsidian as default handler on Windows. That’s no problem. The problem is, that Obsidian…

yeah, that’s the point of the feature request. EDIT: I renamed the FR to be clearer

Open file from Explorer or PowerToys Run

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WhiteNoise January 7, 2021, 7:37pm 7