This would be great feature. It’s something I wanted to write about as well. It will help us link to pages that are in other Vaults and also add attachments without copying them to the attachments folder.
I totally agree with the suggestion of an obisidian:// scheme to link from external apps.
Considering that Obsidian prides itself first and foremost about supporting linking, it seems quite ironic if the linking is only possible internally but an external app cannot link to an Obsidian vault or .md file.
Just bumping this up to see if there are any further thoughts/plans with this suggestion.
31 people have “liked” the initial suggestion by @ryanjamurphy so clearly he is on to something - and I agree.
The documentation for Obsidian emphasizes that “Links are first-class citizens”; why limit those links to within Obsidian. The software would be so much more helpful if it were possible to place obsidian:// links inside Devonthink or Curio or Tinderbox etc as an additional type of item to be added to those projects.
Was going to write up basically exactly this, with one precision:
Invoking “Open Specific Note” should create that note if it doesn’t already exist.
Use case scenario:
I publish one of my Vaults to the web via Jekyll. I should be able to click on any [[Note name]] link (which I handle creating via Jekyll templating) that doesn’t exist and that launches Obsidian and creates that note. This allows ad-hoc specific note creation if I happen to viewing my published Vault and feel inspiration take me (without having to switch to Obsidian, go to a Vault, Create file, etc…). I suppose theoretically “New Note” would do in this case, but creating a new note when Open finds it doesn’t exist is so much more graceful somehow. imho anyways.
thanks and looking forward to Obsidian URL scheme!
Sorry for the extra post but to add my vote here a bit more emphatically…
Supporting this feature is important because the reality of notetaking (and “digital gardends” and PKMs and Zettlekastens and and and) is that no one app can accomodate everybody’s many needs and desires. Every one of us has varying needs, varying tools, varying output targets etc…
This means that everyone comes up with their own strategies and—important here—systems of note taking tools and workflows. Fitting neatly into those workflows and systems is what allows users to really get multiplied value out of an application like Obsidian.
Yes, URL Schemes are a geeky thing, but those geeks who will use it are figuring out the cowpaths which can be paved later into new features and tools and value creation.
It would be nice to have the ability to link to a note such that it is opened in Obsidian from an external app. For instance, I might maintain a todo list in another app and want to reference a note that has further details. Using just link handling by the OS, a click in that app would ideally deep link me into Obsidian with said note open.
This would be useful to wire up my workflows that exist outside just Obsidian.
I’ve seen other apps use x-callback-url to expose an API to go with such deep-links, but that’s icing on top.
Moderator note: I am not linking to myself here. I posted this reply to a different thread before I was knighted moderatored. Now that I am omnipotent, I have merged the two threads.
That default .md open is slightly related. But not really. (It’s a good idea too!)
The x-callback-url would allow you to embed links in other apps, like your task manager. So you can reference certain Obsidian documents and click directly from your calendar for example.
Example: You could put a few links to related Obsidian documents in the description of one of your projects, in Things 3. I do this regularly with Scrivener, keeping detailed notes related to a project in my Scrivener doc.
Things 3, Scrivener, DevonThink and a few other apps support this. So you can glue different apps together.
(Things 3 and Drafts even have ways of creating content and templates with that scheme too.)
This is one of the most important features IMO. Being able to directly link to notes from things like Alfred Workflows, shell scripts, Hook, Emails, etc. is a big boost. Hope this comes to fruition one day!
imho anyways.
