Obsidian CLI

Installation and Usage Manual

Description

Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base application that works on top of your local folder of plain text notes. This CLI tool (written in Go) will let you interact with the application using the terminal. You are currently able to open, search, move, create, update and delete notes.

Install

Windows

You will need to have Scoop installed. On powershell run:

scoop bucket add scoop-yakitrak https://github.com/yakitrak/scoop-yakitrak.git

scoop install obsidian-cli

For full installation instructions, see Windows installation manual.

Mac and Linux

You will need to have Homebrew installed.

brew tap yakitrak/yakitrak

brew install yakitrak/yakitrak/obsidian-cli

For full installation instructions, see Mac and Linux manual.

Usage

Help

# See All command instructions
obsidian-cli --help

Set Default Vault

Defines default vault for future usage. If not set, pass --vault flag for other commands. You don't provide the path to vault here, just the name.

obsidian-cli set-default "{vault-name}"

Note: open and other commands in obsidian-cli use this vault's base directory as the working directory, not the current working directory of your terminal.

Print Default Vault

Prints default vault and path. Please set this with set-default command if not set.

obsidian-cli print-default

Open Note

Open given note name in Obsidian. Note can also be an absolute path from top level of vault.

# Opens note in obsidian
obsidian-cli open "{note-name}"

# Opens note in specified obsidian
obsidian-cli open "{note-name}" --vault "{vault-name}"

Search Note

Opens obsidian search tab with given search text

# Searches in default obsidian
obsidian-cli search "{search-text}"

# Searches in specified obsidian
obsidian-cli search "{search-text}" --vault "{vault-name}"

Create / Update Note

Creates note (can also be a path with name) in vault. By default, if the note exists, it will create another note but passing --overwrite or --append can be used to edit the named note.

# Creates empty note in default obsidian and opens it
obsidian-cli create "{note-name}"

# Creates empty note in given obsidian and opens it
obsidian-cli create "{note-name}"  --vault "{vault-name}"

# Creates note in default obsidian with content
obsidian-cli create "{note-name}" --content "abcde"

# Creates note in default obsidian with content - overwrite existing note
obsidian-cli create "{note-name}" --content "abcde" --overwrite

# Creates note in default obsidian with content - append existing note
obsidian-cli create "{note-name}" --content "abcde" --append

# Creates note and opens it
obsidian-cli create "{note-name}" --content "abcde" --open

Move / Rename Note

Moves a given note(path from top level of vault) with new name given (top level of vault). If given same path but different name then its treated as a rename. All links inside vault are updated to match new name.

# Renames a note in default obsidian
obsidian-cli move "{current-note-path}" "{new-note-path}"

# Renames a note and given obsidian
obsidian-cli move "{current-note-path}" "{new-note-path}" --vault "{vault-name}"

# Renames a note in default obsidian and opens it
obsidian-cli move "{current-note-path}" "{new-note-path}" --open

Delete Note

Deletes a given note (path from top level of vault).

# Renames a note in default obsidian
obsidian-cli delete "{note-path}" 

# Renames a note in given obsidian
obsidian-cli delete "{note-path}" --vault "{vault-name}"

Contribution

Fork the project, add your feature or fix and submit a pull request. You can also open an issue to report a bug or request a feature.

License

Available under MIT License

HamzaMateen/obsidian-cli