Albert Obsidian

A fairly simple python plugin to allow albert to interact with an Obsidian vault. Currently supports the following features

• Trigger query search of vault notes (default obs) by name/tags/body
  • Allows opening of searched note directly in obsidian
• Global query results from vault notes via name/tags/body
  • Allows opening of searched note directly in obsidian
• An indexer that re-indexes each time a note is created/moved/deleted
• Some basic settings to customise behaviour
• Creating a new note from query string:

Install

In order for this plugin to work, your Obsidian install must be setup to allow usage of Obsidian URI protocol Run the follow from a terminal:

git clone https://github.com/Pete-Hamlin/albert-obsidian.git $HOME/.local/share/albert/python/plugins/obsidian

Then enable the plugin from the albert settings panel (you must enable the python plugin for this plugin to be loadable)

Settings

• root_dir: Root directory of Obsidian vault you wish to interact with - default None
• open_override: Open action to use (see below) - default xdg-open
• filter_by_tags: When searching notes, include tags on the in the search criteria - default True
• filter_by_body: When searching notes, include the text of a note in the search criteria (WARNING: This has potential to cause some performance issues, handle with care) - default False

kde-open Issues

kde-open appears to have the behaviour of replacing %20 encoding with raw spaces again, thereby breaking URI handling for obsidian. This means that xdg-open doesn't work correctly on KDE systems, as far as I can tell. open_override is therefore provided to allow a different command (confirmed that the gnome default gio open works as intended).

Future Work

Potential ideas to add in future versions:

• Add a list of ignore folders for extension (mainly to blacklist .trash from being parsed)
• FallbackQuery handler
• Vault selector via query
• Custom metadata to add to the search criteria