Carlo Zottmann

Actions for Obsidian - 30+ Shortcuts actions for working with Obsidian on macOS

The missing link between macOS and Obsidian, the personal knowledge management tool: 30+ Shortcuts actions to bring your notes and your automations together. It makes Obsidian a first-class productivity citizen in Apple's Shortcuts app.

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Carlo Zottmann
πŸ––πŸΌ Hello from Europe, Product Hunt! I'm happy to announce the launch of my macOS app Actions for Obsidian. πŸš€ It's a companion app for the note-taking powerhouse Obsidian, bringing nearly 40 Obsidian-related actions to Apple's Shortcuts automation tool. As you may know, Obsidian has a very vibrant plugin ecosystem. While it is great to be able to do almost anything with your notes and data inside your vault, I always felt it lacked interaction with the rest of macOS. Every other application had Shortcuts support, which meant I could move information around however I wanted, but when it came to my notes, I had to resort to scripts and bash hackery if I wanted to update them. So I built Actions for Obsidian. It's a proxy between macOS (and later iOS) and my Obsidian vaults. It helps me work with notes, folders, and vaults, and allows me to get data into my notes and out of my vaults. Want to update your current daily note from Shortcuts? No problem. Append or prepend to a note? Sure thing! Search and replace in notes? Go for it! Want to grab a Dataview table and export it to Numbers? No big deal. πŸ‘πŸΌ I could go on and on, but I don't want to waste your time, so let me end with a short list: - "Pay what you think is fair": one license, three different prices ($9, $12, $15) - 14-day trial + 20-day extended trial ("extended" = feat. purchase reminders) - iOS beta starting late March, early April 2023 - 100% Indie energy βœŠπŸΌπŸš€β˜•οΈ - Available everywhere except Russia -- Π‘Π»Π°Π²Π° Π£ΠΊΡ€Π°Ρ—Π½Ρ– πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ If you have any questions or feedback for me, have at it, please!
Umar Abdullah
Amazing work! Obsidian just got even more powerful. I can't wait to see what I can do with it.
Carlo Zottmann
@umar_abdullah2 Thanks, Umar! Happy to hear you find it useful πŸŽ‰
Tabrez Syed
Very interesting! I love everything Obsidian so I'm excited for this project. I'm curious about the use case to use it with shortcuts. I'm typically doing most of these actions inside Obsidian. I can see using Siri to append to a note but I'm not sure about delete folder.
Carlo Zottmann
@tabrezsyed "Create Folder" is there not because I need it all the time but because I might need it again. Same with Dataview and many other actions. πŸ˜‰ But here are a few examples of things I've used Actions for Obsidian for in the past: β€” Creating notes from data in a spreadsheet, one note per row, as the basis for more work. (And sorting them into subfolders after creation.) β€” Creating/updating notes for every contact in my address book. β€” Updating my daily note which I use as my "command center" for the day.
Tabrez Syed
@czottmann Cool! Thanks for the examples.
Chris Brooks
Already using this on MacOS to automate my action workflow (Siri to Drafts to Obsidian). A key missing link that has long been needed. Cannot wait to see this show up in iOS / iPadOS as well.
Carlo Zottmann
@chris_brooks4 iOS beta is coming in the next few weeks. Thanks, Chris! πŸ™πŸΌ
Inna Zaluzhna
A wonderful app!
Carlo Zottmann
@inna_zaluzhna Thanks, Inna! 😁