Obsidian.el — Obsidian Notes within Emacs

There were several discussions over the past year about supporting Obsidian Notes within Emacs. Which I thought was a neat idea, so I built [obsidian.el](https://github.com/licht1stein/obsidian.el) You can read the details in the readme, but even though it's still WIP, it already can: \- autocomplete tags \- insert links from selection \- jump between notes \- capture notes \- correctly follow notes generated by obsidian Give it a try please and let me know what you think! [https://github.com/licht1stein/obsidian.e](https://github.com/licht1stein/obsidian.el)l UPDATE: Added `obsidian-follow-link-at-point` and updated documentation. Now all kinds of obsidian markdown and wikilinks work correctly. UPDATE Jul 30: Implemented `obsidian-search` and `obsidian-tag-find`

may the ground you walk on be blessed

Forgive me for going in the obvious direction here, but would there be any tangible benefit to switching to obsidian from org-roam? Great work by the way. Edit: Lol sorry, you answered in your README.

The lack of emacs integration is the reason I have held off from using Obsidian. It looks like the Volcano Gods have blessed me. (Seriously, thank you)

The reason given in the readme is mobile support. I have been [using logseq with org-roam](https://coredumped.dev/2021/05/26/taking-org-roam-everywhere-with-logseq/) on mobile with good success. The obsidian app (I would imagine) works better, but doesn’t support org-mode like logseq does.

No, it's markdown only. But for my use case it's enough :)

Thank you, you made me blush :)

Thanks for trying it :)

I see you mention org-roam as an alternative to this, but is there any reason why org-roam could not be included in the functionality you provide/made compatible with? I'm probably overlooking something obvious here, but I've grown quite accustomed to org-roam but i also see the potential of obsidian. Would be great to see them compatible/combined!

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Too much hassle managing two pkms systems. I feel like I won’t have time for the knowledge itself :) I like org-roama lot, and maybe they’ll have a worthy mobile solution one day. But I went the markdown/obsidian way.

I was looking for something like this ever since I decided to move off of org-mode for my PKM, too. One issue I ran into was having wikilinks work in emacs. Mark-down mode and gfm-mode don't like whitespace in the link URL. I'm accustomed to writing title case titles, which Obsidian copies the case in the filename. For example, a note titled "This is a note" will have filename "This is a note.md." Do you know how to have filenames with whitespace work in emacs? I notice that you use kebab case in your example screenshots. Is this the route you had to take to make the links work in emacs?

I have implemented a custom function `obsidian-follow-link-at-point` and updated readme to show how to use it with `C-c C-o` in obsidian-mode. Should do the job most of the times. Tested it on funky file links like these: `[[subdir/2-sub with spaces and буквы.md|complex file name wiki link]]` `[complex file name md link](subdir/2-sub%20with%20spaces%20and%20`[`буквы.md`](https://буквы.md)`)` Note how Obsidian app replaces spaces with \`%20\` when inserting markdown links, and doesn't do that in wiki links. Obsidian.el does the same when inserting link for complete compatibility with the Obsidian app.

Wow! Did you just add the link functionality? That was fast! Thanks for being so responsive. I almost didn't switch to Obsidian from org-mode because of the I wanted to edit Obsidian notes in emacs but the user experience wasn't there without a package like yours. So thank you! You're a life saver. One suggestion on `obsidian-follow-link-at-point`: when Obsidian inserts links, it does so without the .md file extension and without being explicit on file link and display name. For example, the note `This is a New note.md` will be inserted as a wikilink like so: \[\[This is a New note\]\], instead of \[\[This is a New note.md|This is a New note\]\]. Would it be possible to add that format for following and inserting links? I think the more explicit method you shared would be better for cross app markdown compatibility and future proofing. I don't see the option to insert wikilinks like this in Obsidian, so let me know if that's possible.

Thanks, I'll play with link formats some more. Shouldn't be a problem.

The top link was created by Obsidian App, the bottom one was created by Obsidian.el: `[2-sub](2-sub.md)` `[2-sub](subdir/2-sub.md)` Obsidian would create the same links as obsidian.el did (with relative path) when there is more than 1 file with same name. So I'll keep the `obsidian-insert-link` as is, and adjust `obsidian-follow-link-at-point` to find files in subdirectories without the path specified.

Ready. Now it works like this: https://github.com/licht1stein/obsidian.el#multiple-matches

I added support for Obsidian style wikilinks in both obsidian-insert-wikilink and obsidian-follow.. :)

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Great idea. Thanks a lot. Now I can work with all my notes within Emacs. :)

Thanks! I rarely open obsidian on the desktop since I made this :)

Thanks for your work man