Shimmering Obsidian is an Alfred workflow that gives you powerful, keyboard-driven control over your Obsidian vault without ever leaving Alfred. Search notes by name, alias, tag, or heading; create new notes from templates; capture OCR screenshots; switch workspaces; browse community plugins — all from a single launcher.Documentation Index
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Installation
Get Shimmering Obsidian installed and configured in minutes.
Main Search
Discover the full power of the
o quick switcher.Note Management
Create notes, use the scratchpad, and capture screenshots.
Cheat Sheet
Quick reference for every Alfred keyword in one place.
What you can do
Quick Switcher
Open any note, folder, heading, or alias with the
o keyword.Tag Search
Browse all vault tags and drill down to tagged notes with
ot.Bookmarks & Recent
Jump to bookmarked files or your 10 most recent notes.
Attachments & Links
Search attachments and all external links across your vault.
New Notes
Create templated notes from Alfred with the
on keyword.Scratchpad
Instantly append text or selections to a designated scratchpad note.
OCR Screenshots
Capture screen regions and convert them to text notes via Tesseract.
Workspace Switcher
Switch to a workspace and save, load, or delete Obsidian workspaces.
Plugin Search
Browse and open community plugins and themes from Alfred.
Get started in 4 steps
Install required Obsidian plugins
Install and enable the Advanced URI and Metadata Extractor plugins from the Obsidian community plugin browser.
Download and install the workflow
Download the latest
.alfredworkflow file from the GitHub releases page and double-click it to install in Alfred.Set your vault path
Open the workflow configuration in Alfred and set the
vault_path variable to the absolute path of your Obsidian vault.Shimmering Obsidian requires Alfred 5 with the Powerpack license. The free version of Alfred does not support workflows.