Two keywords give you instant access to the notes you care about most right now.Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mintlify.com/chrisgrieser/shimmering-obsidian/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
ob surfaces your Obsidian bookmarks — both bookmarked files and saved search queries — so your curated highlights are always one Alfred trigger away. or lists the ten most recently opened notes, making it trivial to resume whatever you were working on last.
Bookmarks — ob
ob keyword searches your bookmarked files and saved searches, as managed by Obsidian’s Bookmarks core plugin.
The Bookmarks core plugin must be enabled in Obsidian for
ob to return any results. Enable it under Settings → Core plugins → Bookmarks.Bookmarked files
When you select a bookmarked file, every modifier from the maino search is available:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
⏎ | Open the file in Obsidian |
⌘ + ⏎ | Open in a new tab (configurable: new window or split) |
⌥ + ⏎ | Reveal the file in Finder |
fn + ⏎ | Append content to the note (prompts for text or uses clipboard) |
⌃ + ⏎ | Copy the Obsidian URI for the file to the clipboard |
⇧ + ⏎ | Browse all links of the note |
⇧ or ⌘ + Y | Quick Look preview of the note |
Bookmarked searches
When you select a bookmarked search, Obsidian opens its search pane with the saved query pre-filled — no modifiers required. This lets you keep complex search queries as named bookmarks and replay them instantly.Recent files — or
or keyword shows the ten most recently opened files from your active vault. No query is needed — just trigger or and pick the note you want to return to.
All modifiers from the main o search work identically on recent file results:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
⏎ | Open the file in Obsidian |
⌘ + ⏎ | Open in a new tab (configurable: new window or split) |
⌥ + ⏎ | Reveal the file in Finder |
fn + ⏎ | Append content to the note (prompts for text or uses clipboard) |
⌃ + ⏎ | Copy the Obsidian URI for the file to the clipboard |
⇧ + ⏎ | Browse all links of the note |
⇧ or ⌘ + Y | Quick Look preview of the note |
The recent files list is read from Obsidian’s
workspace.json file and is limited to the 10 most recently opened files. This file is only updated while Obsidian is running, so files opened in a previous session may not appear if Obsidian has not been launched since.