Obsidian stores a number of important files in hidden folders that are tedious to navigate to in Finder. Shimmering Obsidian surfaces both your CSS snippet files and the most commonly needed hidden directories as first-class Alfred commands, so you can reach them in seconds without leaving your keyboard.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.
CSS Snippets
Typeocss in Alfred to see a list of every CSS file in your vault’s snippets folder. Select any snippet and press ⏎ to open it in your default text editor.
This is especially handy when you are iterating on custom appearance tweaks — tweak the file in your editor, save, and switch back to Obsidian to see the change take effect immediately (assuming the snippet is already enabled in Settings → Appearance → CSS snippets).
Special Folder Access
The following Alfred keywords each open a specific Obsidian-related folder directly in Finder. All paths are relative to the vault you are currently controlling.| Keyword | Folder opened |
|---|---|
o.obsidian | The hidden .obsidian configuration folder at your vault root |
o.trash | The hidden .trash folder at your vault root |
oplugins | The community plugins folder at .obsidian/plugins |
othemes | The themes folder at .obsidian/themes |
oapplicationsupport | Obsidian’s global Application Support folder (~/Library/Application Support/obsidian) |
For
o.trash to contain any files, you must configure Obsidian to send
deleted files to its own internal trash rather than the system Trash. Go to
Settings → Files & Links → Deleted files and select Move to Obsidian
trash. If this setting is set to Move to system trash or Permanently
delete, the .trash folder will remain empty and o.trash will open an
empty Finder window.