Shimmering Obsidian gives you two complementary switchers for navigating your Obsidian setup without ever leaving Alfred. The workspace switcher (Documentation Index
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ow) lets you jump between named layouts inside your current vault, while the vault switcher (ov) lets you open any of your vaults in Obsidian, reveal it in Finder, drop into it in your terminal, or hand control of it to the workflow — all with a single keystroke modifier.
Workspace Switcher
Trigger the workspace switcher by typingow in Alfred. A list of all your saved Obsidian workspaces appears immediately. Select any workspace and press ⏎ to load it.
Beyond just switching, this view also lets you manage your workspaces without opening Obsidian’s own settings panel:
- Load a workspace — select any listed workspace and press
⏎to restore that layout. - Save the current workspace — select the “Save” entry (labelled with your currently active workspace name) to persist any layout changes you’ve made.
- Manage workspaces — select “Manage Workspaces” to open the Workspaces manager directly inside Obsidian, where you can rename or delete existing workspaces.
The workspace switcher requires the Workspaces core plugin to be enabled
inside Obsidian. Navigate to Settings → Core plugins → Workspaces and
toggle it on before using
ow.Vault Switcher
Trigger the vault switcher by typingov in Alfred. Shimmering Obsidian reads Obsidian’s own vault registry (~/Library/Application Support/obsidian/obsidian.json) and lists every vault it finds, along with its parent directory path for easy identification. The vault you are currently controlling is marked with a ✅ indicator.
Modifier keys
Each vault in the list responds to the following modifier keys:| Key | Action |
|---|---|
⏎ | Open the vault in Obsidian |
⌃ + ⏎ | Open the vault root folder in your default Terminal |
⌥ + ⏎ | Open the vault root folder in Finder |
⇧ + ⏎ | Switch workflow control to this vault (sets it as the active vault for all o commands) |
Every vault you want to control with Shimmering Obsidian must have both the
Advanced URI plugin and the Metadata Extractor plugin installed,
enabled, and configured. Without these two plugins active in a vault, workflow
features like note search, tag search, and URI-based navigation will not work
for that vault.