Obsidian Quick Links

Create shortcuts to quickly link to external sites in Obsidian.

For example, you can link to "New York City" on Wikipedia by writing [[w:New York City]].

You can also define your own custom shortcuts. For instance, you could create a twitter: prefix to link to a Twitter profile with [[twitter:some-twitter-handle]].

FAQs

Can I make a custom quick link to another Obsidian vault?

Yes. If your vault is called my-vault, then set the target URL in the "Manage quick links" settings pane to obsidian://vault/my-vault/%s.

Wiki links are showing up in my graph view. How do I hide them?

There are two options:

• Uncheck the "Use wiki link syntax" box in the Quick Links settings. This means you will have to write quick links as [](w:Whatever) instead of [[w:Whatever]].
• In your graph view settings, enable the "Existing files only" option.

I changed a setting/added a new link but the result is still the same.

Obsidian only re-renders your content when it changes, so open tabs may show the results of outdated settings. Closing and reopening the file will force Obsidian to re-render with the latest settings.

Development

• npm run dev to build in dev mode and automatically rebuild on changes.
• npm run build to build in prod mode and run the type-checker.
• npm run check to run the type-checker by itself.

To set up the plugin for development, clone this repository and create a symlink in your vault's .obsidian/plugins folder.

After each rebuild, you will need to disable and reenable the plugin to load the latest code.

Since Obsidian only re-renders the changed parts of a file, you may need to close and reopen the file to see the rendered result of the latest code.

The plugin produces a lot of debugging output, so make sure that Debug/Verbose output isn't filtered out in the console logs.