Adds a command, an editor/explorer right-click item, a keyboard shortcut
(Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+O on a .md file), and a status bar button that opens the
current file in Obsidian, jumping straight to the right note in the right
vault. The status bar button appears at the bottom left whenever a Markdown
file is active.
It works by shelling out to obsidian://open?path=<absolute file path>.
Obsidian's path parameter searches your known vaults for whichever one
contains that path, so you don't need to hardcode a vault name anywhere.
Notes / things to check on your machine
First run: Obsidian needs to already know about the vault the file lives
in (i.e. you've opened that vault at least once before). It finds the
vault by matching the path, so this should already be true for any note
you're actively editing.
Windows paths: the extension swaps backslashes for forward slashes before
encoding, since Obsidian expects /-style paths even on Windows. If path
matching still fails on your setup, that's the first thing to double check.
Changing the shortcut: edit the keybindings block in package.json
before repackaging, or just rebind openInObsidian.open in VS Code's
Keyboard Shortcuts UI after installing — no need to repackage for that.
Changing where it shows up: the when clauses currently restrict it to
.md files. Adjust resourceExtname / resourceLangId in package.json
if you want it available more broadly (e.g. also on .mdx).
To release a new version: bump version in package.json, commit, then
create a GitHub Release with tag v<version> (must match). Publishing
the release triggers CI to package and publish to the Marketplace. A
plain git push --tags does not trigger it — only a published
Release does.
