Comment by jadbox

9 hours ago

It's not super useful yet- you can't really view notes in the CLI but you can can trigger features like search.

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tibbon  37 minutes ago

I've used it with Claude Code for refactoring and helping write a really in depth D&D campaign. Using frontmatter, I can keep metadata about NPCs and characters synced across all files.

Fixes all the problems I've had about "In what order do I put this data" and flipping back and forth in a huge stack of papers.

WNWceAJ9R9Ezc4  9 hours ago

Notes are stored in Markdown files. Why do you need Obsidian CLI to view notes when `cat` will do?

  • goodmythical  9 hours ago

    Okay, so my command line fu is not what it perhaps should be, but if I could use obsidian without the bloated app, I'd be even more in love.

    How would I be able to search obsidian links from the command line?

    Like, to travel between notes in the app of course I can just click on connecting links or search, but I wouldn't have the faintest idea how to do that in a cli.

    Is there some handy way to search the current folder and subfolders for text in a file with regex? Like some kind of >find term for all of my [[term]] entries in markdown files ?

  • xnyan  8 hours ago

    Hackernews is accessed using http. Why do you need a web browser when curl exists?

    • fredoliveira  5 hours ago

      Not gp, but because the way hackernews would render in a web browser versus curl is dramatically different, of course. There's a clear separation of presentation and content, and curl shows you presentation.

      Notes being plain text files means that what you get by showing via a CLI is essentially the same as just `cat whatever-it-is.md`. Viewing a note via the CLI interface could have its merits (it could apply its own flavor of presentation), but come on now. Your example doesn't hold.