Quickly jumping to Obsidian from anywhere on your desktop

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This is part of my Obsidian and Plugin REPL Cookbook

A key feature of my Obsidian setup (though not the default one!) is being able to quickly open the Obsidian window while doing other things. This allows me to do quick one-off note taking. To do this I have a global desktop hotkey which pops up the Obsidian window.

This isn’t supported out of the box but is provided by the Tray Plugin. To install this go to settings (Ctrl + ,) then community plugins, enable community plugins, search for the tray plugin, and install it then enable it. If you go to its settings (again in settings Ctrl + ,) you will find it has a setting for Toggle window focus hotkey.

Tray works pretty well. At the time of writing it has one bug where if you reload Obsidian (which can be quite common when developing plugins) it creates multiple icons in the tray and the hotkey stops working. You can fix this by exiting Obsidian and starting it again. Because of this - and because I tend to have hotkeys to switch between apps in general I use a different approach on linux - but this requires you to use linux and have a bit of command-line knowledge. So if you aren’t doing plugin development Tray should work fine.

This is part of a cookbook on Obsidian and Plugin REPL plugin in the section on configuring basic Obsidian. You might like to look at other recipes.

I am not affiliated with Obsidian. I am the author of Plugin REPL