Re:Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
by WNWceAJ9R9Ezc4 on Saturday February 28, 2026 @01:21PM
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Notes are stored in Markdown files. Why do you need Obsidian CLI to view notes when `cat` will do?
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Re:Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
by goodmythical on Saturday February 28, 2026 @01:36PM
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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 ?
Re:Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
by toddmorey on Saturday February 28, 2026 @01:39PM
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What is obsidian beyond a pile of markdown files without the app?
Re:Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
by chrisweekly on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:50PM
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ripgrep?
Re:Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
by xnyan on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:41PM
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Hackernews is accessed using http. Why do you need a web browser when curl exists?
Re:Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
by fredoliveira on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:47PM
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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.