Actions For Obsidian integrates the personal knowledge management tool Obsidian with Apple's automation ecosystem. With 40+ Shortcuts actions, it brings your notes and automations together, making Obsidian a first-class citizen in Apple's Shortcuts app. Use it to bring information from other apps into your notes, or to bring information from your vaults into other apps.
Some of the possibilities it adds:
- Creating, manipulating, searching, opening, organizing notes, including daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly ones
- Working with files
- Working with Dataview
- Working with note properties
- Working with your vault's files and folders
- Working with Obsidian commands
For a full list and detailed description, please click the "Website" link to the right or visit https://actions.work/actions-for-obsidian.
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I wanted a shortcut ala cgp grey, that let me enter text then decide where it goes. Enabling prepend or append to a given obsidian note is exactly what I needed! I’m sure this is a fundamental issue with interactions with iOS and Obsidian more than the app or app devs, but when the actions run, it flips back and forth rapidly between actions for obsidian and obsidian when it runs, and it lands on Obsidian each time it does this. But, with what I need this for, quickly hitting down ideas before I forget them, the flippy back and forth doesn’t matter since by the time it does the flippy, my part in writing is completely done
Amazingly comprehensive utility
Curious Rabbit
This opens up the full flexibility of Obsidian for your shortcuts. My first use for this was for appending short text to a log section of my daily note. I couldn’t have asked for an easier way to do it than the “Append text to daily note” action. Well thought out, well documented app from a truly responsive developer.
Developer Response
Your review made my day, many thanks 🖖🏼
The missing link for Obsidian and Mac.
Sabidurian
Scales Obsidian's power greatly, allowing for a multitude of workflow enhancements for the app on Mac and iOS. A few days after adopting it, can't imagine my Obsidian workflow without this tool.And the developer is excellent: Quick to reply to and address any questions or concerns.If you use Obsidian on iOS and/or Mac, this is an essential addition.
Developer Response
Many thanks! 🙌🏼
Incredible Productivity Boost
Giminoshi
I’m pretty amazed that an app like this even exists. I’ve just set up my first action. Action Button > Record > Transcribe > Write to New NoteWorks flawlessly. I was worried when I noticed that Obsidian didn’t support Shortcuts natively, but this app fixes that entirely.
No visible new features, but increased stability, especially for those of you on iOS 26.
Heads-up: this release raises the minimum requirement to iOS 18.4. If you're on an older OS, the previous version 2025.2.x will keep working for the foreseeable future.
■ No Longer Broken
• If you held a macOS-only license and opened the paywall to add iOS, the sheet would flash a "License Verified" toast and close on the spot, making the upgrade impossible. Fixed! Single-platform license holders can now actually see, and buy, the upgrade offering. Sorry for the mess.
• The "License Verified" toast no longer appears for customers without a license, and no longer flashes on every routine open of the License tab. It now only shows up when it actually means something: after a successful purchase, after a successful restore, or when you explicitly retry a failed license check.
• The app title on the Home tab no longer drifts off-center when it wraps to multiple lines.
■ Changes
• Under the hood, the entire communication layer between AFO and Obsidian's "Actions URI" plugin was rewritten from scratch. You shouldn't notice a difference in day-to-day use, but if an Obsidian call ever hangs, you'll now get a clear timeout error after 20 seconds instead of waiting indefinitely.
Version 2026.1.0
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