Obsidian

Overview

Read, create, update, search, and delete notes in your Obsidian vault. Manage periodic notes, execute commands, and patch content at specific locations. Requires the Obsidian Local REST API plugin.

How to automate Obsidian with Sim

1. 01

   Create a free account

   Sign up at sim.ai in seconds. No credit card required. Your workspace is ready immediately.

2. 02

   Add a Obsidian block

   Open a workflow, drag a Obsidian block onto the canvas, and paste in your Obsidian API key.

3. 03

   Configure, connect, and run

   Pick the tool you need, wire in an AI agent for reasoning or data transformation, and run. Your Obsidian automation is live.

Workflow templates

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Supported tools

15 Obsidian tools available in Sim

• List Files

  List files and directories in your Obsidian vault

• Get Note

  Retrieve the content of a note from your Obsidian vault

• Create Note

  Create or replace a note in your Obsidian vault

• Append to Note

  Append content to an existing note in your Obsidian vault

• Patch Note

  Insert or replace content at a specific heading, block reference, or frontmatter field in a note

• Delete Note

  Delete a note from your Obsidian vault

• Search

  Search for text across notes in your Obsidian vault

• Get Active File

  Retrieve the content of the currently active file in Obsidian

• Append to Active File

  Append content to the currently active file in Obsidian

• Patch Active File

  Insert or replace content at a specific heading, block reference, or frontmatter field in the active file

• Open File

  Open a file in the Obsidian UI (creates the file if it does not exist)

• List Commands

  List all available commands in Obsidian

• Execute Command

  Execute a command in Obsidian (e.g. open daily note, toggle sidebar)

• Get Periodic Note

  Retrieve the current periodic note (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly)

• Append to Periodic Note

  Append content to the current periodic note (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly). Creates the note if it does not exist.

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