Obsidian Note Codes

Obsidian Note Codes 🦔 🦔 🦔 Obsidian with the Note Code plugin on the bottom right showing the code for a note about hedgehogs. I made a little plugin for Obsidian: Note Codes. It will assign a 4-character code to every note in your Obsidian vault. Those codes let you quickly reference notes in your vault from other places such as hand-written notes. Click here to try it out. To make things nicer, there's also a protocol handler, so something like obsidian://note-codes/open?code=XX-XX will open the note with the code XX-XX . I tried to make these codes look nice even if they are handwritten. They're just four characters and some of the similar-looking ones are removed (though the plugin is smart enough to know that AA-0A is the same as AA-OA . As usual, it's all open source: https://github.com/SilverEzhik/obsidian-note-codes What's in a note code? Note codes are generated based on a note's name and path, meaning that the note code will change if you rename your note. Each note code consists of 4 alphanumeric characters. For clarity, O , I , L , and U are excluded from the codes, but this plugin will automatically handle these correctly - so OI-LU will automatically be treated as 01-1V when searching. Same with the missing dash or lowercase letters. Note codes are generated by SHA-256-hashing the note's path in the vault, then taking the first 20 bits of the hash and encoding them using Douglas Crockford's Base32 encoding scheme. 32^4 = 1,048,576, which is hopefully enough. 🦔 🦔 🦔