Obsidian Note Codes

Obsidian Note Codes

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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?

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