Accessing Obsidian Vaults from DT3

[cgrunenberg]

Is this folder locally available?

[orice01]

Yes- I can access it through finder and Obsidian but can’t add it to DT3. I tried closing out of obsidian first but that didn’t have any effect

[BLUEFROG]

What OS?
And a screen capture from the Finder could be useful.

[lsievert]

I noticed that your Obsidian vault folder is on your iCloud Drive. It’s my understanding that DevonThink works best when you index files and folders on your hard drive. When you use iCloud, you’re syncing twice, once to iCloud and once to DT.

I keep my Obsidian vault on my hard drive and index it to DT. This has been working like a charm for several years and this is how I see my Obsidian files when I am away from my Mac.

[BLUEFROG]

@lsievert

When you use iCloud, you’re syncing twice, once to iCloud and once to DT.

Technically, it’s not syncing to DEVONthink. DEVONthink is just watching that Finder folder. However, we do agree that indexing works best with folders that aren’t under the control of some cloud service.

[orice01]

I want to use the Obsidian app on my phone without paying for an Obsidian cloud/ syncing service which is why my vault is in my iCloud Drive (as opposed to only being able to access my obsidian notes through DT2go app on my phone). My DEVONthink database is stored locally on my computer. I have been reading multiple academic research workflow posts and many people state that they index their obsidian vault folder (located in their iCloud drive based on photos) to DT3 which is why I’m asking here

[orice01]

Update- I was able to index the vault folder w/in the Obsidian folder from with DT3: File>Index Files and Folders… pressing ⌘⇧G and pasting the folder path /Users/orice01/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents

[Harold]

I index my Obsidian notes, which are stored on iCloud, on my DT3. No problems. Would there be any advantage if I moved my Obsidian notes to my Macbook hard drive?

[BLUEFROG]

• Technically, faster access since files are always local to the machine.
• No concerns about delays caused by iCloud syncing your data.

[Harold]

Thanks.

[Magicnemo]

Hi,

Was original question 5 years ( ) back how to open an Obsidian note from Devonthink (indexed Obsidian Vault)?

I use a simple script (Mac ScriptEditor → Javascript) & connect a key (e.g. ctrl+o) for running it with Keyboard Maestro.
It opens the selected note in Devonthink, in a new Obsidian window (using Obsidian Plugin “Advanced URI”)
(This script assumes the Complete Obsidian Vault is indexed in Devonthink)

(() => {
  const app = Application("DEVONthink 3");
  const rec = app.selectedRecords();
  if (rec.length === 0) return;
  

  // Enter name of your vault
  var str_MyVaultName = "My-Vault";


  // Get access to shell command 
  
  var theapp = Application.currentApplication()
  theapp.includeStandardAdditions = true;

  
  // Walk through each selected document in Devonthink
  rec.forEach(r => {

   // Get path to the note (Obsidian path from Vault name)   
   let str_fullPath = r.path()
   let str_slicedPath = str_fullPath.slice(str_fullPath.indexOf(str_MyVaultName) + str_MyVaultName.length + 1);

   // Create an URL (Using Obsidian Plugin "Advanced URI" (https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-advanced-uri)
	let theURL =  "obsidian://adv-uri?vault=" + encodeURIComponent(str_MyVaultName) + "&filepath=" + encodeURIComponent(str_slicedPath) + "&openmode=window"

	// Open the URL using shell script   
      theapp.doShellScript("open " + "\"" + theURL + "\"")
  })

})()