Commands

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All 115 currently documented desktop obsidian commands, grouped by feature. This enumerated catalog is the operational contract; it does not imply undocumented Headless or third-party plugin APIs. Most file-aware commands accept file=<name> or path=<path>. See How to for syntax and Sources for provenance.

Groups

Group	What it does
General commands	Top-level utilities for help, version reporting, reloading the window, and restarting the app..
Bases	Commands for working with Obsidian Bases databases..
Bookmarks	List and add bookmarks.
Command palette and hotkeys	List and execute commands registered by Obsidian and plugins.
Daily notes	Open, read, append, prepend, and resolve the path of the daily note..
File history	Diff, list, read, restore, and open versions from local File Recovery and Obsidian Sync history..
Files and folders	Inspect, create, read, append, prepend, move, rename, and delete files and folders in the vault.
Links	List backlinks, outgoing links, unresolved links, orphans (files with no incoming links), and dead-ends (files with no outgoing links)..
Outline	Print the headings outline for a file as a tree, markdown list, or JSON..
Plugins	List, enable, disable, install, uninstall, and reload core and community plugins.
Properties	List aliases and properties across the vault or for a specific file.
Publish	Manage Obsidian Publish from inside the desktop app: site info, change status, add, remove, and open files on the published site..
Random notes	Open or read a random note, optionally limited to a specific folder..
Search	Search the vault for matching files, return grep-style line context, or open the search view in the app..
Sync	Pause and resume Obsidian Sync, show status, list and restore Sync version history.
Tags	List all tags in the vault, filter by file, and inspect tag occurrence..
Tasks	List, filter, and toggle Markdown tasks anywhere in the vault, including in the daily note..
Templates	List, read, and insert templates.
Themes and snippets	List, install, uninstall, and set themes.
Unique notes	Create a unique note using the Unique note creator plugin's naming scheme..
Vault	Show info for the current vault, list known vaults, and switch vaults from within the TUI..
Web viewer	Open a URL inside the Obsidian web viewer..
Wordcount	Count words and characters in the active file or a specific file..
Workspace	Inspect the current workspace, list and load saved workspaces, manage tabs and recent files..
Developer commands	Open dev tools, attach the Chrome DevTools Protocol debugger, take screenshots, inspect the DOM and CSS, run JavaScript, toggle mobile emulation.

Conventions

• Required parameters are marked (required) in the parameter docs.
• A parameter takes a value, parameter=value. Wrap values with spaces in quotes.
• A flag is a boolean switch with no value. Include it to turn it on.
• Use \n for newline and \t for tab inside multiline content values.
• Add --copy to any command to copy the output to the system clipboard.