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Obsidian macOS Master Commander

Obsidian leaves most of its commands unbound, and a deck cannot press a hotkey that does not exist. This one asks Obsidian to run the command by name through its own command line interface instead, so the unbound half arrives working and you bind nothing.

90commands
13categories
13dials
6bundled profiles

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What it does

All 90 commands fire. Obsidian gives 49 of them a default hotkey and those send the Mac chord. The other 41, its daily note, folding, sidebar, template and canvas commands, run through the command line interface.
Thirteen dials. Six read the vault live on the touch screen: the file tree, every command your Obsidian registers, backlinks, a vault readout, your clipboard history, and a canvas minimap. Seven work the app directly, from text size and zoom to outline folding and tab cycling.
The Obsidian Command action runs any palette command, core or community. Its dropdown reads live from your running app, so Smart Connections, Templater, Copilot and every plugin you add appear on their own.
Six bundled profiles, one each for the Stream Deck, Mini, XL, Stream Deck +, Neo and Stream Deck + XL, with Easy Link on the top left key of all six.
Click Sync and a key reads its real binding straight out of your keymap. 61 of the 90 commands sync this way, and the ones that cannot say so on the button.

What you need

The Obsidian desktop app 1.12.4 or later on macOS 13 or later, and Stream Deck software 6.9 or newer. Turn on Obsidian's command line interface once, under Settings, General, Advanced. This is the macOS listing. The Windows edition is Obsidian Hotkeys.

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Support

Good to know

Keystroke keys need Accessibility, and macOS never prompts for it. Add Elgato Stream Deck under System Settings, Privacy & Security, Accessibility, then quit and reopen the Stream Deck app. Without it those keys show an alert triangle.
The first time a key talks to System Events, macOS asks whether Elgato Stream Deck may control it. Click OK. If you denied it, the switch is under System Settings, Privacy & Security, Automation, Elgato Stream Deck.
If a key alerts or a dial screen stays dim, Obsidian's command line interface is off. Turn it on under Settings, General, Advanced. It needs Obsidian 1.12.4 or later, and on macOS a command line press does not launch Obsidian, so keep it running.
Keystrokes go to Obsidian only while it is the frontmost app, and they arrive as Mac chords. Where the property inspector shows Ctrl your Mac sends Command, and word-wise cursor moves use Option.

True of every plugin we make

Every key carries the app's own shortcut for that command, and every key is remappable. Type your combination into the property inspector or click Capture and press it once. Where an app leaves a command unbound, the key still reaches it by the route that app exposes.
Keystrokes go to the front window and nothing steals focus, so keep the target app in front when you press.
Every command has its own drawn key art, so the deck reads at a glance instead of listing shortcuts.

Read the full quick fixes, or see this plugin on the support hub.

Still stuck? Email [email protected] with the plugin name, your Stream Deck software version, and what you pressed versus what happened. A human answers.