🔎 Tree Search

Raycast Extension

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The extension mirrors the exact same search and quick launching functionality as the Tree Search plugin and requires the plugin to be installed into Obsidian.

Installing

Raycast Extension Unreleased

For now you need to build the extension from source, which is relatively easy:

git clone https://github.com/catacgc/obsidian-tree-search-raycast
cd obsidian-tree-search-raycast
npm install
npm run dev

Configuring

The extension needs to be configured with the plugin socket path from the plugin settings

Invoking for the first time the extension in Raycast, will ask for the socket path to communicate with the plugin. Copy the socket path from Obsidian as instructed above.

Using the extension

Take this sample file in my vault:

Invoking the following example search in Raycast (a node that contains “play” and has a children “raycast”):

Invoking ⌘ + K opens up the command menu. The default one will be contextually selected from the indexed node contents. A few examples from the file above:

TypeScreenshot
Obsidian Page - Open Referenced in that line
Text Line or Headers - Open the line in Obsidian
URL - Open with default Browser
Snippet - Copy Snippet

Multiple Elements

A single indexed line can have multiple elements: multiple vault pages, multiple links, multiple snippets. In that case, the extension will add multiple Quick Commands for each element. You can access the Quick Command menu using Cmd + K

For example, the following note:

- [[Raycast]]
	- The [[Raycast Extension]] is a great way to use the [[Tree Search Plugin]]. Install it manually running `npm run dev`

Default Shortcuts

For each results from the result, besides the dynamic actions above there are two default shortcuts:

  • Cmd + C - copies the entire row
  • Shift + Enter - open the line where that nodes was recorded in the vault

Multiple Vault Support

You can support multiple vaults by adding a comma separated list of vault sockets. Example: /tmp/raycast-Primary Vault.sock,/tmp/raycast-Secondary Vault.sock. Currently, the results are going to be show in the order of the vault socket paths. In this example, matches from the Primary Vault followed by results from the Secondary Vault

The vault results are going to be colored differently as shown below.

Building From Source

To build raycast from source:

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