# Appending Text to Obsidian via Shortcuts

DevFeed: [Appending Text to Obsidian via Shortcuts](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/appending-text-to-obsidan-via-shortcuts-39464.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://akrabat.com/appending-text-to-obsidan-via-shortcuts/>)

Author: Rob

Published: 2025-10-14T10:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Rob Allen](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/rob-allen.md>)

Topics: [Obsidian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/obsidian-md.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>)

Tags: [apple](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apple.md>), [automate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automate.md>), [dialog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dialog.md>), [keyboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/keyboard.md>), [mac](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mac.md>), [obsidian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/obsidian.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>), [shortcuts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shortcuts.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to use Apple Shortcuts and Obsidian's obsidian:// URI schema to append text to the current Obsidian daily note. The shortcut prompts for text, adds the current time as a heading, URL-encodes the content, and opens the URI with the append parameter.

## Source excerpt

Sometimes it's helpful to add some text to my current Obsidian daily note without having to switch to Obsidian, find the daily note and then type my text. To do this, we can use the magic of Obsidian's obsidian:// URI schema and automate the text capture in Apple Shortcuts, with an assigned keyboard shortcut to activate it. This is the Shortcut: There's a number of steps in the Shortcut. Firstly we Ask For some text... continue reading.