QuickAdd

One hotkey to log a line, create a note, or run a whole workflow.

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What you can build

Each workflow you set up in QuickAdd is called a choice. There are four kinds:

• Template creates a note from a template, with its name, folder, and properties filled in. For example, a meeting note named with today's date in your Meetings folder.
• Capture adds text to a note without opening it. For example, a timestamped line under the Log heading of today's daily note.
• Macro runs several steps in a row: other choices, Obsidian commands, scripts, and AI prompts. For example, look up a book online and create a note with its details.
• Multi groups choices into a folder in the QuickAdd menu. For example, a Journal folder holding your daily log and gratitude captures.

Placeholders fill in the details each time a choice runs: {{DATE}} inserts today's date, {{VALUE}} asks you for text, and {{FIELD:project}} suggests the project values your notes already use. Others insert links, your selection, or the clipboard. See format syntax for all of them.

QuickAdd also has:

• Forms: collect every input on one page, with dropdowns, date pickers, and sliders.
• Scripts: run your own JavaScript as user scripts, and call the QuickAdd API from scripts, Templater, or other plugins.
• Triggers: run choices from obsidian://quickadd links, Apple Shortcuts, launchers and schedulers, or the Obsidian CLI.
• AI: send prompts to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible provider, including local models, with the AI Assistant. AI features stay off until you turn them on.
• Packages: export your choices as a package and import them into another vault.

QuickAdd works on desktop and mobile. The Obsidian CLI is desktop-only.

Get started

1. In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins, search for QuickAdd, then install and enable it.
2. Build your first choice with the one-minute first workflow guide.
3. In Settings → QuickAdd, click the ⚡ next to a choice to add it to the command palette (on mobile, tap ⋮ → Enable in command palette). Then give it a hotkey in Settings → Hotkeys. You can also run any choice with the QuickAdd: Run command.

Using Templater? Add your template folder in QuickAdd's settings and QuickAdd: New note from template works right away. Coming from Templater shows the QuickAdd way to do each Templater job.

Learn more

• Examples: complete workflows for daily notes, inboxes, meetings, books, movies, and more.
• Scripting guide: writing your own scripts when the built-in steps aren't enough.
• FAQ: answers to common questions.
• llms.txt and the MCP server at https://quickadd.obsidian.guide/mcp: the docs in a form AI assistants can read.

Help and feedback

• Ask questions and share workflows in Discussions.
• Report bugs and request features in Issues.
• Report security problems privately, as described in the security policy.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before you start: comment on the issue you want to work on and wait for a go-ahead before writing code.

Support QuickAdd

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License

MIT