Quick Notes — and your Obsidian vault

Quick Notes is storage, not a queue: things you write here are meant to be read again. Anything you would otherwise scribble on the back of an envelope — a wifi password, the name of that plugin, what the plumber said.

Writing a note

Type in the field and press Add note. Click an existing note to edit it and press Update. The header counts what you have.

Connecting an Obsidian vault

This widget can work directly against a folder on your own disk — typically an Obsidian vault — instead of keeping notes inside the app.

Press Connect to Obsidian and choose the folder. From then on:

• Notes are real .md files in that folder. Obsidian sees them instantly, and so does anything else that reads the folder.
• Editing a note in Obsidian and pressing Refresh here shows the change.
• Disconnect stops the connection; the files stay where they are, untouched.

If you already had notes inside the app, you get asked once whether to copy them into the vault as .md files. Either answer keeps your local notes — nothing is deleted to make the move.

Browser support

Choosing a folder needs the File System Access API, which today means a Chromium browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc) on desktop. In Safari, Firefox or on a phone the widget says so plainly and offers to open Obsidian instead of pretending the button is missing.

Browsers also forget folder permission from time to time — after an update, or a long gap. When that happens the widget asks you to Reconnect the vault, one click, same folder. That is a browser security rule, not a fault in the connection.

Where the notes live

Connected to a vault, your notes are files on your machine and never leave it. Not connected, they live in your browser's local storage on this device. Either way they are not something we hold. See Your data and privacy.