spacebarObsidian Vaults In Finder
Read a note with its links and callouts intact, without opening Obsidian
Quick Look shows an Obsidian note as plain text, [[wikilinks]] and callouts left raw. spacebar renders them, with the whole vault in the sidebar.
What Renders
[[Note]]linksAliases and#Headingtoo; dead links grayed.![[embeds]]Images, sized with|300; notes inline, one level deep.- Callouts
> [!note], tip, warning and the rest, as boxes. #tagsShown as pills.
The Whole Vault In The Sidebar
Space on a note shows the whole vault, so links reach every note in it and never outside. .obsidian stays hidden unless Finder or Settings › Advanced shows hidden files.
Find a note by what it says: switch the filter’s Names | Contents to Contents and type.
Preview The Vault Folder
Press Space on the vault folder itself. Folder previews are on by default; "folderMode": false in settings.json turns them off. The vault opens on its own README, index or Home note, else an overview.
Edit Without Switching Apps
Click a paragraph to edit, or tick a task; it saves. It redraws when Obsidian changes the file. A reader for Finder, not a replacement for Obsidian.
A free Quick Look replacement. With the optional Space helper, which needs Accessibility, Space opens PDFs, photos, CSV and nearly every other file in spacebar.
More: Markdown, Mermaid, Claude Code, QLMarkdown, compare.
Install
Or paste this in Terminal
curl -fsSL https://spacebar.patebryant.com/install.sh | sh
Free and open source for macOS 13 or later. Try vault-demo in the demo on the home page first.