Obsidian vault

The user keeps a personal Obsidian vault as plain markdown files synced via iCloud. The vault is just a directory tree, so all standard Unix tools work — no Obsidian app required to read or write notes.

Where it lives

/Users/fredrik/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/personal

Because the path contains spaces and tildes, always quote it in shell commands. A useful shorthand is to assign it once per session:

VAULT="/Users/fredrik/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/personal"