Full-text search across the vault. Returns ranked excerpts (~200 chars) — not full notes — to minimise context usage. Supports fuzzy matching and prefix search.

Structured metadata query — filter notes by frontmatter key/value predicates, tag, folder, modified time, and size. Returns compact rows (path + title by default; opt into more via select), not note content. Use this instead of search when filtering by properties rather than text.

Read a note or a span of it — by heading section, block reference, or line range. Returns structured JSON with the content, bytes returned, total note size, and a contentHash to pass as prevHash to edit tools for compare-and-swap. Use search or outline_note first to find the right path and section names.

List notes, optionally filtered by folder prefix or tag.

List all tags in the vault with usage counts. Supports substring filtering, minimum count threshold, and sort order. Nested tags (e.g. area/work) include a parent field.

Create a new note at a vault-relative path. Optionally sets frontmatter and body content. Parent directories are created automatically. Fails if the note already exists unless overwrite is true (prevHash may guard the overwrite).

Delete a note. By default it is moved to the vault .trash/ folder (recoverable by moving it back); pass permanent: true to remove it outright.

Move or rename a note to a new vault-relative path, rewriting wikilinks and markdown links in other notes that point at it so nothing breaks (links inside fenced code blocks are left alone). Parent directories at the destination are created automatically. Fails if the destination already exists unless overwrite is true.

Append text to a note body without touching the frontmatter. Safe for meeting notes, daily logs, and append-only workflows.

Set, update, or delete frontmatter keys without reordering existing keys or changing quote style. Pass null as a value to delete a key.

Return a note's structure — heading tree with offsets, block-reference anchors, and frontmatter key list — without returning any prose. Use this before section reads or patches to discover what sections exist at a fraction of the cost of reading the full note.

Surgically edit a section of a note — targeted by heading or block reference — without rewriting the whole file. Operations: append (add after section), prepend (add after heading line), replace (swap section content). Frontmatter is never touched.

Return every note that links to the target note, with the source line and an optional excerpt. Results come from the pre-built reverse-link index so this is a fast, pure index lookup. Sort order: source path ascending.

Return all outgoing wikilinks and embeds from a note. Each link is marked resolved (with target path) or unresolved. Duplicate targets are de-duplicated; results sorted by line number.

Find and replace text within a note body. Supports literal and regex search, case sensitivity, whole-word matching, and a replacement limit. Frontmatter is never touched. Use dryRun to preview matches before writing.

Get the path and existence status of a periodic note (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly) for a given date. Reads folder/format config from .obsidian/daily-notes.json (daily) or the periodic-notes plugin data.json. Optionally creates the note from the configured template if it is missing.

Append text to a periodic note (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly). Preserves existing frontmatter exactly. Creates the note first (from template if configured) when createIfMissing is true (default).