Feature Request: Allow workflow to find & open Canvas files

[kenanmike]

Feature Requested

New(ish) Canvas files are of a different format than standard Obsidian markdown, so don't show up in the Shimmering Obsidian workflow. But they are quickly becoming one of the flagship features of Obsidian, so it would benefit almost all users to have those Canvas files accessible with this workflow.

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Checklist

• [X] The feature would be useful to more users than just me.
• [X] I have checked the feature overview and the feature doesn't already exist.
• [X] Feature Requests regarding daily notes will not be implemented, since there are other Alfred workflows that do focus on daily notes already.
• [X] If it is an entirely new feature: The requested feature makes more sense to be implemented in Alfred than in a plugin. Please also explain why.

[chrisgrieser]

The Alfred workflow already supports searching for canvas files?

[kenanmike]

Hmm when I search the name of the Canvas note (Dashboard) it doesn’t come up (Dashboard1 is a different normal MD note)

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[chrisgrieser]

Hmm when I search the name of the Canvas note (Dashboard) it doesn’t come up (Dashboard1 is a different normal MD note)

Try updating to the latest version of the metadata-extractor plugin and rerunning osetup afterwards.

If you still cannot find canvas files then, that would be a bug. In that case, could you open a bug report? Reason being that the bug report form asks for various kinds of information I will need to investigate the issue then.

[kenanmike]

Did the below you kindly suggested so just created a bug report 👍

Hmm when I search the name of the Canvas note (Dashboard) it doesn’t come up (Dashboard1 is a different normal MD note)

Try updating to the latest version of the metadata-extractor plugin and rerunning osetup afterwards.

If you still cannot find canvas files then, that would be a bug. In that case, could you open a bug report? Reason being that the bug report form asks for various kinds of information I will need to investigate the issue then.