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How to flip through your Obsidian notes with pinches with Barehands

Point a board orb at your Obsidian vault and open your notes as glass cards with hand gestures.

Who it is forA knowledge worker or writer who keeps notes in an Obsidian vault and wants to browse them without touching a keyboard or mouse.

The problemSearching and opening notes in a folder means switching windows, and hands-free browsing is not an option in the usual note apps.

The outcomeYour vault appears as a notes orb on the board, and tapping the orb unfolds your markdown files as cards you can pinch, drag, and throw.

What you need first

  • A webcam
  • Google Chrome
  • Python 3 (on Windows, run.bat finds a working interpreter)
  • An internet connection on first run, because the page loads MediaPipe and three.js from CDNs

Steps

  1. Run git clone https://github.com/jaredrhod/barehands and then cd barehands.
  2. Open Barehands.json and add an orb such as { "title": "Notes", "path": "~/MyVault", "kind": "notes" }, pointing the path at your vault.
  3. Start the app with python3 server.py and open http://127.0.0.1:8794/stage.html in Chrome.
  4. Tap the ring to make the orbs bloom, then tap the Notes orb to unfold your files.
  5. Pinch-drag a card to move it, or flick it to throw it.

Prompt for your agent

In the barehands repo, add a notes orb to barehands.json that points to <vault path>, then confirm the file is valid JSON. Expected output is the updated config and a note that the Notes orb is ready. Verify the path resolves to a folder that contains .md files.

Caveat. The README says only markdown folders are shown as notes, so attachments and other file types in the vault will not appear as notes.

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