# Tip! Linking Obsidian notes to almost anything with Hookmark: a screencast

**URL:** <https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/tip-linking-obsidian-notes-to-almost-anything-with-hookmark-a-screencast/8412>\
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**Created:** [September 14, 2024, 4:20am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/tip-linking-obsidian-notes-to-almost-anything-with-hookmark-a-screencast/8412 "2024-09-14T04:20:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/tip-linking-obsidian-notes-to-almost-anything-with-hookmark-a-screencast/8412/3 "2024-09-23T13:34:34Z")

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Hi,

I’m using both apps and it’s great.

However, hookmark doesn’t work with obsidian in multiple windows:

> [@Obsidian - Hookmark not working in aditional windows (ie not the main widow)](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/obsidian-hookmark-not-working-in-aditional-windows-ie-not-the-main-widow/8435):
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> Obsidian introduced the ability to open various windows. It uses the main window vs child windows model (I don’t know how it’s actually called). Additional windows don’t show the navigation pane (file explorer). If I invoke hookmark’s in a child window, the main window is activated and hookmarks gets it’s document URL not of the document that was opened in the child window where it was activated. So there’s two related problems: Cant get the URL of documents opened in child windows in Obsidi…

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