A Random Note Widget for Obsidian and iA Writer

Whether you’re a PKM enthusiast (if you don’t know what this means, you’re not) or someone who collects notes of various thoughts and observations, it’s easy for what we create to get buried and never surface again. One of my favourite, and underrated, features of the Bear notes app is the Random Note widget. I had it set on my Thoughts tag and another on Topics, surfacing random notes as part of my daily routine. It was a great way to rediscover something worth revisiting. As I moved to plain markdown files stored outside any single app, it was the key feature I missed. I went on a journey to rebuild it. I’ll save you the details of the journey, but here’s the result and how to build it. Random Thought Widget on my iPhone Home Screen (note: typo in the widget header has since been corrected in the respective note 😅) A note on support: This is for the Apple ecosystem. I’m self-taught, not a developer. This works on my setup, but I can’t troubleshoot yours. You’ll need a reasonable…