Create an "I'm feeling lucky" command in Obsidian
This makes use of the Templater plugin's Startup Templates functionality.
The following gist can be created and placed in a location in your vault outside of the scope of your usual notes, eg Utilities/Startup. When you reload or restart Obsidian, Templater will execute the startup script which will add the app:feelingLucky command to Obsidian.
The command looks for files modified more than 14 days ago to surface. It uses Dataview for the notes query and because I'm also using GitHub - zachmueller/spaced-everything, I'm using se-last-reviewed for the date comparison, but you could just as easily use modified if you have that in your frontmatter, or p.mtime for the filesystem modified time. Spaced Everything has a command to Open next review item based on the SuperMemo SM-2 algorithm , but I also wanted a completely randomised option for fun that only drew from the spaced pool.
You can run this as you would other Obsidian commands, or you can add it to your Ribbon with GitHub - phibr0/obsidian-commander which will persist the button between restarts.
Random note plugins
Other random note plugins exist, but they don't do what I want, I don't want to turn this into a plugin, and if you use this you can customise it as you like.
- Core: Random note - completely random, not configurable
- GitHub - ShockThunder/improved-random-note - can exclude folders; filterable by tag
- GitHub - erichalldev/obsidian-smart-random-note: A smart random note plugin for Obsidian - random by search or tag