diff --git a/docs/modules/indexes/document_loaders/examples/obsidian.ipynb b/docs/modules/indexes/document_loaders/examples/obsidian.ipynb
index e92b9c2b96..c412f946a7 100644
--- a/docs/modules/indexes/document_loaders/examples/obsidian.ipynb
+++ b/docs/modules/indexes/document_loaders/examples/obsidian.ipynb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
  "cells": [
   {
+   "attachments": {},
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "id": "1dc7df1d",
    "metadata": {},
@@ -8,7 +9,9 @@
     "# Obsidian\n",
     "This notebook covers how to load documents from an Obsidian database.\n",
     "\n",
-    "Since Obsidian is just stored on disk as a folder of Markdown files, the loader just takes a path to this directory."
+    "Since Obsidian is just stored on disk as a folder of Markdown files, the loader just takes a path to this directory.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Obsidian files also sometimes contain [metadata](https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Metadata) which is a YAML block at the top of the file. These values will be added to the document's metadata. (`ObsidianLoader` can also be passed a `collect_metadata=False` argument to disable this behavior.)"
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/langchain/document_loaders/obsidian.py b/langchain/document_loaders/obsidian.py
index df5a5d7e44..982b60bd45 100644
--- a/langchain/document_loaders/obsidian.py
+++ b/langchain/document_loaders/obsidian.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """Loader that loads Obsidian directory dump."""
+import re
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import List
 
@@ -9,10 +10,38 @@ from langchain.document_loaders.base import BaseLoader
 class ObsidianLoader(BaseLoader):
     """Loader that loads Obsidian files from disk."""
 
-    def __init__(self, path: str, encoding: str = "UTF-8"):
+    FRONT_MATTER_REGEX = re.compile(r"^---\n(.*?)\n---\n", re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
+
+    def __init__(
+        self, path: str, encoding: str = "UTF-8", collect_metadata: bool = True
+    ):
         """Initialize with path."""
         self.file_path = path
         self.encoding = encoding
+        self.collect_metadata = collect_metadata
+
+    def _parse_front_matter(self, content: str) -> dict:
+        """Parse front matter metadata from the content and return it as a dict."""
+        if not self.collect_metadata:
+            return {}
+        match = self.FRONT_MATTER_REGEX.search(content)
+        front_matter = {}
+        if match:
+            lines = match.group(1).split("\n")
+            for line in lines:
+                if ":" in line:
+                    key, value = line.split(":", 1)
+                    front_matter[key.strip()] = value.strip()
+                else:
+                    # Skip lines without a colon
+                    continue
+        return front_matter
+
+    def _remove_front_matter(self, content: str) -> str:
+        """Remove front matter metadata from the given content."""
+        if not self.collect_metadata:
+            return content
+        return self.FRONT_MATTER_REGEX.sub("", content)
 
     def load(self) -> List[Document]:
         """Load documents."""
@@ -21,6 +50,10 @@ class ObsidianLoader(BaseLoader):
         for p in ps:
             with open(p, encoding=self.encoding) as f:
                 text = f.read()
-            metadata = {"source": str(p)}
+
+            front_matter = self._parse_front_matter(text)
+            text = self._remove_front_matter(text)
+            metadata = {"source": str(p.name), "path": str(p), **front_matter}
             docs.append(Document(page_content=text, metadata=metadata))
+
         return docs