Use case or problem
Obsidian supports clipping some blocks of information from the web with its new awesome Obsidian Clipper. It allows creating a new note for every clip, or adding the clipped information to an existing note. The existing note must be identified by name, which can be inferred from its title, domain, or fixed name.
There are two examples:
- I’m searching for goods on an advertisement site and want to compare some offers by clipping descriptions and prices. Each good is named differently, so I cannot use the title as the note name.
- I’m collecting information for a new scientific article. I can grab some paragraphs from different websites. So I cannot use the URL domain as the note name.
In these examples, it’s preferable that all clips are stored in one certain note. However, without an option to “allow prepending/appending to the current opened note,” I cannot do this.
Proposed solution
Extend Obsidian URI for Prepend/Append content into note to treat note with set name to empty string as current (active) note. If no note is open, create a new default “Untitled” note and add the content to it. Open this note to make active.
Current workaround (optional)
One workaround is to clip all pieces into a daily note or into a note with a fixed name, and then afterwards move the information to the correct note. However, this isn’t very handy.