#5

Hey there! I get it and respect your choice! I’ll have a look on how hard it would be to convert it :slight_smile:

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#6

thanks a lot man, I appreciate it, I’ll keep an eye on this project and will test it on chrome either way!

#7

Hey Santi! Good news I’ve had some time to convert this plugin to Firefox as well. Right now it’s not distributed or signed yet, but you can install it manually for now!

If I have some more time I’ll see if I can get the into the stores of Firefox & Chrome.

There’s a manual for the install in the readme at: https://github.com/jplattel/obsidian-clipper :slight_smile:

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#8

Thanks a lot man, you are epic. I’m checking it out right now. Truly appreciate your hard work!

#9

Hey Joost,
I run into some issues setting things up.

I opened an issue on github, thought it might be better to keep track of things there, but feel free to let me know if you prefere it here, whatever you think might be more discoverable for other users.

Thanks again man, looking forward to using it!

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#10

Thanks so much for this, works amazing! When I previously used OneNote I loved that it would automatically copy the URL when you copy and pasted from the browser. So this extension is a great feature that saves a ton of time, and helps make notes better because the URL is automatically included and you can trace back exactly where you got the data from.

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#11

I’m new to plug-ins and Obsidian more generally. I have installed the plug-in and it seems to be installed correctly - invoking it opens a new tab that seems to do stuff. But nothing shows up in my note. I changed the vault and the note it writes to. Any ideas?

I’m running Obsidian 0.9.7, Chrome 86.0.4240.111 on macOS Catalina

A little more troubleshooting: I was able to catch the dialog box and allow the site to open an associated application. In Obsidian, I now see “Opened File “Inbox.md”” (what I called my clippings file) but nothing gets appended to the document.

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#12

The plugin still requires to you paste it into Obsidian (ctrl/cmd + V). I can’t interact outside the browser after opening Obsidian, thus the pasting is still required. Once the protocol/url interface allows for note creation it will be automated :slight_smile:

You can automated the pasting by chaining two shortcuts in Keyboard Meastro for example. One for activating the plugin, and the second being pasting (ctrl/cmd + V)

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#13

That makes sense. I don’t use Keyboard Maestro but I’ll look into it.

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#14

Got a Keyboard Maestro macro working. Thanks!

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#15

Thanks! It’s working fine for me(:smile:

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#16

Just pushed the new version, with a {zettel} template and an option to test your configuration :slight_smile:

#17

Hi, new to Obsidian and MAC 10.15.7 and Chrome v 87. Using Git and src from that upon unpacking get an error “Unrecognized manifest key ‘applications’.” regarding Gecko. Seems related to Firefox port?

The extension seems to work fine!!

I like the concept of typing browsing activity to Obsidian.

Thanks and appreciate the hard work.

#18

Great plugin!
I like to use the {title} placeholder twice, once at the top of the document, then again in the reference link.

Something like this:

# {title}
> {clip}

Clipped from [{title}]({url}) on {date}.

Using any of the placeholders a second time instead renders the placeholder so my last line says Clipped from [{title}](https://...

Would it be possible to allow the placeholder twice?
I could obviously use a ‘naked’ url as an acceptable workaround, but I thought it might be worth an ask.

As an example, here’s a template that uses all of them twice:
{clip}, {date}, {datetime}, {title}, {zettel}, {url} -- {clip}, {date}, {datetime}, {title}, {zettel}, {url}

Results when highlighting the words “Chrome clipper extension” on this page:

Chrome clipper extension, 2021-01-29, 2021-01-29T18:08:30, Chrome clipper extension - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum, 202112912830, https://forum.obsidian.md/t/chrome-clipper-extension/6771 -- {clip}, {date}, {datetime}, {title}, {zettel}, {url}

Thanks again for the useful extension, looking forward to any updates!

#19

Hey @Erisred! Thanks! Supporting multiple placeholders shouldn’t be a big change… I’ll have a look tomorrow! :slight_smile:

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#20

Alright! Just published 1.4.0 that includes the possibility to use the placeholders as many times as you want! :slight_smile:

You can download the new version here: https://github.com/jplattel/obsidian-clipper/releases/tag/1.4.0

#21

Just awesome. Thanks for listening, and for the quick turnaround!
Definitely works as I’d like it to now.

Just so you’re aware, the extension does throw an error, but it does not affect use in any way I can see, at least not in the small amount of testing I’ve done.

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Again - thanks a ton!

#22

Thanks! Yeah the error is due to the fact I’m trying to get it to work with Firefox as wel… But both stores rejected the plugin due to the fact it’s using a obsidian:// url… I might as well remove it for now. Anyway, thanks! :smiley:

#23

Thanks for your work. It’s awesome!

But there is a little problem for me.

Since I’ve changed my daily note format from YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY.MM.DD ddd, I want to adjust the {date} of clipping format to adapt to it. But it doesn’t seem to work.

Now I have to type [[YYYY.MM.DD ddd]] manually. Hoping it could be automatically done soon. :smile:

#24

Hey @AlanLee! Thanks! The date formatting is set right now, but I can foresee more people having issues with this, so I’ll put it on the feature list :slight_smile:

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