#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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#25

Hey @AlanLee just to update you on the issue, but I’ve just released Release You can format {date} and {datetime} · jplattel/obsidian-clipper · GitHub this should allow you to template the {date} and {datetime} placeholders!

#26

Hey! I have a problem with plugin. For some webpages it doesn’t do anything. New tab in browser appears, but then nothing gets created in obsidian and ctrl-v pastes nothing.

For this webpage it doesn’t work: shorturl.at/hmzZ0 while for example for wikipedia it works great.

Thanks for the great work!

#27

It clips the selected text! The short-url doesn’t seem to work anymore, so I’m unable to check out what’s going wrong on that specific page you tried to link, sorry about that!

#28

this is brilliant. totally essential to what i’ve been trying to set obsidian up for (evernote replacement)

some right click menu functionality would be great in the future :slight_smile:

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#29

Right click menu something I’m looking at in the short future! :slight_smile:

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