Combine news articles from same day to new "newspaper" page

[justice]

What I’m trying to do

Hi, I am fairly new to Obsidian and already facing a “problem”. I am downloading interesting news articles with the webclipper into my vault. They will get posted into a dedicated folder with subfolder for the current date. So far so good.
I would LOVE to now be able to automate the process of creating a new note (like daily note) with a predefined layout/template.
Headline
date
downloaded web articles from the webclipper in a predefined “grid” with the summary and title visible. (and when clicking on it, it opens the full article from the separate note.
Because sometimes the summary is only 1-2 sentences and sometimes longer the grid needs to adjust to that, like variable blocks of different lenghts.

Things I have tried

I searched online a bit to find plugins which may already solve the purpose, without any success. I guess I need a combination of different plugins, templates / configs to achieve this, but my understanding of everything is still limited.
any help is much appreciated!!!

[dawni]

You might want to check out Bases. https://help.obsidian.md/bases/

It has everything you mentioned except for summary auto-resizing. The way Bases is designed, you would select a consistent size for all articles.

You can customize it (with a formula) so that it shows the articles for whichever daily note you’re in at the moment. That gives you the option of (a) “embedding” the base in each note, so that when you open the note, the articles are shown, or (b) using the base as a separate file whose contents change depending on which daily note you’re looking at.

[justice]

Hi dawni,

thanks for your reply and suggesting the core plugin Bases. I will have a look at it. it seems quiet overwhelming right now with all these options but may be something I am looking for.

The summary or rather first paragraph is automatically taken from the webclipper as a property, so I could simply use this as the foundation. I just don’t know what happens if that paragraph has different lengths on different articles, or if there is an option to automatically summarize the whole article into 2-3 sentences (preferably without any kind of AI..)

[dawni]

The “automatically summarize” part is going to require AI unless the page you’re clipping already presents that 2-3 sentence summary somewhere. Or unless you’re okay abruptly cutting off the full summary after a set number of characters.

it seems quiet overwhelming right now

Oh, it’s not hard! It might seem more challenging than it really is. Here…

Three (or five) quick steps if you’re up for it:

1. Create a base.

   In the command palette, it’s “Bases: Create new base”. Or right click the file explorer and select “New base”.

2. Near the top right of the base, click “Filter” and enter “where Summary is not empty”, in this manner:
   

   
   
   (Replace Summary with the name of your summary property, if it has some other name.)

3. Click “Properties”, and select “Summary” (or whatever yours is called):
   

   

See how it looks.

To have taller rows:

4. Click “Table” at the top left of the base then click the arrow next to the popped-up option named “Table”:
   
   
5. Expand “Row height” and select a height of you choice:
   
   

See what you think.

Whether you continue with it or not, you are now a maker of bases .

[justice]

Hi dawni,

thanks for the explanation and step by step guide.

It was easy to follow and I was able to filter the articles in a new note. It was unfortunately not what I wish I would achieve, because for my “dream layout” it is too static. But I may be using it for another project with books, as I found plenty of tutorials which recommend bases to build a library in Obsidian.

[dawni]

Ah, well, glad it might help in other ways anyway.

Good luck with finding a solution that nicely fits the entire summaries!