Create notes with your voice using Alexa/GoogleHome & more! [Obsidian Webhooks]

trashhalo · 2021-11-01T12:43:43.147Z

My plugin / service got merged into the community store last night.

GitHub

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The idea was to cut a hole in the internet that routes information from online services to your local vault. A simple example is using ifttt + google home to say things like “okay google write down hotdogs are tacos”. The string “- hotdogs are tacos” will then be appended to a quicknotes.md file.

If that’s confusing to you I also tried to make a video explaining it:

trashhalo · 2021-11-01T16:24:04.055Z

Someone reached out to let me know the manifest id misaligned with the community json. This should be fixed now. Let me know if there are any issues!

trashhalo · 2021-11-02T14:10:20.052Z

Another bug fix just went out. If you installed it and it updated the same note in a loop. This is fixed in 0.0.3.

Shoutout to Piglet in discord and Aaron Bopp on GitHub for reporting.

github.com/trashhalo/obsidian-webhooks

IFTTT Repeatedly sends webhook updates after one trigger

opened 08:30PM - 01 Nov 21 UTC

closed 01:48PM - 02 Nov 21 UTC

Aaron-Bopp

I set up a IFTTT for a Google assistant trigger that then hits the webhook, and …it does insert the text to my vault, but it does so repeatedly after one trigger. Disconnecting and archiving the IFTTT trigger, or closing obsidian doesn't stop it, but logging out of the plugin does. I think it might be related to me being on a university network, so I will update when I get home.

anon27868835 · 2021-11-02T14:22:59.130Z

What is your privacy policy – since you are using a third party to transport user data, it seems reasonable to know how privacy, encryption, access is handled.

trashhalo · 2021-11-04T12:21:45.129Z

I’ll try to do one of those privacy policy generators and add a link.
From a technical sense all your data is stored in Firebase Realtime Database. Their privacy policy is as such Privacy and Security in Firebase
Ive configured the database access control rules to make it so your user can only read your own stored notes and after obsidian syncs them they are wiped from the database.
No extra encryption is implemented other than at the transport layer and encryption at rest implemented at the firebase layer Prywatność i bezpieczeństwo w Firebase
The source code for the service is open source tracked in the same place as the plugin. It would be possible to self host the service on your own firebase account if you know how to do that.

AMGMNPLK · 2021-11-22T19:45:07.221Z

Hi, I think that I’ve found that it need to have Obsidian running in background. Isn’t it?

This is a big disadvantage, because OSs tend to stop background processes. Would be any solution for this?

trashhalo · 2021-11-23T23:57:23.542Z

You don’t need to keep obsidian running. It holds the notes on the server until the next time you use obsidian then it syncs them all down and deletes them.

AMGMNPLK · 2021-11-26T22:25:06.647Z

And, do you know how to make it run in Android when the screen is locked? It works for Google Keep but not for Obsidian.