I noticed that my initial post about my plugin Post Webhook didn’t get much traction—but I believe it holds great potential for the Obsidian community! That’s why I’ve been working on an update to make it even more useful.
What’s New?
With the latest version of Post Webhook, you can:
Select a piece of text or an attachment in your note.
Send the selected content directly to a Webhook endpoint (like n8n, Make .com, or Zapier).
Run workflows that can utilize tools like AI agents to perform specific tasks with the selected content.
Use Case Template: Writing Customer Notes with Real-Time Airtable Data
Imagine you’re working on a report or note about a specific customer in your Airtable database. Instead of manually looking up their details, you can write a query in your note, select it, send it via Post Webhook to an AI agent, and instantly pull their details—like contact information, recent activity, or relevant stats—directly into your note.
Here’s a quick video explainer to show this example in action:
There many things on this forum that are pretty powerful and didn’t get noted as people don’t know what bits make up the whole and what it would ultimately get them.
It would be nice of people who see a gem to provide a writeup to spread word about less known goodies.
I mean we should even be thankful for people who can code share their plugin, even.
That would be great—I’d really appreciate it. I also try to give the plugin some attention, including a few YouTuber videos, though that’s far from my expertise.
With the context note function, you can, for example, use saved prompt notes in an Obsidian folder. These notes can include parameters like --user or --system, allowing you to dynamically instruct AI nodes in your workflows, such as in n8n or Zapier.
For instance, if you need to rewrite a piece of text based on predefined prompts, you can send the note along with its context note (containing your prompts) to your workflow. The --user, --system, and similar parameters are transmitted as separate inputs to the webhook endpoint, enabling seamless integration into your AI node.
If you’d like to hop on a call, say, Discord, Google Meet (web), Telegram, whatever; and maybe give me some pointers about what would best illustrate the plugin’s power(s), noting that I have Zapier FWIW but also /limited time/, I will like to do this.
I won’t make a YouTube video that’s actually beyond my expertise as well, and I hire a student to do that for me on a limited basis.
Note: I have not actually had a chance to trial obsidian-post-webhook yet! I’ve been inundated, but would, after next weekend, make time for this. So please reach out. I assume the private message system is accessible to all users here. Otherwise, you can contact me through manifold avenues from my contacts on Type-IIx | Instagram | Linktree
I’ve been using webhooks to build Zaps today (Zapier). Very, very good stuff. What I am doing with it so far is sending Obsidian Markdown files (original authorship work, articles, videos - content, etc.) from the command palette to a Zapier Webhook (Webhooks for Zapier) API endpoint that in turn uses the Chatsonic AI (a proprietary, SEO and marketing AI service) to craft (1) html & css emails, and (2) bbcode for bulletin board-style messaging boards that I frequent, summary descriptions, and hashtags, and emailing those through SendGrid to myself for import into Visual Studio Code for processing. Very powerful stuff!
Now I need to investigate how/whether the Context Notes (for AI prompts) and/or webhook IDx/Templater can help me… this is going to be something I gradually accumulate rather than solve overnight. I am a coach and an author, after all, not a programmer!
Thank you for your messages, Type-IIx, and my apologies for the delayed response. I’ve been quite busy lately (and I’m also just a hobby coder).
You’ve described a great use case! It perfectly demonstrates the power of combining these tools through the Post Webhook plugin. Obsidian serves as an excellent workspace, while the flexibility of n8n (and presumably Zapier) allows you to create unique, highly customized workflows to process your notes in any way you want.
Regarding the ‘context notes’: I’m not familiar with how AI nodes work in Zapier. In n8n, a basic AI workflow appears as follows:
You can add your prompt as text directly in the node’s fields. Alternatively, you can use one or more expressions (variable input), for example, in the system and AI fields. In this example, your note’s content ends up in the prompt field.
Then, you can send your desired prompts as variables (context notes) through your node to the workflow. For example: You’ve written your latest thoughts in a daily note. Send it to a workflow with a prompt (also stored in your Obsidian vault) that instructs the LLM node to rewrite it for Twitter or, alternatively, for Instagram if you want.
In your AI node, it shows up as follows:
It makes sense! For hobbyist code, this is incredibly powerful stuff!
I’m impressed by n8n, I must say. Zapier might have this kind of workflow for AI, but it’s different from how I usually interface with Chatsonic/Writesonic.
I’ll work with obsidian-post-webhook some more. Limited only by imagination, really!
