Batch download interesting articles with MarkDownload
Read articles in Obsidian by going through #unread tag
Add highlights along the way
Extract highlights, which are copied to top of article, and into a “Seeds” note where I will group highlights from separate articles together
Compose summaries/analysis notes from groups of highlights. These include a link back to the original article(s) in my Obsidian source folder, in case I need to go back for reference.
Hi, good initiative. I don’t use the highlights markdown because not all markdown apps support it, so I use bold instead. Would it be possible make extraction of bold an option?
I don’t mean to add yet another feature request to your plug-in when there have been various ones already, so if it is not convenient just tell me. No har feelings
Don’t worry at all. Not a big hassle and I might personally as well use ** over == in the future. That’s how I used to highlight in the past in all other editors.
With Markdownload, safe the md file directly into the vault.
Add metadata with a template in the source document. Including tag “#reference “
Split horizontally the source file with a new note.
Read the source file and do some highlights with “==”.
Meanwhile, on the second half of the screen (split view), I write some thoughts and a summary of each section. I also use block reference here when my notes need some context. Cool thing is that I can see those highlights I did earlier through the block referencing.
New: I export the highlights from the source file and add them to the bottom of my note. With that help, I now double-check, if my lecture/thoughts/notes accord to all my highlights. Maybe the block referencing from step 6. isn’t needed anymore thanks to the highlight export.
After I am done with my note, I put a tag into it called #weekly
End of the week, I read all my #weekly notes again, create again a new note on top of it and make a note from the previous note I did. This is the final product. Depending on the circumstances, I export that note and add it to my Zotero library.
To be honest, the only friction I have that those steps has to do with Obsidian, not the plugin - I wish I could do highlights will in preview mode (or WYSIWYG).
That I don’t have any other requests probably has something to do with my final needs - I don’t need my final notes/writing to be perfectly/academically cited. If I did, I suppose another point of friction would be shifting my highlights from bullets into foot/endnotes. But that’s pure speculation on my part - as is the plugin is working great in my workflow.
Edit: I guess in step 5, it may be useful for the extrator to add a [[Self referential link to origin note]] at the top of the bullets in the clipboard - recognizing that I paste these into a “Seeds” or other note for further use. This would save the step of me doing so myself.
@den: you cannot make a sweeping statement like that. What you suggest could be an option. I, for one, do want the possibility of highlights extracted when they are highlights in a book, and when I extract the raw text I have a summary.
