I’ve just discovered Quotebacks via @mediapathic’s post above, and i love the concept and the execution of it.
So, excited to see @mediapathic exploring with you tight integration into Obsidian, that would be awesome.
That said, two feedback items from my initial playing around with it, one small (maybe fixable in the short term), the other larger (maybe will be pre-empted by the prospective integration):
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A slight formatting change to the copied markdown from a captured quoteback: when i paste the copied markdown into obsidian, only the quote itself gets quote-blocked, the source gets left outside the formatted quote, like this:
Quotebacks is a tool that makes it easy to grab snippets of text from around the web and convert them into embeddable blockquote web components.
Source: Quotebacks by Tom Critchlow and Toby Shorin
Maybe that’s by design, but i would def prefer to include the source inside the block, more like this:
Quotebacks is a tool that makes it easy to grab snippets of text from around the web and convert them into embeddable blockquote web components.
Source: Quotebacks by Tom Critchlow and Toby Shorin
…otherwise the source renders ‘apart’ from the quote more strongly than I’d like. But I recognize this may not be standard practice.
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For me, the ideal would be to have option to configure Quoteback browser extension so that quotebacks get stored not only to browser local storage, but also as an md file in a configurable folder (e.g., I’d config this to be my Obsidian vault), and leave in the clipboard the wiki-link name of the quoteback note so that I could then just paste into my current working note.
I realize that #2 may require Obsidian to expose some kind of custom url scheme to address insulation of browser from file system. But wanted to share the feedback/desire anyway.