Obsidian October 2021 daily progress and learnings

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For O_O, I’m super excited to be working on a plugin for Obsidian.

My plugin is called Stenography-Obsidian, and it basically links the Stenography API with Obsidian.

Features:

  • highlight any code in Obsidian
  • press the Stenography button
  • the API will replace the code block with a simple English explanation/docstring of what the code does and it guesses the language the code block is written in as well (see demo below)

Learnings:

  • the plugin starter boilerplate is awesome
  • getting selected text from the Obsidian editor is a breeze!
const editor = this.app.workspace.getActiveViewOfType(MarkdownView)?.editor; 
const selectedText = editor.getSelection(); // Get selected text
  • fetch is built in (I got stuck in an axios hole for a while, but @shabegom helped me get unstuck, thank you!)

obsidian-steno

Github:

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