Use case or problem
General problem: I want to take notes in firefox that live in obsidian. I don’t want to open a new obsidian window and move it to the side of my browser. I don’t want to open a browser in my obsidian window. I want to be able to use a basic text editor in every browser window that I have across my workspaces. If I want to take notes on something I’m watching or reading, I don’t want to change my focus, navigate to my obsidian workspace, find the right panel, find the right note for what I’m writing, find the right line, etc. It takes me out of the flow. It has high friction.
How is this different from Webclipper? – The intended purpose of Webclipper is storing a website, and it maps 1:1 with the site. I want to have actual notes that live in a sidebar, that serve as a mini-obsidian vault, that aren’t 1:1 with any site. I want to have half/third of my browser be an obsidian note (or at least a very basic obsidian note) whenever I want.
The Mozilla extension “Firefox Notes” is great for this. It’s a side panel that opens a simple text editor and you can save files there. While I depend on obsidian for deep work, I find myself using the mozilla side panel way more for just taking off-the-cuff notes because of how low friction it is. However the mozilla extension is very bare bones and obviously it doesn’t sync with obsidian.
Proposed solution
Basically what “Firefox Notes” already does, with some way to automatically sync/export the notes created in the browser with an obsidian vault in a similar fashion as the existing webclipper.
What Firefox Notes does is bring up a sidepanel. The sidepanel contains “New Note” and a list of notes. You click on the note, enter something. The first line becomes the title. Basic text formatting, auto save, delete option.