#43

Huh. Rebooting my machine after installing Obsidian fixed it.

#44

Hello @kepano and @Moonbase59 !!!

First of all, I wanna thank you for sharing this bookmarklet with us. The ability to save an URL in markdown at as specific folder is amazing and very important in many of my workflows. Thanks!

I’m writing this message because I wanna share with you guys an idea that I have. Maybe this is something that you guys want to implement as a new feature.

I have a bunch of URL inside Obsidian (in notes) that I want to extract the content. Today I have to use the command Follow link under cursor to go to Safari and then use the bookmarklet to extract the content back to Obsidian.

A few days ago I saw this plugin at our community store: Javascript Init that gives us the feature of execute javascript scripts inside Obsidian.

Then I start to think: How about using this amazing bookmarklet to extract a URL content from Obsidian → Obsidian.

This way we could achieve both words for dealing with URLs:

  • Safari to Obsidian;
  • Obsidian to Obsidian.

I reach the developer of Javascript Init and he said that is possible. More information here

Unfortunately I don’t have skill to make this happen :frowning:

My objetive with this post is to show a new workflow for this bookmarklet and maybe @kepano and @Moonbase59 like this ideia and want to make this happen :slight_smile:

Thanks for reading this and have a great day!

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#45

Thank you very much! This booklet has changed my life significantly. It works perfectly on my Mac. However, it doesn’t work on my Window PC. When I run the booklet(with Chrome browser), it asks like “Will you open obsidian?” and if I choose “yes”, nothing happens. Does this booklet work only on a Mac or am I missing something?

#46

Thank-you. This, and the refinements on github are great. After scanning some documentation, I think Obsidian has great potential but has ignored their most common use case. Maybe I am missing something? I hope I am.

The documentation describes a note-first approach, and a link-first approach. If you are taking notes independent of the rest of the world this is ok. But I read web pages that Google and new services push to me constantly, or search, and almost all of my notes are web page-first. I used to share these to Pocket (terrible organization of pages) or other things. I resort to sharing them to an email message to myself to read the next day. What I want to do is push them to Obsidian, refine the metadata, and use existing or new tags to fit them into the tagging scheme.

I rarely start with notes. I am absorbing info that I want to tag, develop insight from, and link into more complex structures later.

A lot of potential because it is so flexible, but it is so horribly awkward to use for this type of thing, that people have to resort to bookmarklets that are much appreciated byt only [art of what we need. Obsidian can be morphed into something highly usable, but I have a day job.