I often use ChatGPT to help me solve certain math equations and I would like to use Obsidian as a place to store certain outputs (not the whole chat) into Obsidian. When I copy the output that includes rendered LaTeX and paste it into Obsidian, I would like it to auto-render as LaTeX.
I have tried looking for community plugins that resolve this, but I haven’t found any.
Hello @boya ,
You can use the browser extension I developed, called Save My Chatbot. It supports LaTeX rendering in exports. You can give it a try and let me know what you think: Save my Chatbot (aka Save my Phind)
I’m not looking for an extension to export my whole conversation, only something that can copy the latex and text in a specific output from ChatGPT, that I then can post in Obsidian and it auto-renders the Latex (both inline and blocks).
when doing what you are trying to do I ask ChatGPT to “format the output to be LaTex compatible”… and it works fine…
How much LaTeX can Obsidain actually render? My impression was that it’s only $math$, or is that what you’re talking about?
yes, he talks about “math equations”, that’t what I use it for, like:
$$ \text{deflection} = \frac{W \cdot \lambda^3}{4 \cdot EI} \left( e^{-\frac{a-a}{\lambda}} \left( \cos\left(\frac{a-a}{\lambda}\right) + \sin\left(\frac{a-a}{\lambda}\right) \right) + e^{-\frac{a}{\lambda}} \left( \cos\left(\frac{a}{\lambda}\right) + \sin\left(\frac{a}{\lambda}\right) \right) \right) $$
Unfortunately, this does not work consistently. I’ve tried toying with the personalization feature, but it does not always comply. It’s a shame since I frequently ask chatGPT to explain mathematical concepts, and the output is so well written it’s basically a copy-paste into my vault.
