Has anyone built a plugin that allows posting from Obsidian directly to Mastodon? (A parallel to Christian B. B. Houmann’s NoteTweet plugin.) This would be sweet!
Agiletortoise recently posted a Post to Mastodon Drafts action that works nicely posting from Drafts app (macOS, iOS) to Mastodon.
That would be great. For my uses having the Drafts action to play with (Post to Fedi, send to Obsidian) is great, thank you.
Can I also recommend that it’s called something more accurate like Post to Fediverse or ActivityPub Poster? Mastodon is but one piece of software that uses ActivityPub.
Definitely interested – came here looking to see if anyone was working on such a thing. I’m not a dev, so it won’t be me… but following this space with interest.
A brief bit of discussion on the topic with Dave Winer (of RSS fame) over here, in case any useful tidbits: Dave Winer ☘️: "@[email protected] -- if people were open…" - Mastodon
I like this idea but it’ll be more useful when Mastodon natively supports HTML and Markdown by default.
Currently the vanilla Mastodon (v4.1 at the moment of writing) does not support HTML or Markdown, although ActivityPub standards allows it. There are modded version of Mastodon and other ActivityPub servers like Pleroma supports HTML and Markdown, but their share of installation is very small.
One workaround is to utilise web hosting services and RSS feeds. I found this quite quick to set up. (I am not super tech savvy). It does create a webpage though, which you may not want. It essentiall looks like Obsidian → GitHub and Vercel → RSS feed → Mastodon.
You will need the following:
Obsidian Digital Garden plugin. The docs here will set you up up to the RSS feed. The plugin allows you to publish from your vault.
GitHub account to host your vault remotely, pushing via the digital garden plugin.
Vercel account to convert your vault to a Vercel hosted web page, and create an RSS feed. You create your GitHub repository from Vercel.
EchoFeed or MastoFeed to push any new published vault notes from your RSS feed to Mastodon. I prefer EchoFeed because it has a few more options, has just been released, and the creator Robb is very active and engaged with its users.
In Obsidian I have set up a macro using the QuickAdd plugin and templates to quickly create a note that finds its way to Mastodon.
I’m still tickering with this process but if you want to follow along here is my VERY drafty published vault and Mastodon account.
Keen to hear of similar setups or straight to Mastodon options too. I feel like there’s a lot of movement in this space right now.