I use the amazing Markdownloader by @death.au for my Read Article Later needs.
But, the files end up in the Downloads folder. Wouldn’t it be great to move .md files immediately to an Obsidian folder for future reference?
Enter Apple’s Automater.
Here is how:
- Open Automater and make a new Folder Action. Select “Downloads”.
- Run an Applescript inside this automation.
tell application "Finder"
move (every file of folder "Downloads" of home whose name extension is "md") to POSIX file "!replaceMeWithPathToYourObsidianFolder" with replacing
end tell
- Tell your browser to automatically download files without asking for it’s location. (It’s somewhere under
Downloads
in settings.) - Use MarkDownloader as normal. Click ‘Download’ in the extension’s pop-up.
Voila. The article gets moved to your Vault in the background.
Extra tip: I added a #readlater tag to the downloaded files with the MarkDownloader options. Then used the Dataview plugin to list all of the ‘up next’ articles with that tag.