I usually archive all the articles I read with Wallabag.
However since I’ve discovered Obsidian I felt that it might be better to save the articles as Markdown files and add them to an Obsidian vault in order to see possible connections.
I haven’t found a clipper yet which solves the following use case which is why I’ve decided to hack together my own version.
Use Case:
- Save only the content of an article to a Markdown file.
- Add the URL and the current date to the article.
- Possibly add the author of the article.
- Let add links to the article right when he saves the article.
The extension I’ve created so far is based on the following Firefox extension:
The reason why I’ve chosen this extension is because it is already halfway there.
Because it lets you download a Markdown file with only the content of article.
It uses the Firefox Readability JavaScript library to achieve this.
Another extension I’m using as inspiration is the Wallabager extension because it does the tagging quite well:
If someone is interested to try a very basic first version you can find it here:
However please be aware that I’ve never created a browser extension before.
Currently it only downloads the article and adds my usual header to the beginning of the file.
The next step will be to add a pop-up where the user can directly enter the links he wants to add to the header. When this is done I plan to publish it officially.
Something for the future might be to make the header customizable.
