Obsidian web clipper just released

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Posted by Cyganet
Nov 12, 2024 at 09:22 AM

Using this on mobile Firefox and Obsidian makes it the first full replacement of the old Evernote web clipper on my phone, i.e. able to capture the full text of a page instead of just the link.

Combined with the speedier start-up of Obsidian, this makes Obsidian much more usable on mobile.

Posted by Dellu
Nov 16, 2024 at 05:12 PM

I havn’t tried it on a mobile. But, the desktop version is incredibly accurate.
I havn’t seen any tool that clips this kind of high quality markdown output.

Posted by Dellu
Nov 16, 2024 at 05:14 PM

And, this is great news because many of us are letting go off Evernote.

Now, what I missing from the Evernote app (android) is the camera and the audio recorder. I used to snap almost anything using the camera in the app.

OneNote seems the closest now to get a similar kind of fast snapping.

Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 21, 2024 at 09:19 PM

I appreciate Obsidian Web Clipper’s extensive configurability and the web highlighter feature. I think I’ll be able to use the Clipper instead of Readwise Reader in many cases. Coupled with indexing Obsidian markdown files in DEVONthink, the Clipper also provides a better front door for getting notes into DEVONthink than than DEVONthink clipper itself.

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 28, 2025 at 08:37 AM

Just started using, and have been very impressed by, an Obsidian plugin with the unlikely name of “Various Complements”.

It acts as a kind of mixed spellchecker and reference finder – as you type, it flings up spelling corrections and suggested links to other notes immediately.

Now, normally that kind of thing is horribly intrusive/clunky. But Various Complements does it amazingly well! The dropdown box flickers just below what you’re typing (and I’m a touch typist, so type pretty fast – but also watch the screen all the time, so am the perfect target for this kind of behaviour), but it doesn’t insert anything unless you pause and explicitly instruct it to. It’s both unobtrusive and instantaneous – it doesn’t cause input to slow down (at least, not on a MacBook Pro) while finding links and references at exceptional speed. I’ve already found it super-useful for inserting contacts at speed (I’ve imported my entire Apple Contacts list into Obsidian – again, there’s a plugin for that, but I’ve also used an external exporter to double-check). But it’s also, of course, useful for cross-referencing notes, articles, files etc. stored in Obsidian.

Just thought I’d let other Obsidian users know!

Cheers,
Bill

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