Notices by kepano (kepano@mastodon.social)

#Obsidian Web Clipper 0.9.8 is out.

You can now choose to save highlights inline, using the ==highlight== syntax. You can also extract the highlights separately.

Here's what I'm working on next for #Obsidian Web Clipper.

Shameless ask — if you've been enjoying the extension, give it a review wherever you downloaded it. It really keeps me going 💜

laziness is the father of invention

Thoughts on Omnivore shutting down (1/3)

Many people enjoyed Omnivore because it was free, but being free was part of its demise.

As an independent app maker, you must have a way to generate revenue or your product will die. As a user you must demand a way to pay makers for the products you love. See my essay: "Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash"
https://stephango.com/quality-software

I didn't personally use Omnivore, but it seems like many Obsidian users loved it. Now the app is being shut down with only a couple of weeks to export your data.

While this is abrupt, it isn't surprising. When a startup runs out of resources, the end is always more sudden than you expect. The dream of making it work persists until the very last moment. (2/3)

Most people would be better off with a simple static site than Wordpress.

Static sites are faster, cheaper, and easier to edit. And because you own your content in plain text you can more easily switch site generator or host. You're can't be held hostage.

Developers: new APIs and a useful checklist to make your #Obsidian plugins and themes feel snappier than ever
https://obsidian.md/blog/2024-obsidian-october/

1. what tools do you use in conjunction with #Obsidian to create/edit/view .md files?
2. how is interoperability of Markdown files useful to you?

What do you want out of an official #Obsidian web clipper?

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many #Obsidian plugins were created by someone scratching their own itch, and discovering that hundreds of thousands of people have that itch too

could it be???? 🤩

iOS 18 adds a "keep downloaded" option for iCloud folders — should help #Obsidian load much faster.

@tenth I guess it's to make space on your device, but I agree it's a bad default

somehow we accepted that this is what a room looks like at night

@joshwayne I may have to start doing that too

what if email was file over app?

m2dir is a proposed format to store emails as local files

https://bitfehler.srht.site/posts/2024-04-15_m2dir-treating-mails-as-files-without-going-crazy.html

I've been trying to think of every mixed RTL/LTR edge case I can, and finally feeling good about it

if you like to write in both directions within the same note, #obsidian 1.6 will provide the smoothest experience I have seen — will be in the next beta soon

a seven-person team trying to advance the idea that users should own their data vs. three multi-trillion dollar companies fighting for the opposite

Still very WIP, but I am revamping the #obsidian UI for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Dhivehi, Hebrew, Farsi, Syriac, Urdu.

So many little questions I had never thought about:

- Which way does a "back" arrow go?
- Do progress bars fill right-to-left?
- Are slashes in paths reversed?
- Do window buttons get mirrored on major OSes?

This has been an eye-opening experience. Using start/end values rather than left/right is something I will think about with every project going forward.

click the toggle on jsoncanvas.org to see the JSON Canvas site in JSON Canvas format

Exporting = one-way door
File over app = two-way door

Do not mistake the map for the territory.

Many apps allow you to export your data. That's better than nothing, but not the same as editing files directly. An export is a representation of your data. It's an output of the source. It's a one-way door.

The file over app philosophy does not make a distinction between data and file. Both are one and the same. The source is the output, and vice versa. It's a two-way door.

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