Notices by kepano (kepano@mastodon.social), page 2

The accounting tool Bench shut down with no warning 3 days before the end of the year. They had raised $110m in venture capital.

The app is no longer accessible. There will be a way to export your data, but it's not available yet.

File over app is not just for individuals.

my partner took me to a ceramics class for my birthday and now I'm thinking we should make all our own plates and bowls and mugs

my 2024 side quest was making all the furniture for our house, maybe 2025 will be ceramics?

context: Bending Spoons is the rollup company that bought Evernote and is squeezing everything they can out of the remaining user base

I always feel like "hate" is a strong term, but in this case it might be understating it

Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown. Never thought I'd see the day.

Google also added Markdown export to Google Docs a few months ago.

https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

here's an example of using Obsidian Web Clipper to extract the transcript from a YouTube video then run it through Interpreter to summarize the key points

you can do the same with your highlights, or any page content you want — and run templates based on URL patterns

@sinbad saving images locally is on the roadmap — do keep in mind that this is solo project for me so far... be patient!

@sinbad that just means this feature will require changes to the Obsidian URI protocol, similar to the other new parameters we added recently to support Web Clipper
https://help.obsidian.md/Extending+Obsidian/Obsidian+URI

#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