Using the Obsidian Web Clipper with Denote

I was feeling envious of the聽Obsidian Web Clipper, which is quite fancy, so I thought I鈥檇 try leveraging it for use with聽Denote. My first run at this involves a couple of steps: Tweak the web clipper to save files using Denote鈥檚 format and front matter Save the file without adding it to an Obsidian vault Move the saved file into my Denote folder Here鈥檚 the Web Clipper template configuration I ended up with:...

March 25, 2025 路 282 words

Obsidian is not at all joyful to use

I spent some time in Obsidian again yesterday. I do this once a month or so just to see if somehow it鈥檚 changed into something I鈥檇 like to use. Obsidian is great software, in theory, but I still find it boring and unpleasant to actually use.

January 4, 2024 路 46 words

When a minor annoyance sparks an unreasonable change

This morning, I had trouble finding something that I was certain I鈥檇 written yesterday. I was pretty sure I鈥檇 written it in one org-mode file or another, but it seemed to be missing. Turns out it wasn鈥檛 missing. I just couldn鈥檛 see it because of the way the results show up when searching for something in Emacs. The display of search results when running projectile-ripgrep is pretty awful, and I missed what I was searching for....

November 9, 2023 路 210 words

I just can't get into Obsidian

My thirty-days-of-Obsidian lasted nine days.

July 9, 2023 路 248 words

Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Forcing myself to use Obsidian

July 5, 2023 路 58 words

Saturday, July 01, 2023

Bombs with blinking lights. Obsidian? Harvard. Bluesky.

July 1, 2023 路 179 words