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formats evolve over decades, apps over months, intelligence is evolving every day
in terms of pace layers "file over app" defines priorities: invest deeply in proven formats, and don't expect anything at the intelligence layer to last very long
Stockholm doors
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Moderating the Obsidian Reddit has become a nightmare. It looks like at least 50% of the activity is coming from bots. For now we've been able to somewhat successfully curb it with various automated rules, but the volume is only increasing.
Defuddle now has a website!
This means you can use Defuddle anywhere to get the main content of a page in Markdown format.
You can simply add "defuddle.md" before any URL, use it via curl, Skills, CLI, or add it to your app via NPM.
The new iOS share sheet in #Obsidian lets you save YouTube transcripts, and content from within other apps. Everything is converted to durable Markdown files.
Try it in Obsidian 1.13 (beta)
New policy from #Atlassian:
Unless you opt out by August 17th 2026, data from Jira and Confluence will automatically be used for AI training. Some data cannot be opted out at all on some plans.
Defuddle now returns Youtube transcripts!
Paste a YouTube link into defuddle·md to get a markdown transcript with timestamps, chapters, and pretty good diarization
...or if you just want to read it, try the new Reader mode in #Obsidian Web Clipper powered by Defuddle
Obsidian Web Clipper now lets you manage highlights, and stays in Reader mode when you click links.
It's such a pleasant way to browse the web. You can control the colors, fonts, and easily copy anything to Markdown.
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Interactive transcripts are part of Obsidian Web Clipper 1.4
The update is now available on Chrome and Safari. Firefox is a bit slower to approve updates.
https://obsidian.md/clipper
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It's part of Obsidian Web Clipper and doesn't require Obsidian.
It runs on all browsers that support extensions, including mobile (Safari and Firefox).
https://obsidian.md/clipper
Obsidian Reader also works on mobile using Safari on iOS or Firefox on Android.
You can set it as the default option when opening Web Clipper.
mature things tend to get pressured into being less weird over time, so if you're starting from scratch your advantage is that you can be very weird
if you don't start weird you're probably trying to compete inside the local maximum of something more boring than you could be
One thing that makes Obsidian Reader insanely difficult to build is that websites are full of bugs and bad HTML/metadata that I have to work around
e.g. here New Scientist defined author as "#author.fullName}" in the metadata but Obsidian Reader still gets the correct one
what are the chances this thing will be abandonware in a month?
you can make something in a few days but will you commit to maintaining and improving it for the next few years?
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Obsidian Web Clipper is available on all browsers that support browser extensions, including mobile.
The 1.3 update is already approved on Chrome and Safari but may take a little longer to get approved for Firefox
https://obsidian.md/clipper
If you are using MCP to access your data, you are trusting that third party with unencrypted access to your data.
Third-party MCPs are not an option if you value privacy. End-to-end encryption makes MCP effectively useless.
My top ten tips for #Obsidian Bases
Obsidian uses local files, so all your standard terminal commands work for editing/moving/searching/etc
what #Obsidian CLI adds is everything else:
- interacting with the UI
- Obsidian's internal functions, e.g. base queries
- deterministic results like the "orphans" command
- easily create a personal plugin now that your agent can access devtools, console, screenshots, eval, etc
See the CLI docs!
@obsidian@mas.to
It's not because your agent can do something with 12 tool calls and 20k tokens that it should.
For example, #Obsidian CLI has a command called "orphans" that finds files with no incoming links.
Now your agent can get a deterministic answer in 1 millisecond instead of 4 minutes.
Use the saw, fear the saw
https://stephango.com/saw
The future is not creating a power drill from scratch for every task. It's making reliable tools that can easily adapt to the task.
A power drill provides motorized torque in a handheld format. It's more malleable than a screwdriver because you can change the bits.
what do you use #obsidian bases for?
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@gnyman@infosec.exchange it could have been faster but it seems reasonable given how narrow the issue is and how complex the deeper fix was (not just upgrading a dep but adding new approval flows for certain behaviors, which take a while to fully test across platforms)
you also have to consider that every library is being bombarded with exotic, esoteric, and often poorly verified AI-generated vulnerability reports right now — as a small team it makes prioritizing your time difficult
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@alcojor_comic Defuddle doesn't use AI, no. The code is open source so you can look at how it works here: https://github.com/kepano/defuddle
That said, the transcripts come from YouTube and I think they use AI to generate them?
At the end of the video I show how to use Web Clipper's Interpreter to generate a summary of the transcript, but that's optional.
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@notkoalas@iosdev.space @obsidian@mas.to No plans for that. CLI is a much better approach than MCP.
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@holtwick all updates are submitted to all the stores at the same time. Can't do much about the approval timeline :/
See the repo if you want to install manually.
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@elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social @obsidian@mas.to Actually it was released much later than we expected!
And yes, we have a link there to report false positives/negatives. It's best to submit those via Discord.
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@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk Firefox is still a few versions behind because they take forever to approve updates :(
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@danymat@infosec.exchange the first is intentional
the second is a limitation of Orion/Safari
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@aaronjz@mastodon.social You can always open in a new tab, or disable Reader from within the link you followed (via hotkey, context menu, or button)
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@Kdude I originally added it but removed because it annoyingly doesn't have a light mode. However you can make your own themes :)
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@thomasjwebb@mastodon.social @obsidian@mas.to any command palette commands can be run via the CLI
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@freenandes try with Obsidian Web Clipper, it should work since it runs locally instead of via a server (which can be blocked)
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@marc_eu@veganism.social @obsidian@mas.to It doesn't use AI. The way it works is documented in the blog post. It primarily uses an eslint plugin as well as dependency/malware scanners.
https://github.com/obsidianmd/eslint-plugin
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@bucketheadtk421@mstdn.social Firefox is on an old version. Unfortunately it takes forever for them to approve updates :(
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@danymat@infosec.exchange Yes it should work in 1.6.1. Which browser are you using? Maybe close/reopen.
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@gnyman@infosec.exchange Web Clipper uses Obsidian URI (the obsidian:// protocol) to open Obsidian and create the note, but there is no way for Obsidian to know if that was intentionally triggered by you. So it's asking to confirm that you want to create that note. It's directly related to the question you asked.
https://obsidian.md/help/uri