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Obsidian Web Clipper is Amazing
About a month ago kepano, on obsidian.md:
Today, we’re introducing Obsidian Web Clipper a new extension that helps you highlight and capture the web in your favorite browser. Anything you save is stored as durable Markdown files that you can read offline, and preserve for the long term.
Web Clipper is available for all major browsers on desktop and mobile, including Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Brave, Arc, Orion, and many more. It’s also open source under the MIT license.
I started testing the beta a while back, and was intrigued. The release coincided with Omnivore’s demise, which led me to take another serious look.
And then, last week the Interpreter feature was introduced:
Interpreter is a Web Clipper feature that lets you interact with web pages using natural language. Interpreter helps you capture and modify data that you want to save to Obsidian. For example:
- Extract specific text fragments.
- Summarize or explain information.
- Convert text from one format to another.
- Translate text to a different language.
You basically add your OpenAI/Anthropic (and others) keys, and run whatever you selected through the model. This is game-changing. I’m still just playing with this, but now I’m glad my workflow was upended.