Danymat
kepanoObsidian Bases + Obsidian Web Clipper is the web archival tool I always wanted
replaces my read-it-later app and saves everything to local markdown files
Malcolm Bastien@kepano I can't wait to use Bases to replace my Goodreads library.
Grady Fort@kepano I am happy I saw this right now. I am in the process of exporting a couple hundred articles from Pocket since users can only export until October 8, 2025 [Mozilla update about shutting down Pocket](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/)
Old Breton@kepano How do you manage links you find in your phone?
@oldbreton same, it works on mobile too
ToddZ ⓋVery cool! I don't have access to Bases yet but looking forward to it.
It's a little hard to follow the quick gif example -- would love if you'd share a little tutorial for integrating Clipper and Bases someplace.
Patrick Mackaaij@kepano As a top 1% reader of Pocket I wonder how Obsidian would work with many articles. And whether you have an importer coming up :) https://help.obsidian.md/plugins/importer
Bryan@mackaaij I use a database to organize and view over 1 thousand different notes' metadata using the third party Dataview. It's a little slow to load the bigger tables but it has never crashed -- and the speed is likely my aging computer and not the software itself. I'd wager that Bases would handle the tasks fairly similarly.
Bob Doto 📿 🗃 🚩@kepano wowowow. So great!
@kepano I'm very excited about getting to use Bases (especially once it will be supported by Publish), and this is a great idea for read-it-later. Thanks!
Thibault's alt text account@kepano
#alt4you (feel free to edit the post and add the (alt) text to the image itself):
Think it's mostly correct:
I started by browsing Hacker News and opened an article about Mozilla shutting down Pocket. I used the Obsidian browser extension to clip it. The article appeared in Obsidian with its properties and was automatically added to my "Read later" table.
Next, I went back to Hacker News, found a blog post called "Planetfall," and clipped that to Obsidian too. It also showed up in my "Read later" list. I then did the same for an article about someone building their own audio player.
After that, I switched to an already open browser tab showing an Obsidian Help page about "Bases syntax" and clipped that as well.
Back in Obsidian, while viewing the "Bases syntax" note, I marked it as "read" in its properties, which also updated its status in the "Read later" table. I then went through the table and marked the other three articles as "read." Since the table was filtered to "Unread," I changed the view to "All" to see everything. I also added a "Date published" column to the table.
Finally, I opened the file explorer in Obsidian to show the "Clippings" folder where all these saved articles reside as individual notes, alongside the ".base" file for my "Read later" setup.
Jack
mijovi@kepano I was just looking at self-hosting Wallabag or readeck for a read-it-later system. Strongly considering rolling early access for Bases now...