Obsidian Clipper

Obsidian Clipper

A small chrome plugin that let's you easily clip things to Obsidian

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What is Obsidian Clipper?

"Obsidian Clipper" is an unofficial Chrome extension that simplifies clipping online sections to Obsidian notes. It offers direct content transfer with optional markdown format support. With Obsidian Clipper, researching and note-making have never been easier.

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Stats
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Rating: 4.09 (22)
Version: 0.5.0 (Last updated: 2022-08-17)
Creation date: 2020-11-06
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • clipboardWrite
  • storage
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • https://jplattel.github.io/obsidian-clipper/clip.html
Size: 316.42K
Email: Click to see
URLs: Website
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

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Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Summary

This is an unofficial clipper for Obsidian that allows you to easily clip a selection to a note in Obsidian. Clip a selection in Chrome with or without markdown support to Obsidian.

User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Clips perfectly and is customizable
  • Very helpful in pasting web text into Obsidian along with the source URL
  • Works in multiple operating systems including Mac OS and Ubuntu
Cons
  • Does not work with YouTube comments
  • Formatting issues when using the same note for clippings
  • Issues with the extension running on certain versions of Chrome and certain operating systems like Kubuntu and OSX
Most mentioned
  • Great for clipping web contents to Obsidian
  • Issues with incorrect or missing formatting
  • Problems with images not appearing in Obsidian after clipping
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Safety
Risk impact

Obsidian Clipper is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Obsidian Clipper has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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