I recently started using Obsidian and have slowly been working it into my daily workflow.

One thing I’d like to be able to do is to use the iOS share sheet to send a URL to Obsidian with the ability to choose where it goes and make a note about it so I can keep track of bookmarks for various projects.

Is there any way to do this inside Obsidian or using iOS shortcuts with Obisdian?

Thanks!

  • laroquephoto
    5•1 year ago

    @merikus I’ve heard good things re Raindrop, but I just wanted to chime in to let you know your initial instincts were right: you can absolutely use Shortcuts and the share sheet to send information to Obsidian. In fact, since Obsidian is all plain text files and markdown, there’s a ton of things that are possible via Shortcuts.

    I’ve written a couple of post about this in the last year (in case it helps):
    https://www.laroquephoto.com/blog/tag/obsidian

    Have fun :)

    • @merikusOP
      2•1 year ago

      These are very helpful blog posts, thank you.

      I skimmed the posts and saw some shortcuts about sending Things links to Obsidian. Is that the post you’re referring to? It seems that method can be adapted to a regular URL, but I’m curious your thoughts.

      • laroquephoto
        3•1 year ago

        @merikus Good :)
        And yes, that post uses the same basic building blocks—it’s just more elaborate. Here’s a screenshot of a simpler shortcut I use to save URLs to a dedicated note. You could add an Ask for Input field to enter a comment when you share, and add this variable to the main Text block (just below the dividing line, for example).

        Sorry about my terrible handwriting…!

        P.S Get Title and Get URL are part of the Get Details of Safari Web Page block