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Obsidian 1.8.10 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. - Fixed several issues with numbered lists getting numbered incorrectly, such as when list items have leading spaces, or appear inside neighboring block quotes. - Fixed choppiness when resizing the app window. Mobile: - The navigation bar shows up immediately when keyboard is retracting, instead of waiting for it to finish. - Shared Sync vaults are now included in the list of existing vaults during onboarding. Android: - You can now store vaults inside the app private storage which does not require "All files" permission. - Using physical keyboards and voice-to-text inputs no longer loses focus. https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-04-10-mobile-v1.8.10/

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if you're using Tailwind you should still also use semantic class and ID names in your HTML to make your content more parseable (e.g. read-it-later apps)

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if you're wondering why this or that feature hasn't been added to Obsidian, remember we only have three full-time developers (and not trying to grow the team)

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currently Obsidian for Android requires full file access permissions because it's necessary for certain third-party sync tools and interoperability — but some users prefer narrower permissions in an upcoming version we're adding this option, do the tradeoffs make sense here?

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E. M. Forster predicted the gradual decline of Spotify and Sonos in his 1909 short story The Machine Stops: "I can never be sure of my music now. It gets worse and worse each time I summon it." "Time passed, and they resented the defects no longer. The defects had not been remedied, but the human tissues in that latter day had become so subservient, that they readily adapted themselves to every caprice of the Machine." You can read the full short story here: https://stephango.com/the-machine-stops

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every time I open Spotify more tracks are grayed out, the songs are no longer available... music slowly became the least "file over app" part of my digital life my teenage self understood this better — nothing beats your own collection of MP3s

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analog viewfinders are magical — a tiny window of reality that no amount of pixels can reproduce

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Exakta Varex VX my grandfather bought in East Germany in the early fifties and gave to me. He just turned 94. I love a waist level camera. It's my favorite way to shoot.

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technology always finds the next reproducible thing art always finds the next irreproducible thing

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Obsidian Web Clipper 0.11.3 lets you save Claude and ChatGPT chats as Markdown all the Deep Research references are included as footnotes

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A camera for ideas · July 2022

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opening files in /obsidian, not sped up

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Obsidian Web Clipper now lets you save directly to .md files so you can use the browser extension with any text editor

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great new release: II by DESTIINO/Yuksek

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Obsidian 1.8.9 is now available to all for desktop and mobile - Improved performance for navigating large numbers of files in the file explorer - List auto-numbering now preserves custom starting numbers - When "Smart indent lists" is disabled, the editor no longer automatically renumbers lists - Fixed regression causing large vaults to take significantly longer to load and save the cache https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-03-05-desktop-v1.8.9/

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new project — defuddle > de·fud·dle /diˈfʌdl/ transitive verb > to remove unnecessary elements from a web page, and make it easily readable. Inspired by my work on Obsidian Web Clipper I created Defuddle, an open source library to replace Mozilla's Readability in my projects. Defuddle extracts the main content from web pages. It's a bit more forgiving and tunable to my preferences. Notably, Defuddle uses a website's mobile styles to find unnecessary elements that can be removed from the page. still a work in progress but you can try it out in Obsidian Web Clipper 0.10.9, or install it via NPM

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perhaps it's more accurate to call personal notes an ecosystem rather than a garden — the most memetic notes survive if a note is memetic enough it spreads to other notes as a link... if a note is never linked from/to it slowly becomes extinct

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Fractal journaling and random revisit I use Obsidian’s unique note hotkey to write individual thoughts as they come up throughout the day. This automatically creates a note with the prefix YYYY-MM-DD HHmm to which I may append a title that describes the idea. Every few days I review these journal fragments and compile the salient thoughts. I then review these reviews monthly and yearly. Each time I pull out the most useful things, and draw connections where relevant. Yearly this takes the form of "40 questions to ask yourself every year". The result is a fractal web of my life that I can zoom in and out of at varying degrees of detail. I can trace back where individual thoughts came from, and how they bubbled up into bigger themes. 1/2

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how I use internal links in Obsidian

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Obsidian 1.8.8 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. A few highlights: - Improved performance for navigating large numbers of files in the file explorer - List auto-numbering now preserves custom starting numbers - When "Smart indent lists" is disabled, the editor no longer automatically renumbers lists - Fixed regression in Electron causing large vaults to take longer to load and save the cache https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-02-25-desktop-v1.8.8/

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