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Obsidian: Create your own Web Clipper

This article shares how to create your own Obsidian web clipper. It will allow you to send web content of your choosing to your Obsidian…

Dec 24, 2022

Obsidian: Create your own Web Clipper

Dec 24, 2022

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Obsidian: Do almost anything (really!) with system commands

This article shares how to execute system commands in Obsidian and display the results. This is extremely powerful as it quite literally…

Nov 19, 2022

Obsidian: Do almost anything (really!) with system commands

Nov 19, 2022

Gareth Stretton

Obsidian: Superfan

Unlike my previous articles, this one isn’t technical (that is, it doesn’t delve into ‘clever solutions orchestrating magic’ within…

2d ago

Obsidian: Superfan

2d ago

Gareth Stretton

Note-taking: Copy Text from Images and Screenshots (OCR) on Mac and Linux

This article shares how to capture text from images in both Mac and Linux. It’s stupidly simple and the quickest way to capture text for…

May 25

Note-taking: Copy Text from Images and Screenshots (OCR) on Mac and Linux

May 25

Gareth Stretton

Text Editing Jiu Jitsu

Occasionally I come across people who do not know how to ‘copy and paste’. And each time I’m bewildered by this, wondering: “how did you…

May 5

Text Editing Jiu Jitsu

May 5

Gareth Stretton

Neovim: Manipulate Markdown Tables with Awk

This article shares how to manipulate markdown tables inside of Neovim using the ‘Awk’ command. The operations include: create table, add…

Apr 20

Neovim: Manipulate Markdown Tables with Awk

Apr 20

Gareth Stretton

Obsidian: Sort Content by Headings with Awk

I’ve been on a quest looking for the best way to create new ‘text editing functionality’ that can be shared across all of my favorite…

Apr 9

Obsidian: Sort Content by Headings with Awk

Apr 9

Gareth Stretton

Neovim: Create your own ‘user command’ to run system commands or scripts — demo use case: Generate…

In this article I share how to add a new Neovim ‘user command’ that will run a system command and output the result to the current file…

Mar 9

Neovim: Create your own ‘user command’ to run system commands or scripts — demo use case: Generate…

Mar 9

Gareth Stretton

Neovim: Manipulate Markdown Tables by Column Name

In this article, I share an improvement to the process that lets you manipulate markdown tables in Neovim. Previously, you specified a…

Mar 2

Neovim: Manipulate Markdown Tables by Column Name

Mar 2

Gareth Stretton

Obsidian (fun): Animated Kitten that Follows Your Cursor

In this article I share how to add an animated kitten to Obsidian that will follow your cursor around. Why? Because it is fun. An…

Feb 28

Obsidian (fun): Animated Kitten that Follows Your Cursor

Feb 28

Gareth Stretton

Gareth Stretton

Entrepreneur, software engineer, electronics enthusiast, creator, dad, husband, inventor. What brings me joy is creating and sharing. https://ko-fi.com/gahrae

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