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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

Real Estate — How to Calculate Your Monthly Mortgage Payment

This brief guide will help you quickly calculate your monthly mortgage payment using Excel or an app on your phone.

Jan 18

Real Estate — How to Calculate Your Monthly Mortgage Payment

Jan 18

Obsidian: My First Plugin “Shell Commands” — A Human Story of What Could Have Been, and a Call to…

I finally decided to write my first Obsidian plugin! And of course it was made to “execute Shell Commands.” (Now you can easily just…

Jun 29, 2024

Obsidian: My First Plugin “Shell Commands” — A Human Story of What Could Have Been, and a Call to…

Jun 29, 2024

Obsidian: Superfan

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

Jun 2, 2024

Obsidian: Superfan

Jun 2, 2024

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, 2024

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

May 25, 2024

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, 2024

Text Editing Jiu Jitsu

May 5, 2024

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, 2024

Neovim: Manipulate Markdown Tables with Awk

Apr 20, 2024

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, 2024

Obsidian: Sort Content by Headings with Awk

Apr 9, 2024

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, 2024

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

Mar 9, 2024

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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