ReadItLater Plugin for Obsidian

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Content Types
  • Youtube
  • Bilibili
  • Twitter
  • Website URL
  • Text Snippet

Introduction

ReadItLater is a simple plugin for Obsidian to collect interesting information from your clipboard into your vault.

To add something to your vault just click the ReadItLater: Save clipboard ribbon or run the ReadItLater: Save clipboard command. New note will be added to folder (default is ReadItLater Inbox) configured in plugin settings.

Content Types

Structure of note content is determined by URL. Currenty plugin supports saving content of websites and embedding content from multiple services. Each content type has title and note template with replacable variables, which can be edited in plugin settings.

Available content types are ordered by URL detection priority.

Youtube

Will be converted to note with embeded player in <iframe>.

Title template variable	Retrieved from
%videoTitle%	<meta name="og:title"> HTML element
%date%	Current date in format from plugin settings

Content template variable	Retrieved from
%videoTitle%	<meta name="og:title"> HTML element
%date%	Current date in format from plugin settings
%videoURL%	URL in clipboard
%videoId%	URL in clipboard
%videoPlayer%	Embeded player generated by plugin

Bilibili

Will be converted to note with embeded player in <iframe>.

Title template variable	Retrieved from
%videoTitle%	<meta name="og:title"> HTML element
%date%	Current date in format from plugin settings

Content template variable	Retrieved from
%videoTitle%	<meta name="og:title"> HTML element
%date%	Current date in format from plugin settings
%videoURL%	URL in clipboard
%videoId%	URL in clipboard
%videoPlayer%	Embeded player generated by plugin

Twitter

Will be converted to markdown note with data from Twitter Publish API

Title template variable	Retrieved from
%tweetAuthorName%	Twitter Publish API
%date%	Current date in format from plugin settings

Content template variable	Retrieved from
%tweetAuthorName%	Twitter Publish API
%date%	Current date in format from plugin settings
%tweetURL%	Twitter Publish API
%tweetContent%	Twitter Publish API

Website URL

Will be parsed to readable form using Mozilla Readability and then converted to markdown. In case website content is marked by Readbility as not readable, empty note with URL will be created.

If enabled, images will be downloaded to folder (default is ReadItLater Inbox/assets) configured in plugin settings. (Supported only on desktop for now)

Title template variable	Retrieved from
%title%	<title> HTML element
%date%	Current date in format from plugin settings

Content template variable	Retrieved from
%title%	<title> HTML element
%date%	Current date in format from plugin settings

Text Snippet

Will be created as new note with whole clipboard content.

Title template variable	Retrieved from
%date%	Current date in format from plugin settings

Content template variable	Retrieved from
%content%	Clipboard
%date%	Current date in format from plugin settings