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New in Obsidian Reader: - Themes and typography settings - Highlighting - Save options Also added a beautiful new reading experience for deeply nested comments on Reddit and Hacker News. Available with Obsidian Web Clipper 1.3 on all browsers.

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kepano's profile picture
kepano5 months ago

Obsidian Web Clipper is available on all browsers that support browser extensions, including mobile. 1.3 is already approved on Chrome and Safari but may take a little longer to get approved for Firefox

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Alexander 'Lex' Williams5 months ago

The only thing I might change, and it's a pretty minor thing, but I would love to have the option of Atkinson Hyperlegible Next as font purely because it helps with letter distinction and works really well.

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kepano5 months ago

You can do that! Did you watch the video? In Settings just add it to the list.

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Alexander 'Lex' Williams5 months ago

I did not see that. Ironically, given the subject, that's extra funny. I'll have to poke at it.

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tamhn5 months ago

the nested reddit/hn comment reader alone is worth the update.

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Altin5 months ago

This is amazing. I've had issues with other readers parsing useless info or butchering formatting, and I haven't had a single issue of that kind with Obsidian Web Clipper. The only shortcoming was customization, and this already works significantly toward that goal. Great job!

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Shuvro5 months ago

This is so good. The reader has really become my daily driver to read any website.

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štěpán5 months ago

Would you ever consider adding it as a standalone or perhaps allowing it to be started on 1 click, withoutthe clipper dialogue?

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kepano5 months ago

you can also open Reader using the hotkey or context menu

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štěpán5 months ago

not on mobile devices sadly

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Roman Durczok5 months ago

@kepano Agree, clipping on mobile is PITA

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kepano5 months ago

@stpmtk it will be better in Obsidian 1.13

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Raymond Zhu5 months ago

@obsdmd So happy to see Obsidian getting better and better! 😊

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Laurent Denoue5 months ago

Interested in adding some PDF support for your reader mode?

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Nick Young5 months ago

I've just been playing around with reader and is *so* nice.

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CMussleman5 months ago

Just started using it and I can't believe I neglected it for so long. Wonderful tool!

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Alim5 months ago

So good

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Bhagyesh5 months ago

Beautiful..I'm wondering which setup/software do you use for these short demo videos? The mouse arrow navigation is so smooth. Little bit of tips or link would be helpful.

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The Observant ⇱⇗5 months ago

Is there a way we can use this to append selected stuff or links directly to a note instead of clipping an entire webpage. Please make it happen.

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kepano5 months ago

yes you can already do that

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The Observant ⇱⇗5 months ago

Yes. That does it. How did I miss that? I feel stupid. Thanks you so much. 🙏

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Cecilia | Learning AI Tools5 months ago

This looks really clean The reading experience improvements feel super thoughtful Curious — what made you focus on nested comments specifically?

kepano's profile picture
kepano5 months ago

because I spend a lot of time replying to Obsidian users on Reddit

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HTV5 months ago

Love it

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beto.group5 months ago

Ain't gonna lie pretty cool 🫡

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Tech With Matteo5 months ago

love seeing this kind of consistent shipping, the highlighting feature is gonna be super useful for research workflows

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Mithrandir5 months ago

@obsdmd You’re the gift that keeps on giving

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Rexx DZN5 months ago

Omg I litterlay had recompiled a chromium extension to firefox just because I needed a better reader on the go. This will definitely replace it as a more all in 1 :)

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Aaron Zavala5 months ago

Looks amazing! Thanks, @kepano!

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Sriram Kiron5 months ago

love your work on this

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techarena.au5 months ago

Finally themes + highlights! My ADHD brain says thank you, my messy inbox says oh no. Deep-nested Reddit readable? Poggers, bring the chaos.

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wc5 months ago

beautiful

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davidberreby5 months ago

Not on Firefox, alas. I guess they take longer to approve?

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aurelius5 months ago

Did this just make Readwise obsolete for articles...?

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Jonathan Price5 months ago

Beautiful, happy for serif fonts to be here! Thanks for this incredible extension.

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mathias coudert5 months ago

How can I add font please? It always return not found?

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Riccardo Terzaghi5 months ago

Wonderful job! The clipper is really a gem

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵5 months ago

nice! any plans for tts support? if not can I make a pr for it?

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kepano5 months ago

Maybe I am missing something but why does this need to be part of the extension? Why not use OS-level TTS, or another extension?

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵5 months ago

I listen to everything I read, selecting text, triggering TTS, and annotating across separate interfaces is a lot of friction. would love to open the clipper, start listening, and focus on notes + highlighting all in one UI.

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kepano5 months ago

but if you love TTS presumably you have your preferred voice settings etc, why is it valuable to have that as a separate feature inside Obsidian Web Clipper?

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gndclouds 🌿🍄🌎🍵5 months ago

to me, tts makes content more accessible. I think of the voices more like typefaces sure, some are better than others, but really it's just my entry point to consuming the content. Listening while annotating and then saving removes a lot of cognitive cruft for me.

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Larry Hudson5 months ago

This is really nice! I'm wondering, if I click on a link in an article I'm reading, could you automatically enable reader view in the new link that I navigate to? So that I can stay in 'reader mode' but navigate from article to article etc. Thanks!

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kepano5 months ago

not yet, but you can currently do that in Obsidan Web Viewer

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Derwin5 months ago

That's fantastic! Still I really hope Reader can add the feature to annotate while highlighting!

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TabiZz5 months ago

Do we have an easy way to capture a X/Twitter thread including all the replies?

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kepano5 months ago

Yes it's built in

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TabiZz5 months ago

How? When I clip a twitter post, it only contains the first post content and no all the replies

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kepano5 months ago

It works for me... Open an issue with specifics steps to reproduce.

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Cabinet 🗄️5 months ago

Excellent feature, have been waiting for theming and font changes. Thank you

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flexmybitsup5 months ago

its beautiful. but when i exited the reader i get massive layout issues on the page.

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kepano5 months ago

needs more detail, open an issue with steps to repro

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flexmybitsup5 months ago

not sure how to do that, but will briefly explain: running on latest chrome. click the reader. opens nicely. click the reader icon again from same menu. closes reader. come back to a broken layout. i couldn't reply because the x reply button stopped working too.

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