Set up Obsidian and MarkDownload

The MarkDownload plugin says it has Obsidian integration that uses the "Advanced URI" Community plugin to work, but it doesn't. Just the symlink works. I tried that and didn't see any additional functionality that I cared about so disabled it.

This uses a symlinked directory in ~/Downloads/ to save files into an Obsidian vault.

Install the MarkDownload plugin for Firefox, and configure with these settings:

Folder inside Downloads/ to store MarkDownload clips: MarkDownload/{date:YYYY-MM}
Enable Obsidian Integration: false # we don't actually need this
Download Mode: Downloads API
Download images alongside markdown files: true
Image filename prefix template: {pageTitle}/
Front-matter template:

created: {date:YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss} (UTC {date:Z})
source: {baseURI}
tags: [{keywords}]
read: true
---

# {pageTitle}

> ## Excerpt
> {excerpt}

---

create the symlink in a terminal:

ln -s <full_path_to_your_clippings_vault> "${HOME}/Downloads/MarkDownload

tednaleid/mardownload-and-obsidian-setup.md

Set up Obsidian and MarkDownload