keep-it-markdown VS omnivore

GOOGLE KEEP - like your usage of TODOIST, but this is my capture tool. I like Tiago Forte's thoughts on capture tools and PARA, so this isn't a todo-list, just a capture of ideas that may become a project or resource later in obsidian. I've chatted with the dev on keep-it-markdown which logs into google and downloads keep notes as markdown, so I don't have to copy/paste into obsidian even - https://github.com/djsudduth/keep-it-markdown

Instructions on use are in the README.md file here - https://github.com/djsudduth/keep-it-markdown

Used Keep It Markdown software https://github.com/djsudduth/keep-it-markdown [I think that's the right one] to export 625 Google Keep Notes via API and convert them to Markdown files. Then imported into those programs.

This was not easy at all. I could not find a simple guide that didn't require any knowledge of coding. After some serious Googling, I found this method 1. Export your notes from Google Takeout 2. Import your notes into UpNote. 3. Highlight all of your notes and export them to Markdown. Unfortunately, you need to sign up for a premium account to do this. I don't plan on continuing to use UpNote, so I opted for the 0.99 USD/month plan which I've already cancelled. To rescue 672 notes, this was worth it for me. 4. Import the Markdown files into your vault.

There is a project called keep-it-markdown which enables keep notes to be converted to markdown using the keep API. The resultant markdown can be used in obsidian, logseq, Joplin or notion. You can also get markdown notes imported into keep https://github.com/djsudduth/keep-it-markdown

For those of you using the kim.py downloader (https://github.com/djsudduth/keep-it-markdown) and having problems with login being rejected all the time, I found a solution for windows that worked for me:

I just looked more at the OP, I thought it stored the audio as well but it looks like not? I'll look more into Google Keep, the Google Takeout thing might be good enough for me in the short term if I can't find a better bulk export but that's super kludgy. keep-it-markdown is all I've found so far that might be better.

Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like text.

If only they can add RSS support and newsletter subscriptions backed by Firefox Relay in Pocket, it can actually become a whole lot more useful.

If you need something like this today, try Omnivore[1]. Their RSS support is a bit wonky but very promising.

[1]: https://omnivore.app

Use https://omnivore.app/ it's free.

I'm quite happy with Omnivore: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore

It's open source, I can host it myself it I want to but the reference hosted version on omnivore.app is free and quite reliable. Dark mode, progressive webapp, native apps, full text search, Obsidian integration, Pocket migration.

Compare that with instapaper: Terrible Android app that looks like Android apps from 2015, okayish iPad/iOS apps, quite expensive now, every interesting feature behind a paywall. I guess if you're into the minimalist aesthetic or if you've grown accustomed to it, sure, keep on using it. But it feels as if this product has been somewhat on extended life support and people would care a lot less if it wasn't run by Marco Arment.

I used to use Pocket extensively until I realized it wasn't going anywhere with features. I have since moved to Omnivore [1] and I couldn't be happier.

The devs are also ex-Pocket users and have worked hard to get feature parity and then some. There are mobile apps too for reading on the go (and work offline) which I use extensively when I am on flights. There is a graphql API and webhooks you can use for extending its functionality. Search could be a little better, but I use the labeling system which works well. I also use the logseq integration to keep a persistent log of articles I read on any given day.

[1] https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore

I briefly tried Omnivore and it seems to be have a good system for scraping web articles, especially for downloading them into Obsidian as markdown. I want to isolate that and have my script that that I can feed URLs into and get the contents as markdown files. I tried looking at the repo to see how it works and at this index.js file since the folder is called "puppeteer-parse". I tried reading it line by line multiple times it feels like too much to keep in my head at one, it makes me wonder how SWEs work with large codebases. I wonder if there are tools or ways to make reading large code files faster or easier.

This looks very nice, but self hosting requires reliance on google cloud.

https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/25