quickadd VS notable

I've heard you can use QuickAdd to streamline creating notes in specific places, but haven't tried it myself.

I haven't tried Siri + Obsidian myself but I think the approach is to use Advanced URI plugin. See this discussion https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-advanced-uri/issues/60 and https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd/issues/256

I use QuickAdd religiously for capturing quick notes during my workday for later follow-up without interrupting my flow. This works brilliantly when the Obsidian app is open and focused, but sometimes I'm on a different virtual desktop and I need to navigate back to it. The next level for minimal interruption would be to configure a system-wide hotkey that works even if I'm not focused on the Obsidian app. It would bring up a simple text input (whether that's Obsidian-based or not), I jot down the note, and the input would auto-close on submit just like QuickAdd.

Reference: quickadd issue

The only thing that occurs to me would be Obsidian with the Dataview and Templater (or maybe QuickAdd) plugins. You can embed the YouTube video directly like so. It's not exactly your ideal UI, but if you happen to be a web developer you could probably bend it to your will.

I’m not 100% if this will do what you want but I’ve seen a combination of both templater and this quick add https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd to add prompts to create sections in the notes. I haven’t done it myself but I have found the idea is pretty cool and can be practical

Other than that, the QuickAdd and Templater plugins allows you to add and format new md notes. There are a lot of QuickAdd recipes available to draw inspiration from.

Another option could be to use the QuickAdd community plugin as it lets you set up a command to create a note with a pre-determined file name format. You could make a command to create a note with the File Name Format {{DATE}} to automatically name the note the current date with the format YYYY-MM-DD. I also just tried this myself and the template worked as expected.

The plugin I used in the video: Plugin to choose the color and the icons for the callouts: https://github.com/valentine195/obsidian-admonition - Plugin to create notes from a selected text: https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd - Plugin to add a command in the left ribbon: https://github.com/phibr0/obsidian-commander - Plugin for templates: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater - Plugin to manage fields on notes: https://github.com/mdelobelle/metadatamenu - Plugin to display filtered tables of your notes: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview

And I was confusing it with https://notable.app/

I tried many note-taking apps and finally settled on Notable[0]. It's simple and you can point it to a folder with markdown files and attachments. Plus, you can just sync the folder using any syncing service, and use Noteless[1] on Android. And the tagging support is superb.

Because of the simple folder structure, you can also use vim+fzf to search/navigate your notes. The notational-fzf-vim plugin[2] is superb for that.

For web-clipping, I just use the markdownload[3] extension in firefox and save the markdown file in the notes folder.

Why not joplin? Mostly because joplin stores notes in an sqlite database instead of a simple folder structure making it not easily accessible by normal unix tools and editors.

Why not obsidian? Was never able to grok obsidian. In notable, I can tag a note as Books/CS, and CS/Books, and it'll show up in corresponding folder-like structures in the left panel.

0. https://notable.app/

Oh and the dev also did his own comparison table - you might like to compare it to yours!

I use https://notable.app/ for my notes, backup the notes / setup on a private github repo which I share with the Mac / Linux versions I use. Been working really well.

Notable (Mac, Windows, Linux) (flat)