Has anyone created a bookmarking system in obsidian ??? : ObsidianMD#

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Yes, and I don’t just bookmark, I archive the body text as markdown.

Note: For Android, do the equivalent of what I’m about to suggest. Pointers below MacOS and iOS techniques:

You can clip from inside Obsidian, but that’s an extra friction compared to bookmarking from inside browser. So I use browser extensions.

(A) Bookmarking “System”

Archive every web page you ‘bookmark’ as full markdown page with your own metadata fields.

Key to this approach is what data you use in YAML frontmatter, and setting up your own Dataview:

https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/

MacOS

For MacOS, use MarkDownload and save the page you want to “bookmark” as a markdown file in an Obsidian vault inbox.

For Safari, this is in App Store as Safari extension. For Chrome, Edge, Firefox, see:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/markdownload-markdown-web-clipper/173

After you have the extension in browser, manage its settings to edit file names to match your system. I use “yyyy-mm-dd - title.md” instead of Zettlekasten, easy to configure, easy to scan later.

iOS

For iOS, I set up this Shortcut to grab a URL, download the page and convert to markdown, then save into Obsidian vault inbox:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f5fd3c7b46384cd5a6c4669af582ba1a

This Shortcut requires Toolbox Pro for Shortcuts:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/toolbox-pro-for-shortcuts/id1476205977

Both are set up to match file names and YAML frontmatter. You can customize those fields for use with Obsidian data.

Android (unverified)

Because you are on Android you don’t have Shortcuts built in, and can’t read that. So here is a screenshot of what the Shortcut does, step by step:

https://i.imgur.com/kDgiNKF.jpg

Perhaps you can recreate similar in Macrodroid:

https://reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/wd9kps/just_discovered_how_to_take_fast_markdown_notes/

Otherwise, this thread discusses a few folks’ approaches to trying this on Android, e.g. Kiwi browser …

https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/phvrk7/clipping_web_pages_on_android/

Or latest MarkDownload 3.1.0 release on Firefox Nightly:

https://github.com/deathau/markdownload/releases

(B) Real bookmarking app

You can have the system in Obsidian, or use an existing system that can mirror into Obsidian daily for further use.

For example…

Pinboard + Android + Obsidian

As a completely different approach, bookmark using Pinboard.in: