ReadItLater is a simple plugin for Obsidian to collect interesting information from your clipboard into your vault.
To add something to your vault just click the ReadItLater: Save clipboard ribbon or run the ReadItLater: Save clipboard command. New note will be added to folder (default is ReadItLater Inbox) configured in plugin settings.
Content Types
Structure of note content is determined by URL. Currenty plugin supports saving content of websites and embedding content from multiple services. Each content type has title and note template with replacable variables, which can be edited in plugin settings.
Available content types are ordered by URL detection priority.
Youtube
Will be converted to note with embeded player in <iframe>.
Title template variable
Retrieved from
%title%
Schema.org markup
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
Content template variable
Retrieved from
%videoTitle%
Schema.org markup
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
%videoURL%
URL in clipboard
%videoId%
Schema.org markup
%videoPlayer%
Embeded player generated by plugin
%channelId%
Schema.org markup
%channelName%
Schema.org markup
%channelURL%
Schema.org markup
Because of HTML DOM parsing limitations, additional data can be fetched only from Google API. If API key is provided, these additional template variables are available.
Content template variable
Retrieved from
%videoDescription%
Google API response
%videoDuration%
Google API response
%videoDurationFormatted%
Google API response
%videoPublishDate%
Google API response
%videoThumbnail%
Google API response
%videoTags%
Google API response
%videoViewsCount%
Google API response
Vimeo
Will be converted to note with embeded player in <iframe>.
Title template variable
Retrieved from
%title%
Schema.org markup
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
Content template variable
Retrieved from
%videoTitle%
Schema.org markup
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
%videoURL%
URL in clipboard
%videoId%
Schema.org markup
%videoPlayer%
Embeded player generated by plugin
%channelName%
Schema.org markup
%channelURL%
Schema.org markup
Bilibili
Will be converted to note with embeded player in <iframe>.
Will be converted to markdown with parsed question and answers from DOM.
Title template variable
Retrieved from
%title%
HTML element
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
Note template variables
Content template variable
Retrieved from
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
%questionTitle%
HTML element
%questionURL%
HTML element
%questionContent%
HTML element
%authorName%
HTML element
%authorProfileURL
HTML element
%topAnswer%
HTML element
%answers%
HTML elements
Partial answer template variables
Content template variable
Retrieved from
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
%answerContent%
HTML element
%authorName%
HTML element
%authorProfileURL
HTML element
Mastodon
Will be converted to markdown note with retrieved from API
Title template variable
Retrieved from
%tootAuthorName%
Mastodon API
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
Content template variable
Retrieved from
%tootAuthorName%
Mastodon API
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
%tootURL%
Mastodon API
%tootContent%
Mastodon API
You can enable savig of toot's replies or whole thread.
Reply template variable
Retrieved from
%tootAuthorName%
Mastodon API
%tootURL%
Mastodon API
%tootContent%
Mastodon API
TikTok
Will be converted to note with embeded player in <iframe>.
Title template variable
Retrieved from
%authorName%
OpenGraph markup
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
Content template variable
Retrieved from
%videoDescription%
OpenGraph markup
%date%
Current date in format from plugin settings
%videoURL%
OpenGraph markup or URL from clipboard
%videoId%
Video URL
%videoPlayer%
Embeded player generated by plugin
%authorName%
OpenGraph markup
%authorURL%
OpenGraph markup
Website URL
The website will be parsed to readable form using Mozilla Readability and then converted to markdown. If Readbility cannot parse the website content, an empty note with the URL will be created.
Images can be optionally downloaded and either:
Saved to the the assets directory configured in the plugin settings (default: ReadItLater Inbox/assets),
Saved to a note-specific folder within the assets directory, or
Embedded in the note as a base64 encoded string
Saving images to a directory is currently only supported on the Obsidian desktop app.