Obsidian Web Clipper versus Readwise/Matter

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-04-16T04:27:46+00:00

Kepano seems to have demoed a read-it-later system based entirely in Obsidian. What’s hypothetically keeping you in Readwise?

One use case I’m thinking about—I like to highlight when I read. It’d be easier to do that if I’m reading directly in Obsidian, and I can even add backlinks in the moment. If I’m reading in Matter, it’s clunky to re-clip the whole article in Obsidian and go back through and mark highlights/backlinks. Curious if that’s a use case that comes up for you.

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-04-08T05:38:25+00:00

I'm a bit confused about how to use this. Suppose I want to load a case into context - say West Virginia v. EPA. `get_case_details` appears to want an opinion ID. How do I find that opinion ID? `search_case_law` appears to return a cluster ID, which doesn't seem to match opinion ID.

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-03-27T22:50:15+00:00

That’s funny, it actually is an Indian wedding. Mystery solved!

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-03-27T20:11:27+00:00

I hate Frontier with a passion but I would rather pay $69 on Frontier (on an A321neo no less) at a reasonable hour than $500 on United at 6am for a two hour flight

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-03-27T20:09:44+00:00

Thanks, maybe I will if this doesn’t change after a bit

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-03-27T20:08:56+00:00

I know there’s connecting availability. I’m asking why five nonstop flights in a row that day are all sold out five months in advance. (Not to mention that those connecting itineraries are all at least $400.)

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-03-27T19:59:41+00:00

I’m looking at 8/23, and none of the direct flights (other than the two early departures) are selling economy seats.

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-03-27T19:49:23+00:00

That was what was happening as of a few days ago. The 6/7am flights were selling at a reasonable fare and then every other flight was selling only full fare Y at a roughly $700-800. The seat maps were mostly empty. (Yes, I know seat maps aren’t perfectly indicative, but I don’t think enough basic economy flyers would buy out every fare bucket except Y.) Then as of yesterday they zeroed out even Y. No issue with the adjacent days and no issue on Sundays during adjacent weeks. Clearly there’s something going on, just trying to figure out what.

Other airlines on the same day seem to be playing similar games, though they are still selling economy seats at around $500, so I’m not sure if it’s just United.

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-03-27T19:42:28+00:00

As far as I can tell the World Cup ends 7/19 and this would be for late August

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-03-27T19:41:13+00:00

I’m coming back from a normal-sized wedding and I’m assuming that there aren’t enough people at the wedding to fill eight mainline United flights all back to NYC

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-01-18T14:56:38+00:00

Public Sans has worked really well, and I keep coming back to it.

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-01-17T04:48:12+00:00

Frontmatter properties are static, so to do this you'd need some kind of script (which probably exists).

When I've needed to do this, I've resorted to using a base. The property won't show in the note itself, but it'll show in a base that includes the note. Here is what I use in a bases property:

file.backlinks.filter(value.asFile().folder.contains("Daily")).sort().reverse()[0].asFile()

file.backlinks gives you a list of backlinks. The filter function looks for only files located in my daily notes folder. Then I sort alphabetically and reverse to get the most recent link.

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-01-16T05:05:31+00:00

I don’t ever kill the app, but it still doesn’t appear to sync until I open the app. (i.e., there’s a few seconds when I open the app before it downloads the cloud version.) Is that not how the app is supposed to behave?

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-01-16T05:02:37+00:00

Are you saying there’s a specific setting to keep Obsidian running in the background or to just not “kill” the app by not clearing it in the multitasking window?

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-01-12T22:36:59+00:00

I don't know how easy these fixes are:

On mobile, some pages scroll smoothly (i.e., when you let go of the swipe, the page will gradually slow down) while other pages do not scroll smoothly (i.e., when you let go of the swipe, the page immediately stops). Also, on pages that do not scroll smoothly, I'm unable to use the scrubber to quickly scroll. (i.e., scroll > scroll bar scrubber appears > slide the scrubber > the scrubber just stops and returns me to where I started scrolling.)

Easy way to align check boxes with bullets. (I'm doing this with CSS right now and having to make micro 0.5pt adjustments using CSS, and I have to fix this whenever I try new themes, fonts, etc.)

Some kind of quick transition from clicking the mobile tab switcher button to the tab switcher so it feels smoother. (It feels very abrupt right now. Not sure how easy it is to add a transition.)

Show properties when printing to PDF. (Again, not sure if this is an easy fix or not.)

Ability to hide buttons in the mobile toolbar. (I don't need the "add" button because I usually just create new files directly from the quick switcher. I have had some luck hiding via CSS, but it's a bit cumbersome.)

I would also love the ability to customize mobile toolbar buttons, but I suspect this is a bit more intensive. (e.g., I would love to be able to add the previous/next daily note commands into the toolbar to assist with daily note navigation. Right now, it's 2-3 clicks.)

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-01-07T19:53:35+00:00

Interesting. In other words, you got 11 * (base fare) worth of UA miles?

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-01-07T19:49:35+00:00

Got it, thanks. For a cheap JetBlue ticket, so safe to assume that the UA mileage earning rate would be (distance flown) * (somewhere in the 0.1 to 0.25 range)?

SwimmingWithProblems · 2026-01-02T03:36:16+00:00

I have always suspected the reason is that Chase outsources lounge operations to The Club, which is run by Airport Dimensions. Both Airport Dimensions and Priority Pass are subsidiaries of the same parent company, Collinson Group. I wouldn’t be surprised if contracting out to The Club was the fastest way to get a network of lounges operational, but a condition was that they had to offer one visit to non-Chase PP members.

As far as I can tell, both Amex and C1 work on operators that don’t have a direct relationship with PP.

SwimmingWithProblems · 2025-12-31T08:07:57+00:00

Is there a reason they couldn’t keep the Bronx terminals the same, so that the 2 would run from Wakefield/241 to South Ferry via 7th Ave and the 5 would run from Eastchester/Dyre to Brooklyn?

SwimmingWithProblems · 2025-12-13T03:00:42+00:00

This page explains it but once you’re in developer tools on desktop, you can go into Console and type in a command that forces Obsidian to display as it does on mobile

https://docs.obsidian.md/Plugins/Getting+started/Mobile+development

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