One weakness in my Obsidian workflow was content from shortform platforms.
A lot of the most useful information I come across is short-form videos and carousels from independent creators. I wanted a way to save that material and easily take notes on it, both so I could think with it more intentionally and so I wasn’t relying on platforms to keep it available forever.
So I built a small mobile app for myself
I use it to pull in YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and carousel content, transcribe it locally on my device, edit it, highlight it, annotate it, connect it to other notes with bidirectional links, and export it as Markdown with YAML frontmatter and metadata for Obsidian.
I also added notebooks inside the app so I can group transcripts, write notes on them, and export those cleanly too.
Mostly sharing because I’m curious whether this solves a real workflow problem for other Obsidian users too. I'm also trying to find beta testers as well.
Not linking it because im not trying to shill, just genuinely curious if this gap was just me or if other people in this sub have been working around the same thing. how are you all handling video to vault right now? am i missing an obvious workflow that already exists?
I know of notebook LM and Readwise but they dont work with reels or tiktoks from my understanding.
Also wondering if a direct “send to Obsidian” share extension matter, or is clean Markdown export enough?