Another sub test.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Another sub test. And still another sub test. Another one bites the dust
Continuing work on my Drummer/Obsidian/Shortcuts integration focusing on the Mac today. I have come to realize that my shortcut I am using from the Services menu doesn’t honor multiple levels of my outline so when I send the data over to Obsidian it is flat which for archiving purposes is fine but it would be cool if I could recreate the outline in Obsidian.
For some reason my micro.blog site isn't updating as fast as it used to but I don't know if it is related to E/D or something else. The posts show up in the micro.blog dashboard but not on my actual site so it must be a micro.blog issue.
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
This is a different test for handling 1 nested level.
For some reason my micro.blog site isn’t updating as fast as it used to but I don’t know if it is related to E/D or something else. The posts show up in the micro.blog dashboard but not on my actual site so it must be a micro.blog issue.
I am exploring using Electric Drummer for my work with integrating my outlines with my Obsidian enviornment. What’s very cool is using url schemes in Electric Drummer do not trigger any security dialogs like Safari and Chrome! This could lead to some very cool capabilities on the Mac! I have many “automation tools” I currently use on the Mac including Shortcuts, AppleScript, Python and Node-Red.
Now fighting an iPad version of the shortcut not working properly!
I like where this is heading integrating Drummer with Obsidian. I’ve got a shortcut that I call from the Services menu that takes the data for a particular day and creates a file in Obsidian with the same date in the microblog folder.
I’m starting to believe that I’m wasting my time getting outline mode working in Obsidian.
This line is a sub of the previous text but is showing up flat in Obsidian. Time to start digging!
Continuing work on my Drummer/Obsidian/Shortcuts integration focusing on the Mac today. I have come to realize that my shortcut I am using from the Services menu doesn’t honor multiple levels of my outline so when I send the data over to Obsidian it is flat which for archiving purposes is fine but it would be cool if I could recreate the outline in Obsidian.
Testing the link mechanism in Drummer
Today I have been noodling more that coding! I am truly amazed that the Mac Shortcuts app is running so smoothly since I cleaned up it’s corrupted prefs and database! 😃
Finally feel like I have a great path forward!! And no more use of url schemes from within Safari! 😀
I’ve taken a new path for integrating Drummer content with Obsidian. Thanks to Federico Viticci of macstories.net and his Obsidian Clip for Mac shortcut I have a starting point for how I can accomplish my goal. I’ve modified his shortcut so it will work both on the Mac as a Service and on the iPad as a Share Sheet extension. Very exciting night! I will now be able to make different shortcuts that will integrate different outlines in Drummer with specific areas of my Obsidian vault!
I wish Safari handled url scheme permissions the way the Shortcuts app does. Ask you once and then remembers your choice from that point on.
The one challenge with using url schemes to pass data from Drummer to any app (Shortcuts or Obsidian at the moment) always prompts a permission dialog box in Safari and Chrome on my Mac and iPad. I will have to live with it as that is the security model in both macOS and iPadOS. Sadly I can’t use the Scheduled scripts to pass data automatically due to this limitation. I’m going to look again at how shortcuts could possibly take care of this by pulling the opml from Drummer.
Back to working on integrating Drummer with Obsidian. Last night I discovered the reason my Shortcuts app on my Mac was so unresponsive was due to a corrupt SQLite database under the hood. Deleted it along with the other pref files in Library > Shortcuts and let them get rebuilt. Now the Shortcuts app is working the way I had expected! :)
I used to do a lot of Frontier scripting and automation back in the day and Drummer is starting to get me going in a similar direction.
My goal is to use Drummer for most of my data collecting and note taking and then pushing them into Obsidian as my main location for all of my data storage.