ReadItLater: Save Clipboard should save binary files not create notes with binary files

[doug-w]

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🔖 Feature description

If a pdf/png URL is open / selected with the ReadItLater: Save Clipboard, it should save that file and not create a new note and paste the binary content into the note.

✔️ Solution

I'd like to be able to save pdfs directly into obsidian without having to download a link, save the link to my download folder, then drag/drop it into the vault

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[dekimsey]

I just wanted to say i think this would be a great addition! I ran into this while trying to update my random product PDF links into downloaded articles with ReadItLater.

One solution is to simply create a stub page with an attachment to the file.

# some-article.pdf

![[assets/some-article.pdf]]

But that's just a glorified binary like the videos are, exploring this a bit further...

I thought it'd be cool if one could include the TOC from the PDF to make it more discoverable in the Vault search. But some PDFs don't have one.

For instance a Kingston PDF manual I was testing with was created with Adobe InDesign 17.3 and the TOC isn't text, it's just links to pages. Which isn't very useful. I confirmed it with a few browsers just to be sure.
However, I was surprised Edge's built-in Copilot generated a quite reasonable summary of the doc with the prompt "Generate a brief summary of this pdf". So I ended up throwing that in my my doc under a Summary. Fun stuff!

[Asten-Valentinus]

I've run into this issue as well. Even if just a temporary solution, do you think you could make it embed the supported files into Obsidian notes, and the unsupported ones just use regular Markdown hyperlinks?

Examples

# some-article.pdf

![](https://example.com/some-article.pdf)

# some-image.png

![](https://example.com/some-image.png)

# an-unsupported-file.ico

[](https://example.com/an-unsupported-file.ico)