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Obsidian Timestamp Notes

Use Case

Hello Obsidian users! Like all of you, I love using Obsidian for taking notes. My usual workflow is a video in my browser on one side of my screen while I jot down notes in Obsidian on the other side. While Obsidian itself is a great notetaking tool, I found this setup quite lacking. When reviewing my notes, it would often take me a long time to find the section of the video the note came from and I found it annoying constantly having to switch between my browser and Obsidian.

Solution

This plugin solves this issue by allowing you to:

  • Open up a video player in Obsidian's sidebar
  • Insert timestamps with a hotkey
  • Select timestamps to navigate to that place in the video

Setup

  • Download and enable the plugin
  • Set the hotkeys for
    • opening the video player (my default is cmnd-shift-y)
    • inserting timestamps (my default is cmnd-y)
    • playing/pausing video (my default is cntrl-space)
  • Set options for
    • colors of the url, url text, timestamp button, and timestamp text
    • Title that is pasted when 'Open Video Player' hotkey is used

Usage

  • Highlight a video url and use the 'Open Video Player' hotkey
  • Jot down notes and anytime you want to insert a timestamp, press the registered hotkey
  • Toggle pausing/playing the video by using hotkey (my default is option space)
  • Open videos at the timestamp you left off on (this is reset if plugin is disabled)
  • Close the player by right-clicking the icon above the video player and selecting close

Valid Video Players

This plugin should work with:

  • youtube
  • vimeo
  • facebook
  • soundcloud
  • wistia
  • mixcloud
  • dailymotion
  • twitch

Demo

ezgif.com-gif-maker.1.mov

Known Issues

  1. Inserting timestamps into a bulleted section does not work. Unfortunately, code-blocks cannot be in-line with text. Make sure to press enter/insert the timestamp on a new line.
  2. If you decide to change the colors of your buttons/text, any old buttons/text will not update with the new colors until you reload the app. You can also click the '<>' when hovering over the code-block and it will refresh with the new colors.

Other Authors

This plugin uses the react-player npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-player.