PLAIN TEXT; PAPER, LESS

PTPL 124 · Saving Safari tabs as Markdown links, and Mono Fonts in Obsidian

Plus a utility to help tame email subscriptions

Ellane W
3 min readSep 30, 2024

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A beige page with stylised white lines sits at an angle on the left on a white background, with black text overlaying it that reads Plain text. Paper, less PRODUCTIVITY DIGEST

Saving Safari tabs as a list of Markdown links is a good way to augment an interstitial journaling practice. I’m enjoying the uniformity of a mono font in Obsidian.

Saving Safari tabs as Markdown links

This tip comes courtesy of Thomas Vander Wal. You might want to tuck it away for future reference.

Rather than trawling through your internet history to see where you visited and when, try saving all your open tabs as Markdown links wherever you keep your daily note.

  1. Open the Safari side bar. If Bookmarks are showing, click the left facing arrow next to it to show a list of your currently open tabs.
  2. Click the dropdown arrow next to the label stating how many open tabs you have to show them in a list
  3. Click on any tab in the list, then press ⌘A (Command + A) to select them all. Next press ⌘C to copy them.
  4. Paste the list into your notes app

I tried this in —

Obsidian

  • ⌘V pastes a list of text labels as…

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Ellane W

Designer and educational publisher for 30 years+. Plain-text advocate. Still using paper, but less of it. https://linktr.ee/miscellaneplans