I am excited to get this hooked up and synced to my Obsidian vault and make it a regular part of my workflow. The auto-mover looks powerful but potentially tricky, so will play with that. My intention is only to bring a subset or articles into Obsidian.
It could be helpful to add a note to the Omnivore documentation for the Obsidian integration to speak to the labels and tag. Here it's mentioned that:
"It’s important to use the same tags in Obsidian that you set in Omnivore. In this case, we will use the save-history tag in both Omnivore and the Auto Note Mover plugin. The tag name does not matter, so long as you are consistent."
But I don't see this same info (thus I found it here via searching) .
Also curious if the tag doesn't exist in Obsidian (let's say I created it in Omnivore after my initial sync and forgot to add to Obsidian) will it throw an error message somewhere so I'll know (or add a special tag (OmnivoreNOsync or equivalent), or will it fail to sync in total or will only the tag fail to be generated?
Labels can have characters Obsidian tags don't allow (ie. beginning with a an "@" or allowing spaces between words) so as I've brought my current data into Omnivore from Pocket I'll need to manually update the labels/tags in Obsidian to match exactly.
It also seems that I'll need to ensure I have a pre-existing MATCHING Obsidian tag set up for every Omnivore label, although perhaps that could be incorrect now or in the future.
Regarding the label and the workflow with the Auto Note Mover: this flow is not a core one, neither in Omnivore nor Obsidian. It is created with a community plugin over which we don't have control or predictability. Our recommendation is to keep that in mind when using it.
If the tag is not created in Obsidian, the item in question will not be moved. For it to be moved by the Auto Note Mover plugin, you need to create the tag (label), the destination folder, and the rule in the plugin. If these conditions are not met, the item imported from Omnivore will remain in the default folder of Omnivore plugin.
The one thing I have not been able to find is how to exclude things from sync. For example, I'd like to exclude just the Newsletters from my Obsidian sync and just interact with them through Omnivore. But I can't find anything in the documentation addressing this functionality.
At the moment this is not a possibility. What you can do is assign a label (tag) and use that for syncing to Obsidian. You can use some rules to apply that label for items that you save constantly (like a website, blog, etc). Here's the details about rules: https://docs.omnivore.app/using/rules.html
Took me a bit of testing to figure out how the sync from Omnivore to Obsidian worked as I wanted to make sure to avoid overwrites.
This set up ensures nothing I do in Omnivore will overwrite notes I've added to the synced file in Obsidian.
Thanks for this very clear and useful write up!
I am excited to get this hooked up and synced to my Obsidian vault and make it a regular part of my workflow. The auto-mover looks powerful but potentially tricky, so will play with that. My intention is only to bring a subset or articles into Obsidian.
It could be helpful to add a note to the Omnivore documentation for the Obsidian integration to speak to the labels and tag. Here it's mentioned that:
"It’s important to use the same tags in Obsidian that you set in Omnivore. In this case, we will use the save-history tag in both Omnivore and the Auto Note Mover plugin. The tag name does not matter, so long as you are consistent."
But I don't see this same info (thus I found it here via searching) .
Also curious if the tag doesn't exist in Obsidian (let's say I created it in Omnivore after my initial sync and forgot to add to Obsidian) will it throw an error message somewhere so I'll know (or add a special tag (OmnivoreNOsync or equivalent), or will it fail to sync in total or will only the tag fail to be generated?
Labels can have characters Obsidian tags don't allow (ie. beginning with a an "@" or allowing spaces between words) so as I've brought my current data into Omnivore from Pocket I'll need to manually update the labels/tags in Obsidian to match exactly.
It also seems that I'll need to ensure I have a pre-existing MATCHING Obsidian tag set up for every Omnivore label, although perhaps that could be incorrect now or in the future.
Thanks again for your efforts on this!
Hey, we are glad you are using Omnivore.
Regarding the label and the workflow with the Auto Note Mover: this flow is not a core one, neither in Omnivore nor Obsidian. It is created with a community plugin over which we don't have control or predictability. Our recommendation is to keep that in mind when using it.
If the tag is not created in Obsidian, the item in question will not be moved. For it to be moved by the Auto Note Mover plugin, you need to create the tag (label), the destination folder, and the rule in the plugin. If these conditions are not met, the item imported from Omnivore will remain in the default folder of Omnivore plugin.
The one thing I have not been able to find is how to exclude things from sync. For example, I'd like to exclude just the Newsletters from my Obsidian sync and just interact with them through Omnivore. But I can't find anything in the documentation addressing this functionality.
At the moment this is not a possibility. What you can do is assign a label (tag) and use that for syncing to Obsidian. You can use some rules to apply that label for items that you save constantly (like a website, blog, etc). Here's the details about rules: https://docs.omnivore.app/using/rules.html