@cnzhihao: This is a real lifesaver. I used to be a heavy WeChat Reading user. I would read on the web, highlight passages, copy them, and paste them into my Obsidian. Now with this, I don't need to do any of that anymore. Just let WorkBuddy extract the info from WeChat Reading and write it back to Markdow…
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User shares the WorkBuddy tool, which automatically extracts highlighted content from WeChat Reading and writes it into Markdown documents, eliminating the manual copy-paste steps into Obsidian.
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This is a godsend. I used to be a heavy user of WeRead.
I would read on the web, highlight passages after finishing, then copy and paste them into my Obsidian. Now with this setup, I don’t have to do any of that anymore.
I can just let WorkBuddy take the info from WeRead and write it back into a Markdown file for me. Saves so much effort.
This is absolutely the best news I’ve heard today. I’m going to set it up later.
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