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Save TikToks and Reels into your Obsidian vault as Markdown

Every clip you save becomes a Markdown note in Obsidian: transcript, takeaways, your note, and the facts as properties. You choose the folders, the filenames and the note template, and it works on desktop and mobile.

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Why a plugin, not a push

Obsidian has no cloud and no account to connect. A vault is a folder of Markdown files on your own devices, and Obsidian Sync is end-to-end encrypted, so no service can write into it from outside. Clippings therefore works the way every Obsidian integration does: the Clippings community plugin runs inside your vault, pulls the clips that have finished processing, writes each as a note, and tells Clippings it has them.

The plugin talks only to clippingsapp.xyz, collects no usage data, and is not desktop-only, so a vault on your phone fills up the same way.

Setting it up

  1. In Obsidian, open Settings, then Community plugins, then Browse, and install Clippings.
  2. Enable it and open its settings. Press Connect. Your browser opens clippingsapp.xyz, you sign in, and you are sent straight back to Obsidian.
  3. On your Clippings settings, the vault appears under Obsidian. Press Connect Obsidian to start publishing there.

New clips arrive on the plugin's schedule: when Obsidian opens, every few minutes, or when you run Clippings: Sync now from the command palette. Clips you saved before connecting come across too, unless you turn that off in the plugin.

Choosing where notes go

Everything lives under a base folder, Clippings by default, with one sub-folder per notebook. Out of the box a clip lands at something like Clippings/Cooking/2026-09-09 How to season a cast-iron pan.md. Both the folder and the filename are templates in the plugin's settings, so a folder per platform or per creator is a one-line change, and any notebook can be sent somewhere else entirely.

Each notebook can also opt out of Obsidian on its edit page, the same way it can opt out of NotebookLM or Notion.

What a note looks like

Properties at the top: title, creator, platform, notebook (as a link, so the notebook is a page in your graph), source link, saved date, duration, media type, slide count for a carousel, tags, and a stable clip id. Then the body: your note as a callout under Why I saved this, the creator's caption, the key takeaways as a list, and the full transcript — or the slide text for a photo carousel.

The whole note is a template you can edit in the plugin, with a reset button when you want the default back. Clippings never rewrites or deletes a note once it is in your vault. Deleting a clip in Clippings leaves the note where it is.

Plans, privacy and more than one vault

Obsidian is a connection like NotebookLM and Notion: one connection on Free, every connection on Starter and Pro. So a free account can sync to Obsidian; what a paid plan adds is the monthly allowance and the other two connections alongside it. Compare plans.

The plugin writes into its base folder and never reads outside it; nothing from your vault is sent to Clippings. Your sign-in lives in Obsidian's per-device storage rather than in the vault, so syncing the vault never syncs your credentials. Every connected vault is listed on your settings page with a Disconnect button.

You can connect more than one vault. Each gets every clip, and a vault that reconnects picks up where it left off.

Questions

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Does the plugin read my vault?
No. It writes into its own base folder and watches only that folder for renames and deletions, so it can tell which clips are already there. Nothing from your vault is sent to Clippings.
Will Clippings overwrite a note I've edited?
No. Each clip is written once. If a note already exists the plugin leaves it alone by default; you can change that to overwrite only unedited notes, or always, in the plugin's settings.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. The plugin runs on Obsidian for iOS and Android as well as desktop, and syncs on the same schedule.
Can I use it with Obsidian Sync or iCloud?
Yes. Notes are ordinary Markdown files in your vault, so whatever syncs the vault syncs them. Your Clippings sign-in stays on the device, outside the vault, so it is never synced along with your notes.