This blog post covers my experience building an Obsidian plugin using ChatGPT – including a minimal backend. The project is open source and available on GitHub:
Why that? To solve a real limitation I’ve hit repeatedly. Obsidian on iOS doesn’t support printing or PDF export. That’s an issue, if you want to print short notes, e.g. prep lists for talks, interview questions, or quick todos. To make it even more useful (to me), I don’t print to A4 – I use a thermal receipt printer connected to a Raspberry Pi 4B. It prints on 80 mm continuous paper, ideal for portable, foldable notes that fit in a jacket pocket. Of course, a nice addition would be to support A4, too 🤓.
The resulting notes look like this:
