Obsidian Web Clipper Templates

Obsidian Web Clipper is a browser extension that saves web content to an Obsidian vault as Markdown notes. Templates define how pages are captured — what metadata to extract, how to format the note, and which sites to auto-match.

Templates are configured as JSON. Users can import/export individual templates or full settings backups. When generating templates, output valid JSON the user can import directly.

Adapt to the user's vault conventions

Templates are deeply opinionated about folder layout, frontmatter property names, category/tag conventions, and note body structure. Match the user's existing conventions rather than inventing. Before drafting a template, look for:

• Vault-level docs (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, READMEs)
• An existing templates folder, sample notes of the type being clipped, or a previously exported clipper settings file
• Any YAML property-sort configuration (Linter or similar)

When conventions aren't discoverable, default to minimal vendor-neutral choices and flag the assumptions you made so the user can adjust before import.

If the vault has a property sort order, mirror that order in the template's properties array — the extension preserves array order in the output frontmatter, so freshly clipped notes won't reshuffle on lint.

Template JSON Schema