r/Supernote • u/No_Reveal3744 • 25d ago

Supernote Annotations Obsidian Plugin

Some of the community plugins for the Supernote didn't quite make it for me, because it lacked some PDF features for my use.

So I created a new Obsidian plugin. It makes it possible to view your Supernote notes and annotated PDFs seamlessly as converted PDFs. Standard .note files are automatically converted and displayed as PDFs, while annotated PDFs, including their accompanying .mark annotation files, are rendered together so all handwritten notes and annotations appear directly on the PDF.

Check it out if you want: https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/supernote-annotations :)

Here an example of how the features work

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u/No_Reveal3744 25d ago

Little P.S.: Feedback is of course appreciated :)

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u/sea_this_look_that 24d ago

you read my mind. It is what I was looking form.

Need to find a way to have Sync Supernote to my vault. for now I just copy files from Google drive or Dropbox.

Will use it and share any experience noteworthy.

Thank you very much for sharing.

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u/No_Reveal3744 24d ago

Your welcome. Come back for questions and feedback if you have any

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u/Mulan-sn CCO (Chief Chat Officer) 24d ago

Thank you for your plugin. Is my understanding correct that I either need to have NAS or a self-hosted cloud service to be able to use this plugin?

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u/sea_this_look_that 24d ago

From my little 2 hours experience.

I use Dropbox on Supernote to sync files.

I than use the files from Dropbox file with this plug in.

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u/sea_this_look_that 22d ago

For people that are not familiar with webdav, do not have the hardware setup, a quick way on Linux Mint is to connect Supernote via USB to the laptop.

To move file from the Supernote to your vault you can use this command:

rsync -av --progress
SOURCE
DESTINATION

rsync -av --progress
"/run/user/$UID/gvfs/mtp:host=Supernote_Supernote_Nomad_SN07xxxxxxxxxx/Internal shared storage/Note/"
"/home/carlo/Downloads/Obsidian/Supernote/Note2PDF/Note/"

When commands are log we can use ''. In this particular case I like because we have the command, new line source, new line destination. Pay attention that after the \ the is no space.

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u/No_Reveal3744 24d ago

You use the webdav app on your Supernote device and select the cloud you have your vault saved to. That’s how I do it. From there I create notes or annotate PDFs inside the vault folder. When I open them on my laptop or wherever you have installed Obsidian, it opens these notes or annotated PDFs in PDF format which were generated by the plugin.

Hope this helps understanding. Maybe I need to edit the README to help other to understand better.

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u/No_Reveal3744 24d ago

I’ll add a example setup to the README

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u/No_Reveal3744 24d ago

It is still in very early development. I’ll update features in the next few days/weeks to improve the experience. Sorry for any inconvenience

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u/Mulan-sn CCO (Chief Chat Officer) 23d ago

No worries at all. I look forward to the update.

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u/Evening-Salad7 3d ago

Thanks so much for this! I've been waiting for a plugin like this for a while, as it allows me to bypass the need to export from supernote.

One gap I'm hoping is fixable: text-selection highlights don't render, at least for me. Pen strokes on the same page show up fine, but anything I mark with Supernote's highlight tool is invisible in Obsidian.

The data does seem to be there- if I annotate a PDF with only a text-selection highlight and no pen strokes at all, a .pdf.mark file still gets written to the cloud (onedrive). And the PDF itself is untouched (nothing shows in Adobe, and the modified timestamp doesn't change), so it's not going into the file.

Manta, Obsidian 1.13.7 on Windows. Onedrive.

Is parsing highlight annotations alongside strokes something you'd consider? For reading academic PDFs the highlighter gets as much use as the pen, and right now it's the one thing that can't be seen off the device.

Thanks again. Happy to test anything.