Pocket Dictations to Obsidian Plugin

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Hey everyone :waving_hand:

I wanted to share something I’ve been working on that might be useful to others here.

I built an Obsidian plugin that syncs Pocket dictations directly into your notes. The goal was pretty simple: make it easier to capture thoughts on the fly with Pocket and have them show up automatically in Obsidian for organizing, refining, and actually using those ideas.

As someone who relies a lot on voice-to-text (especially for getting ideas out quickly), this has been a huge quality-of-life improvement for me—less friction between thinking something and turning it into structured notes.

What it does:

  • Syncs your Pocket dictations into Obsidian

Current status:

  • :construction: Plugin is built and working

  • :hourglass_not_done: Waiting on official community plugin approval

Source code:

https://github.com/jessemlay/pocket-dictations

I’d really appreciate any feedback, ideas, or feature requests. If there’s something you wish this did (or did differently), let me know—I’m actively working on improving it.

Thanks!

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Neat! We have an official plugin pending approval, but you can view the source here: GitHub - Maclean-D/obsidian-pocket: Sync Pocket AI conversations and daily highlights into Markdown notes. · GitHub

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Very cool! Well, I’ll use that one then. I was itching to get my transcripts into obsidian so I built the one above.

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Nice! I wonder if the Pocket folks are working on other integrations?

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Oh that’s such good news! Love it!

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This is a much-needed integration. I’m looking forward to feedback on both counter and silk’s implementation. I don’t have time to test both. I would encourage the two originators to collaborate for a best product.

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@sik, your website lists you as a product engineer with Pocket?

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Sorry for such a late response, but yes I work at Pocket. Also the Obsidain plugin has shipped officially and you can add it from
Settings > Connections in the Pocket desktop and web app (soon in the mobile app)
Or from Obsidian directly

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Very quick feedback:
By default it has an option “Only import completed summaries” enabled.
If you didn’t activate paid subscription - summarization of your records may be slow enough, so plugin won’t import them until summarization happens.
Here are my settings, which led to good enough performance:

Verbose sync logging - OFF
Sync conversations - ON
Sync insigths - OFF
Include tags - empty
Exclude tags - empty
Insights tag - ‘highlights’
Max days per sync run - 30
Only import completed summaries - OFF
Re-sync updated summaries - ON
Import transcript when available - ON
Enable auto-sync - ON
Run on startup - ON
Run every N minutes - 60
Pause auto-sync after repeated failures - ON
Base Pocket folder - 44.Pocket
Conversation folder - ‘Conversations’
Insights folder - ‘Insights’
Groupt by eyar and month - OFF
others are default..