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Foxycape PDF
Foxycape PDF - highlights,, and citations for obsidian
Reading PDFs in Obsidian often breaks the loop: highlights stay in the file, notes cannot jump back, and figures become blurry screenshots. Foxycape PDF is a reader inside Obsidian. Highlight a passage and the excerpt can land in Markdown, with a link back to the source. Cite text or a figure, then jump to the exact page or region. Read, mark, and return to the source — without leaving your vault.
Hey, I’m one of the makers.
I built this because reading papers in Obsidian kept breaking the loop I actually cared about. The highlight lived in the PDF. The quote lived in a note. Weeks later I couldn’t get back to the exact sentence — or I had a blurry screenshot instead of the figure.
We already made a reader (Foxycape) for that “read → mark → return to source” habit. The Obsidian plugin started as: bring that habit into the vault, without leaving Markdown.
The problem we thought we were solving was “PDF annotation.” After talking to people (and reading years of Obsidian threads), that wasn’t quite right. Most folks didn’t need a sticky-note layer on the page. They needed three things to stay tied together: a mark on the source, an excerpt in a note, and a one-click way back. So we stopped chasing a mini Acrobat and doubled down on highlight → sidecar Markdown → deep link (#page= / #selection= / #markId=).
Figures were the other gap. Papers aren’t only text. You should be able to grab an embedded original, or drag a region — including across a page gap — and still jump back from the note later. Existing Obsidian page and selection links should keep working if you switch readers.
If you try it: Community plugins → Foxycape PDF. I’d rather hear about a broken jump-back than a feature request.
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“Foxycape PDF - highlights,, and citations for obsidian”
Foxycape PDF was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #122 on the daily leaderboard. Reading PDFs in Obsidian often breaks the loop: highlights stay in the file, notes cannot jump back, and figures become blurry screenshots. Foxycape PDF is a reader inside Obsidian. Highlight a passage and the excerpt can land in Markdown, with a link back to the source. Cite text or a figure, then jump to the exact page or region. Read, mark, and return to the source — without leaving your vault.
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