OB Tips and Hacks I've Got

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2023-06-14

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Copying and pasting tabular data into Obsidian

What a delight! In researching a term ("oxycodone"), I selected partial tabular data from a web page and copy-and-pasted into Obsidian, expecting to do some manual tweaking, but look at this table:

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Post-editing

What's left for me to do is edit and add one vertical bar to fix the alignment problem, and voilà! It's as good as it gets. The visual elements (pictures) are nicely dealt with as linked images.

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