Hey there, lovely insiders! 🌟

🚀 Let's again decide which feature will be next 🛠💡

👌- processing messages in groups from other bots (only for insiders)
⚡️- sending notes from Obsidian to Telegram (only for insiders)
👍- "delete messages from Telegram" settings for each distribution rules
🕊- ignore formatting (bold, italic, underline) in the notes names

Please drop a reaction for the feature you're most excited to see come to life 🎉

🚀 Obsidian Telegram Sync 3.2.0

🌟 What's New?
* marking message as processed by bot reaction (no user connection required)
* ignoring formatting (bold, italic, underline) in the notes names
* processing old messages after sleep or lack of internet
* handling edited messages

🛠 Bug Fixes
* connecting user errors during login
* duplicate notes with emojis in names in Windows 10
* markdown formatting of messages with attachments
* missing first letter of logged message

🏄🏽 Ready to upgrade? Get it directly from Obsidian!

🚀 Support the Growth of the Telegram Sync Plugin! 🚀

When I first started developing the Telegram Sync plugin, I was on a creative break and had plenty of time to dive deep into things like Zettelkasten, Obsidian, and note-taking. Quickly realizing that such a plugin was not only something I needed but also something others were searching for, I set off on its development. One feature after another, updates were released at a rapid pace.

However, as some of you may have noticed, development has slowed down recently. While part of this is because the core functionality is already in place, it's also due to my limited free time. ⏳

I’m aware that some users still face a few bugs and that there's demand for additional features. Like many open-source developers, I’m passionate about building tools that matter to the community. Yet, with limited time and resources, it's sometimes challenging to prioritize what’s critical versus what’s secondary.

That’s why, from today, I want to give you more influence over the plugin’s future. 💡

How You Can Help Shape the Plugin:
Vote with Stars ⭐️: You can now boost the priority of bug fixes or new features (special channel posts) not just with emojis but also with Telegram Stars. Stars carry more weight as they reflect the real urgency and value to the community.

Contribute to Development 🛠: As always, you're welcome to help enhance the plugin by fixing bugs or adding features! Just follow the instructions in this contribution guide.
Here's the exciting part: if you decide to work on a specific bug or feature and it receives stars, those stars ⭐️ will be credited to you as a token of appreciation from the community! Simply send me a DM @soberhacker before you start, so I can mark the task/post as being in progress by you.
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By engaging this way, we can ensure that the most impactful changes happen, reflecting what the community truly needs. And who knows – maybe the plugin is already pretty great as it is! 😉

Thank you for your continued support! 🙏

🐞 Bug #310: Processing Old Messages Doesn't Work in Chats with Topics
Messages from different topics are mistakenly forwarded to the topic General. Older messages are re-sent to make them available to the bot

How to Help:

1. Vote with ⭐️ Telegram Star or emojis to prioritize this bug fix.
2. Interested in fixing it? Send me a DM @soberhacker to start working on this issue and earn stars from the community

Bugs on MacOS
Both of these bugs are extremely difficult to fix because they are related to third-party libraries and their specific behavior on MacOS. Solving them will require both creativity and time

🐞 Bug #279: Bot Doesn't Reconnect after Sleep Mode
🐞 Bug #280: No Possibility to Connect User with Password

How to Help:

1. Vote with ⭐️ Telegram Star or emojis to prioritize this bug fix.
2. Interested in fixing it? Send me a DM @soberhacker to start working on this issue and earn stars from the community

✨ Feature #105: Sending Notes from Obsidian to Telegram
This was previously one of the most requested features. However, it turned out that everyone had their own vision of how it should work. So, let's start with something simple: selecting notes and sending them to a chosen chat, group, or channel

How to Help:

1. Vote with ⭐️ Telegram Star or emojis if you think this feature would improve your workflow
2. Got ideas? Comment below or on GitHub
3. Want to build this feature? DM me @soberhacker to take on the task and get credited with community stars

✨ Feature #184(#299): Make messages from other bots available for processing
This can be accomplished only through a user connection (not bot connection) and forwarding such messages to the same chat / topic to make them available to the bot

How to Help:

1. Vote with ⭐️ Telegram Star or emojis if you think this feature would improve your workflow
2. Got ideas? Comment below or on GitHub
3. Want to build this feature? DM me @soberhacker to take on the task and get credited with community stars

✨ Feature #267: Add the Setting "Delete messages from Telegram" to Each Distribution Rule
Currently, there is one central setting for all messages that allows processed messages to be deleted or not. Instead, create this setting in the Distribution Rule settings tab

How to Help:

1. Vote with ⭐️ Telegram Star or emojis if you think this feature would improve your workflow
2. Got ideas? Comment below or on GitHub
3. Want to build this feature? DM me @soberhacker to take on the task and get credited with community stars

🚀 Obsidian Telegram Sync 4.0.0

🌟 What's New?
• Added permanent encryption for the bot token
• Added optional encryption with a PIN code

🛠 Bug Fixes
• Fixed issue with parsing hashtags containing Cyrillic characters

🏄🏽 Ready to upgrade? Get it directly from Obsidian!

✨ Feature #002: Option to disable marking messages as processed via emoji reaction
Plugin actions will be logged in the Obsidian console

How to Help:

1. Vote with ⭐️ Telegram Star or emojis if you think this feature would improve your workflow
2. Got ideas? Comment below or on GitHub
3. Want to build this feature? DM me @soberhacker to take on the task and get credited with community stars

Done by @soberhacker

✨ Feature #003: Option to choose the emoji reaction that the plugin uses to mark messages as processed

How to Help:

1. Vote with ⭐️ Telegram Star or emojis if you think this feature would improve your workflow
2. Got ideas? Comment below or on GitHub
3. Want to build this feature? DM me @soberhacker to take on the task and get credited with community stars

Done by @soberhacker

Hey everyone! 🌟
I’m planning to roll out this feature later this week! 🎉
React to this message with your favorite emojis - the ones you’d love to use for marking messages as processed.
I’ll add the top 10 to the plugin! 🚀

🙈 Super sorry!!! I completely forgot that the channel had a limited list of emoji reactions. 😭

I’ve now enabled the full set from Telegram’s basic free package, so you can react with an extended list of emojis. 🎉

By the way, each channel post can have only 11 different reactions. If the PREVIOUS post already has 11 reactions, feel free to use THIS post for other reactions instead.

P.S. My mistake wasn’t entirely in vain - thanks to it, I came up with an interesting hack. It’ll be a fun surprise for advanced users! 😉

Obsidian Telegram Sync 4.1.0-beta.1

New Features:
- Choosing the emoji reaction that the plugin uses to mark messages as processed
- Disabling marking messages as processed via emoji reaction
- Saving stickers


🔄 If you connected as user you can always install last beta release from the plugin settings

Quick Note

This week, the channel reached 1k subscribers 🎉! I’m glad to welcome everyone here 🤗. This good news motivated me to share how I capture quick notes 🤓

The most common situation when I need quick note-taking is while listening to audiobooks. Writing text in such moments feels very distracting, so I started using my voice instead.

Here’s how I set up my environment:
1. Created a Telegram group called "Quick Note"
2. Added my Obsidian Telegram Sync bot to the group with admin rights
3. Added a Telegram widget for the group "Quick Note" to my smartphone’s home screen
4. Created a note template in Obsidian using the variable {{voiceTranscript}}
5. Set up a distribution rule in Obsidian with the template and the group

My strategic flow:
1. Whenever I come up with a good idea, I open the "Quick Note" group from the widget and start a voice recording
2. Once a week, I process these synced notes in Obsidian: correct the text, set tags, connect them to other notes, and turn them into permanent notes
3. If a voice transcript is inaccurate, I find the matching voice recording by its similar name. Since Telegram improved transcription quality, I only need this 1% of the time, so I no longer include recordings in notes using the {{files}} variable

A few important things:
- Telegram Premium subscription is required.
- Telegram user account must be connected to the plugin

Hey Guys!

A few bugs for macOS users are quite "popular" on GitHub Issues 🤪, but not here. To me, this suggests the problem isn’t as painful or urgent, so I’ll focus my precious time elsewhere. Or perhaps new members are just too lazy to scroll up and boost the post?

Just a quick reminder: this is an open-source project, so everyone is welcome to contribute!

Have a great day filled with insightful notes! 🤗