Your screenshot folder is a second brain in disguise.

You'll want:

• An iPhone running iOS 16 or later.
• Obsidian installed, with a vault synced via iCloud Drive.
• Five minutes of attention. The one-time folder setup is fiddly, but the rest is fast.

1. Open the install link on your iPhone. Use the button at the top of this page. It opens the iCloud Shortcuts install page for Screenshot Notes.
2. Tap Add Shortcut. The Shortcut now appears in your Shortcuts app and in the iOS Share Sheet.
3. Allow these permissions when prompted:
   • Photos access — so the Shortcut can read the screenshots you select.
   • Network access — so it can send them to the OCR service.

This is the fiddly part. The Shortcut needs to know where in your Obsidian vault to save the generated notes. You'll set this once in the Shortcuts editor.

Optional — create a dedicated folder first. If you want your screenshot notes in their own folder (or their own vault) rather than mixed into an existing one, set that up before editing the Shortcut. See the visual walkthrough →

Prefer screenshots? The steps below are compact on purpose. If you want every tap shown on a phone, use the full visual walkthrough →

Set the notes destination

1. Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.
2. Long-press Screenshot Notes and choose Edit Shortcut.
3. Scroll to the first Save File action. It reads: Save Renamed Item to screenshot-notes
4. Tap the destination path field (where it says screenshot-notes). Then tap Browse, and tap Browse again until you see Locations > iCloud Drive.
5. Navigate to iCloud Drive → Obsidian → [Your Vault Name] → ImportedNotes, then tap Open. You can pick any folder you like — your vault root, a dedicated notes folder, whatever fits how you use Obsidian.
6. Leave Ask Where to Save and Overwrite if File Exists un-checked. Leave Subpath blank.

Set the log destination

1. Scroll further down the Shortcut to the second Save File action. It reads: Save Renamed Item to import-logs
2. Repeat the folder selection. Pick the same folder as your notes, or a separate logs folder — your call. Again: Ask Where to Save and Overwrite if File Exists un-checked, Subpath blank.
3. When both destination labels in the Shortcut show up in blue, you're done. Close the editor.

1. Open the Photos app and select 1–20 screenshots.
2. Tap Share and choose Screenshot Notes.
3. The Shortcut checks that the server is online, uploads each screenshot for OCR, and saves each result as a .md file in your chosen folder. On the first run only, it generates a personal device token and saves it for reuse.
4. When the import completes, you'll see an alert: Done: X notes saved to Obsidian
5. Open Obsidian and navigate to your notes folder. Each screenshot is now a searchable Markdown note with a timestamp heading, the original filename, and the full OCR-extracted text. An _Import-Log-{datetime}.md file shows the status of every image in the batch.