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From: Daniel Miessler <daniel@danielmiessler.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:15:01 -0700
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 [Quickstart](#quickstart) •
 [Structure](#structure) •
 [Examples](#examples) •
+[Custom Patterns](#custom-patterns) •
+[Helper Apps](#helper-apps) •
+[Examples](#examples) •
 [Meta](#meta)
 
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   - [CLI-native](#cli-native)
   - [Directly calling Patterns](#directly-calling-patterns)
 - [Examples](#examples)
+- [Custom Patterns](#custom-patterns)
+- [Helper Apps](#helper-apps) 
 - [Meta](#meta)
   - [Primary contributors](#primary-contributors)
 
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+## Creating Custom Patterns
+
+You can also use Custom Patterns with Fabric, meaning Patterns you keep locally and don't upload to Fabric.
+
+One possible place to store them is `~/.config/custom-fabric-patterns`.
+
+Then when you want to use them, simply copy them into `~/.config/fabric/patterns`.
+
+```bash
+cp -a ~/.config/custom-fabric-patterns/* ~/.config/fabric/patterns/`
+```
+
+Now you can run them with:
+
+```bash
+pbpaste | fabric -p your_custom_pattern
+```
+
+## Helper Apps
+
+These are helper tools to work with Fabric. Examples include things like getting transcripts from media files, getting metadata about media, etc.
+
+## yt (YouTube)
+
+`yt` is a command that uses the YouTube API to pull transcripts, pull user comments, get video duration, and other functions. It's primary function is to get a transcript from a video that can then be stitched (piped) into other Fabric Patterns.
+
+```bash
+usage: yt [-h] [--duration] [--transcript] [url]
+
+vm (video meta) extracts metadata about a video, such as the transcript and the video's duration. By Daniel Miessler.
+
+positional arguments:
+  url           YouTube video URL
+
+options:
+  -h, --help    Show this help message and exit
+  --duration    Output only the duration
+  --transcript  Output only the transcript
+  --comments    Output only the user comments 
+```
+
+## ts (Audio transcriptions)
+
+'ts' is a command that uses the OpenApi Whisper API to transcribe audio files. Due to the context window, this tool uses pydub to split the files into 10 minute segments. for more information on pydub, please refer https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub
+
+### Installation
+
+```bash
+
+mac:
+brew install ffmpeg
+
+linux:
+apt install ffmpeg
+
+windows:
+download instructions https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html
+```
+
+````bash
+ts -h
+usage: ts [-h] audio_file
+
+Transcribe an audio file.
+
+positional arguments:
+  audio_file  The path to the audio file to be transcribed.
+
+options:
+  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
+````
+## Save
+
+`save` is a "tee-like" utility to pipeline saving of content, while keeping the output stream intact. Can optionally generate "frontmatter" for PKM utilities like Obsidian via the
+"FABRIC_FRONTMATTER" environment variable
+
+
+
+If you'd like to default variables, set them in `~/.config/fabric/.env`. `FABRIC_OUTPUT_PATH` needs to be set so `save` where to write. `FABRIC_FRONTMATTER_TAGS` is optional, but useful for tracking how tags have entered your PKM, if that's important to you.
+
+### usage
+```bash
+usage: save [-h] [-t, TAG] [-n] [-s] [stub]
+
+save: a "tee-like" utility to pipeline saving of content, while keeping the output stream intact. Can optionally generate "frontmatter" for PKM utilities like Obsidian via the
+"FABRIC_FRONTMATTER" environment variable
+
+positional arguments:
+  stub                stub to describe your content. Use quotes if you have spaces. Resulting format is YYYY-MM-DD-stub.md by default
+
+options:
+  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
+  -t, TAG, --tag TAG  add an additional frontmatter tag. Use this argument multiple timesfor multiple tags
+  -n, --nofabric      don't use the fabric tags, only use tags from --tag
+  -s, --silent        don't use STDOUT for output, only save to the file
+````
+
+### Example
+
+```bash
+echo test | save --tag extra-tag stub-for-name
+test
+
+$ cat ~/obsidian/Fabric/2024-03-02-stub-for-name.md
+---
+generation_date: 2024-03-02 10:43
+tags: fabric-extraction stub-for-name extra-tag
+---
+test
+```
+
 ## Meta
 
 > [!NOTE]