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[cdpath]

Get item URI from frontmost application as markdown format

 

Credits:

 

Highly inspired by [Hook – Links beat searching](https://hookproductivity.com/) and my previous workflow(which is triggered Snippet Trigger)

 

 

Use case:

 

Let's say you are writing some blog and want to insert some reference links. You can simply hit Shift-Command-C in Chrome to get the title and link of web page in 

 

[title](url)

format.

 

 

Supported Apps:

• DEVONthink 3
• Obsidian
• Zotero (require zotxt)
• Chrome
• Safari

 

Todo:

 

• Support more URI format, for example HTML <a> tag or RTF
  • But I'm not sure what's the best way to do so, maybe with Action Modifier?

 

 

Download: https://github.com/cdpath/copy_link/releases/download/v0.0.2/Copy.Link.alfredworkflow

GitHub: https://github.com/cdpath/copy_link

Edited December 28, 2021 by cdpath

[MrNiosy]

This looks promising! Could you add support for files in finder (URL-scheme file:///path/to/file.txt) 

[deanishe]

On 12/28/2021 at 2:23 PM, cdpath said:

Support more URI format, for example HTML <a> tag or RTF

• But I'm not sure what's the best way to do so, maybe with Action Modifier?

 

 

The macOS clipboard supports multiple representations, so you can put RTF, HTML and Markdown on the clipboard at the same time. The application you paste into then chooses the format it prefers.

[MrNiosy]

With no skills at all, I just managed to implement MacSparky's script for getting the URL of a message in Apple Mail (see https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2019/02/applescript-to-link-to-apple-mail-message/)

 

But I failed at getting only the subject of a specific email in order to create a nice looking markdown link. Maybe you could have a look at this and share your results?

 

It would also be great if you could look into getting the URL of a specific project in the task manager Things 3 (see https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803573/) 

Edited January 18, 2022 by MrNiosy

[deanishe]

1 hour ago, MrNiosy said:

But I failed at getting only the subject of a specific email in order to create a nice looking markdown link. Maybe you could have a look at this and share your results?

 

This script returns a Markdown link to the selected email:

 

(*
  Returns a Markdown link to the first selected Apple Mail message
*)
tell application "Mail"
	set _msgs to selected messages of message viewer 0
	if (_msgs is not equal to missing value) then
		set _msg to first item of _msgs
		set _subject to subject of _msg
		set _msgID to do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, urllib; print urllib.quote(sys.argv[1])' " & (message id of _msg)
		set _url to "message://%3C" & (_msgID) & "%3E"
		return "[" & _subject & "](" & _url & ")"
	end if
end tell

 

You can see the commands and objects Mail's AppleScript API understands in Script Editor. Open Script Editor, then under File > Open Dictionary…, select Mail.

 

1 hour ago, MrNiosy said:

It would also be great if you could look into getting the URL of a specific project in the task manager Things 3 (see https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803573/)

The documentation seems clear enough to me. What are you having difficulty with?

[MrNiosy]

Thank you!

 

Regarding Things 3: I simply do not have the skills to put together that script by myself. All I can try is to copy and paste some lines, cross my fingers and hope it'll work just as expected. Maybe I should find some resources to learn apple script from scratch...

[deanishe]

On 1/18/2022 at 3:33 PM, MrNiosy said:

Regarding Things 3: I simply do not have the skills to put together that script by myself.

 

What script? It says:

 

Quote

To get the ID of a list:

    On the Mac, control-click on the list in the sidebar and choose Share → Copy Link.
    On iOS, navigate into the list and at the top right of the screen, tap → Share → Copy Link

[vitor]

On 1/18/2022 at 2:33 PM, MrNiosy said:

Maybe I should find some resources to learn apple script from scratch...

 

AppleScript is a dying (stagnant) language. But if you still want to do it, Apple’s Mac Automation Scripting Guide is fairly short and decent.

[cdpath]

On 1/13/2022 at 11:17 PM, deanishe said:

 

The macOS clipboard supports multiple representations, so you can put RTF, HTML and Markdown on the clipboard at the same time. The application you paste into then chooses the format it prefers.

Thank you! I'll look into it