April 28, 2021

Bookmarklet: Markdown Title or Selection to Clipboard

Made a new markdown bookmarklet that:

1. Grabs either any selected text (if any), otherwise the page title
2. Copies it to the clipboard in standard link format.

Code is on Github, and to use simply grab this link 🅫 Link to your Bookmarks Bar:

I find it funny that my preferred Markdown Link format changes with my tools.

A few years back¹ I change all my markdown bookmarklets to reference links format, but my recent love affair with ../kb/Obsidian has brought me back to a more classic output.

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1. Also worth noting that the most popular post on this blog was on bookmarlets.↩︎

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