A really small feature but it’s really neat in Typora. If you have a URL in clipboard and then with some text selected in a note, you press Ctrl + K, there’s no additional step to paste the link, say, by pressing Ctrl + V. The link from clipboard is inserted automatically.
P. S. Searched the forum for this suggestion, sorry if already been raised.
Given you have a markdown file containing: "You have a string of text."
And the OS Clipboard contains "https://obsidian.md/"
And the editor has the word string highlighted.
When you paste
The document updates to: "You have a [string](https://obsidian.md/) of text."
This feature is part of the Visual Studio complete ‘Markdown All in One’ extension.
Check out the “Paste URL into selection” plugin from Denis Olehov. It’s available in the Third Party Plugins within the app.
Here’s the GitHub page if interested.
I’ve been using it for a while now with no issues. The only catch is to remind yourself to use CTRL/CMD + Shift + v instead of CTRL/CMD + v when you paste.
I’ve installed it and it’s a bit helpful but I wished it worked like in MarkText app - no selection required and pasting multiple links at once was possible. Anyway thanks for help.
You do not have to wrap manually if you simply change the order to:
select text
press and hold Ctrl
press K
press V
release Ctrl
For cases without selecting text it is best to use text expander like AutoHotkey(for Windows), Keyboard Maestro or Espanso to get consistent behavior in every desired application.
I just want to add that I started using Obsidian recently and I was quite surprised that this feature was not there. It’s one of my favorite features in other apps and it seems like everyone is adding it (Notion, GitHub, Slack, Linear). It would be very nice to have it out of the box in Obsidian too.