Use case or problem
I want to simplyfiy creating links to the Internet in Markdown with Obsidian.
Current workaround
Currently, you can already drag and drop a URL into Obsidian, but Obsidian will then only insert the URL, not create a full inline Markdown link with link text in the [link text](url)
syntax.
The “Paste URL into Selection” helps a little bit. But it’s still cumbersome: I have to write or paste the link text, select it and then copy and paste the URL into that selection. These are still too many steps. A simple drag and drop operation could replace all ot these.
Proposed solution
Obsidian should allow dragging a URL from the address bar or any link from a page in the web browser to the Obsidian Mardown editor to create a fully-fledged Markdown link including link text.
Evernote is able to do this, for example. You can simply drag a link on a page in the browser or the addres bar to the Evernote client. Evernote will then generate a fully functional link with the link text being either the tile of the page if you drag fom the adrress bar or the text of the link if you drag a link from the page. (Of course, Evernote does not create Markdown but rich text, but the principle is the same.)
This shows that the information passed in the drop event contains both the URL and the link text. Obsidian should make use of the full information passed in the drop event, i.e. not only the URL, but also the link text, in order to create the full Markdown link.
Update
In recent versions of Obsidian, a part of the proposed solution has already been implemented, namely dragging links to the Obsidian editor. In fact the implemented solution for copying links is even more general, since it not only converts links, but also other HTML formatting to Markdown.
However, dragging a URL from the address bar still does not work as nicely as it could, since it only copies the URL, and does not create a full-fledged Markdown link including the title of the page. I think this should be possible since the title is transmitted as part of the drag-and-drop protocol in most browsers/platforms, similar to how it works with HTML formatting.