In this video, the guy shows book ratings using stars. Is this some special markdown code or just pasting some ascii symbol? if so, do you paste for example 4 filled stars and 1 unfilled star for a 4/5 rating? if so, what’s a quick way to do this? via alfred snippets or similar?
It’s no special markdown code or “magic” things, just symbols:
★☆☆☆☆
★★☆☆☆
★★★☆☆
★★★★☆
★★★★★
You can create a template for each rating and assign a hotkey for each one (e.g.: ★★★☆☆ => ⌘+3). Next time you want to evaluate something with 3 stars you just need to use the defined hotkey.