Wrapping selected text in Drafts with [[wiki-brackets]]

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For anyone using Drafts – which is great for quick capture and then prepping text to paste into Obsidian or making a .md file to import – you might be interested in a custom Action that I’ve just posted to the Drafts Action Directory: Wiki Wrapper. Works on macOS or iOS or iPadOS.

It’s based on the developer’s “Smart Brackets” Action, but with [[double brackets]]. If you’ve selected text, the Action will wrap the text (I have the keyboard shortcut set to ⌘⌥-[). If there is no selection, the Action will scan text for last open or close, and close the wrapping it if last one was an open, or insert the opening [[ if not.

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How is this different than the built-in function that runs when I type [ twice?

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That works beautifully in Obsidian, but in Drafts the selected text is replaced with [[.

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This is great, thanks for sharing! I stage most of my stuff in Drafts so this will be great on the iPad.

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@AutonomyGaps thanks for sharing this Drafts action.

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I was excited to see this Action, thanks for sharing! I am still using my legacy copy of Drafts 4, and when I tried to add the Action, I got a script error: “ReferenceError: Can’t find variable: editor.“ I know very little about programming, so I don’t know if this Action simply won’t work with my old version of Drafts, or if there is actually something amiss with the script. Any help would be appreciated!

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I’m afraid I’m not in a position to help: I merely tweaked the developer’s Drafts 5 script.

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No problem—thanks anyway! I suspect it’s a Drafts 4 issue.

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Thank you. This is very helpful!

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It’s really useful. I’m looking for something similar in Android. Do you know if this can be done by Gboard or SwiftKey keyboards?

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Yes it even works in vi emulation mode if you enter edit mode first - very nice.