Better Markdown Linking
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Better Markdown Linking
One of the more annoying tasks I do every day, over and over, is creating Markdown-formatted links, like this: [MacStories](https://www.macstories.net). Markdown links are great because they’re much more readable than raw HTML, but adding them as you write a story or assemble a list of articles can be laborious, requiring a lot of copying and pasting, brackets, and parentheses. So today, I thought I’d share a few tools I use to speed up the process.
1. Markdown Insert for Obsidian
The first and simplest situation is when you have text in something you’re writing that you want to turn into a link. Most Markdown-aware text editors have a keyboard shortcut that can handle this. Personally, I use Markdown Insert, an Obsidian plugin that my son Finn wrote and we shared with Club members in 2021. With it, I select some text and type the hotkey assigned to the plugin, and Markdown Insert takes care of the rest, taking any URL on my clipboard and linking it with the proper formatting to the highlighted text.