We’ve published a new macOS Shortcut (automation) for people who write in Markdown. It is: 💨 Copy Markdown Image Link to New Screenshot. In a nutshell, this enables you to to quickly take illustrated notes about a presentation you’re watching or any content on your screen, whether it’s a PDF, video, web page, state of an app, anything! Just paste the copied links into your notes. Then with a compatible app (like Marked), you’ll be able to see the screenshots in the context of your notes !
Twitter thread announcing this feature
`Copy Markdown Image Link to New Screenshot` #shortcut now available: https://t.co/54YNqCxUy8 generates #markdown links like this .
— Hookmark (formerly known as Hook) (@hookmarkapp) October 26, 2022
Move/rename image files without breaking links to them😊. Contrast file:// URLs which are brittle. `hook://file/` URLs will soon be supported by @MarkedApp. Relevant to all #markdown writers @automatorsfm @MacSparky @MACAUTOMATION @macautotips
— Hookmark (formerly known as Hook) (@hookmarkapp) October 26, 2022
We've already heard from an august mind-mapping app with #markdown capabilities that it will support Hookmark's #adaptive `hook://file/` links too
— Hookmark (formerly known as Hook) (@hookmarkapp) October 26, 2022
By the way, you don't need the shortcut to use Hookmark's #adaptive `hook://file/` image links. The Shortcut just makes it much more convenient to generate them. There's a growing Hookmark #shortcuts library: https://t.co/SA2Z8dpAKx
— Hookmark (formerly known as Hook) (@hookmarkapp) October 26, 2022
This is going to be great feature for anyone who takes live notes about a presentation. Use the shortcut to take screenshots of the video/slides, paste them as you write your notes. Create fast, illustrated notes in a jiffy!! #contextualComputing
— Luc P. Beaudoin (@LucCogZest) October 26, 2022
But in fact you can use it to take illustrated notes about anything, whether it's a PDF, video, web page, state of an app, anything! I've designed the @Hookmark feature (app) to solve my main deep work referencing problems—and yours.
— Luc P. Beaudoin (@LucCogZest) October 26, 2022
Newsletter
This is also described in the section on “Marked 2 first to use Hookmark’s adapt file links for including images in Markdown files!” our recent newsletter about Hookmark 4.0 and other topics
Video and more docs coming soon
A video is worth a thousand words, so we’ll show create one soon for this feature.
And, for Markdown app developers…
We will provide tips for developers to make their apps capable of displaying images referenced by Hookmark’s adaptive hook://file/ in their app. But really, they can easily figure it out by reading Hookmark’s AppleScript dictionary.