[Solved] Never mind, figured it out by searching the KM manual. It works in Safari, Chrome, Brave, but not Firefox…
Here’s a simple one I cannot figure out: How do you get (in KM 11) the URL of the current tab in a browser? (ChatGPT thinks that there’s an action called Get URL from Front Browser, which does not exist). Get URL does not seem to support this, but it’s such a basic need I’m sure the developer somehow addressed this.
The biggest advantage to me of mac power users being on youtube is that we can get transcripts of the episodes! I rarely watch videos themselves, but I do use the transcripts a lot to find specific information.
Dave says at 12:46 into the podcast
I just made a Mac Sparky Labs video great guy on the forums Jim Sauer made a um a script with keyboard maestro that you press one one keyboard shortcut and it creates a um deep link to an Apple note. you know, it’s something we always struggle with. You can kind of do it. Apple gives you the tools to do it, but it’s really backwards. Uh, yeah, he wrote a keyboard Mac and he’s using Apple Script and a whole bunch of tools to do this. But he basically added a feature to Apple Notes where you can easily get a a link to your note with one keystroke.
And I’ll put a link to that into the notes as well, so you can go directly to it.
Sounds useful but I can’t find a link to it in the show notes. If anyone finds it please paste the link here.
I assume that the macro David is referring to creates a link like this one: applenotes:note/ec1c5e19-d5c3-4617-92xc-04313192d79e?ownerIdentifier=_72c318729c9a2bc7030f6b97a8c026a. The problem with these links however is that they are custom links, and as such you can’t paste them into Google Docs, Notion or Discourse forums. As I mentioned in another talk topic here with respect to a previous episode, that’s where Hookmark comes in, which lets you copy a universal link instead, one that would look like this: https://hookmark.net/hm/hook/notes/dt/1766626189, the ID is the date and time of the note. Because that’s an https:// link you can paste it in Google Docs, NOtion, and other places that do not accept custom links.
It’s a shame that web apps like Notion and Google Docs neuter custom links. Apple in contrast supports them in iCloud.com, but the universal link workaround solves the problem.
I’m just getting into Keyboard Maestro (after owning it for over a decade). This is a year of increased automation for me so I will refer to David’s Keyboard Maestro Field Guide which I owned from day one but haven’t read yet… (I design the Hookmark app which has a Script Editor, AppleScript and Shortcuts).
I’m also here for the same script.
Currently I’m using the share via messages method (which I learned from David) to get the link to a note. That’s where you start sharing via messages and stop, go back, and now copy link appears. Cumbersome but it works.
Maybe this is the post by Jim Sauer
and reading a few posts below it, somebody posted a macro with an Apple Script
Maybe do Cmd-L then Cmd-C on Firefox?