Well, mine was about grabbing links that don't have gibberish in them.
On Monday, May 1, 2023 at 5:38:40 PM UTC-3 Charlie Veniot wrote:
> Thanks Eric, I had everything working, but had no clue how to use it.
>
> Having to navigate to the site is okay, but that's a completely different
> use case than the one in the OP, which is about grabbing links on a page.
>
> On Monday, May 1, 2023 at 5:27:40 PM UTC-3 Eric Shulman wrote:
>
>> To create the bookmarklet:
>> (note: these instructions are for Chrome. Similar actions are available
>> for other browsers, though the menu item and dialog may vary somewhat)
>>
>> - First, select and copy the code posted by cskrisz to your clipboard:
>>
>>
>> - ```
>> javascript:
>>
>> navigator.clipboard.writeText(`[[${document.title.replaceAll('|','–')}|${document.location.href}]]`);
>>
>>
>> - ```
>> - Then, right-click on your browser's bookmark bar and select "Add
>> page..." from the popup menu.
>> - In the dialog that appears, in the "Name" input, enter something
>> like "Make a TW prettylink", and in the "URL" input, paste the
>> "javascript:..." code from your clipboard.
>> - Press "Save" to add the bookmark to your browser.
>> - Note that the new bookmark will appear at the end of your existing
>> bookmarks. You can use drag-and-drop or "Bookmark manager" to relocate
>> the
>> bookmark within the bookmark bar
>>
>> To use the bookmarklet:
>>
>> - Go to any page on any website you like
>> - Press the "Make a TW prettylink" bookmark
>> - This will copy the current URL's title and href to your system
>> clipboard, formatted as a TW prettylink (e.g., `[[Title|URL]]`)
>>
>> To add the prettylink to your TW document:
>>
>> - Open your TW document
>> - Press "+" to create a new tiddler (or edit an existing tiddler)
>> - Place the cursor in the tiddler's text area input
>> - Press ctrl-V or right-click and select "Paste" from the popup menu.
>>
>> done.
>> On Monday, May 1, 2023 at 12:56:04 PM UTC-7 cj.v...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> I just wasted the last hour trying to get that bookmarklet to work.
>>>
>>> If you recommend this as a good way to go, could you give some pointers
>>> on how to get it working?
>>>
>>> On Monday, May 1, 2023 at 9:31:05 AM UTC-3 Charlie Veniot wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why on earth would you have not provided that crucial observation in
>>>> your first post? I only tested with links that do not have gibberish in
>>>> the URL.
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, May 1, 2023 at 2:24:16 AM UTC-3 Krisztián Csordás wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bookmarklet - Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet>
>>>>>
>>>>> Personally, I prefer `[[URL Import Gadget (URL to WikiText external
>>>>> link)|https://groups.google.com/g/TiddlyWiki/c/q3A8j3sIXjI]]`
>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/TiddlyWiki/c/q3A8j3sIXjI%5D%5D> over
>>>>> `[[q3A8j3sIXjI|https://groups.google.com/g/TiddlyWiki/c/q3A8j3sIXjI]]`
>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/TiddlyWiki/c/q3A8j3sIXjI%5D%5D>.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, 30 April 2023 at 17:14:31 UTC+2 Charlie Veniot wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Click (on what, I'm not sure) to copy and then paste is a great
>>>>>> option for those who cannot drag and drop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Drag and drop makes me much happier.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 4:40:56 AM UTC-3 Krisztián Csordás wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When you click it in the bookmarks bar, it copies a wikitext link
>>>>>>> created from the current page title and URL. Then you can paste it into
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> tiddler like any other text.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sunday, 30 April 2023 at 02:09:43 UTC+2 Charlie Veniot wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have no idea how your bookmarklet helps to create a WikiText link
>>>>>>>> (in TiddlyWiki) to an external site.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Could you clarify?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 7:50:44 PM UTC-3 Krisztián Csordás
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I use a bookmarklet that copies the wikitext link to the clipboard:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> javascript:
>>>>>>>>> navigator.clipboard.writeText(`[[${document.title.replaceAll('|','–')}|${document.location.href}]]`);
>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, 16 April 2023 at 00:43:16 UTC+2 Charlie Veniot wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Please find attached in this post the JSON file you need to
>>>>>>>>>> download and drag into any TiddlyWiki to add this gadget.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://youtu.be/EIAgESf6K8s
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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