[Feat] Variants of commands that copy Markdown-formatted links

[huyz]

For all the copy UI… commands, could we have ones that copy Markdown-formatted links instead of bare URLs?

Example, instead of:

obsidian://advanced-uri?vault=Zettel&filepath=Computing.md&uid=ab4ddd23-4b15-4706-bf69-aaae806d51

have

[Obsidian: Computing](obsidian://advanced-uri?vault=Zettel&filepath=Computing.md&uid=ab4ddd23-4b15-4706-bf69-aaae806d51)

Bonus: we may want RichText-formatted versions as well, so that they can be pasted into RichText editors like TextEditor MS Word.

This would be similar to the options offered by Chrome extension Copycat, for example:

[nfnfgo]

Some of my personal thought on this feature request below

Format Support when Copying Links

• Provide multiple commands for different format (Not a good idea if there are many different formats)
• Add an option to let user choose a default format when copy AdvURI links.
• May consider allowing user to customize format using templates value (example below)

A markdown-formatted link

[{{title}}]({{url}})

Or a JSON

{
    "title": "{{title}}",
    "url": "{{url}}",
    "id": "{{identifier}}"
}

Better Title for Links

When copying formatted links (e.g. a markdown-formatted link), a title could be set based on the file metadata.

• Use the filename as title
• May allow user to customize title format

User may be allowed to customize how their title looks, possibly using template values like below

{{vaultName}}: {{alias}}

Also, variables like alias could be set to fallback to filename when it's unavailable (e.g. have no alias or not a markdown file)

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My Personal Thought About Implementation

Commands:

• "Copy Default Formatted Link": This command will directly write the formatted link to the users' clipboard.
• "Copy Formatted Link": This command will open a Modal, asking user to specify the format of the link he/she want to copy.

Settings:

• User could set a default format (e.g. Markdown, HTML etc.) in the plugin settings.
• User could add a new format and set a format key for it by using template variable mentioned above in settings. These custom formats could also be chosen to be the default format.

[nfnfgo]

@Vinzent03 Hi, would like to know your opinions, I could work for a PR if you are willing to add this feature to the plugin

[spiritualgeek]

Apologies, I missed that someone requested similar. I'm really eager for this feature to appear as I have a use case where I'm going to be referring to 2 other vaults a lot

Thanks

[spiritualgeek]

Hi @Vinzent03

Are there any updates in terms of you considering adding this feature?

Thanks