When I read, see or listen something, I like to keep track of it in DEVONthink. When reading an article, I capture it using the DEVONthink share sheet, remove the unread status, put some tags, select Markdown as the capture format, then in DTTG, I move the record in a dedicated group (as the Share sheet does not let you select a group).
I’d like to create a shortcut for that, but I have not figure out how to instruct DTTG to capture a link as Markdown using URL commands. It looks like I’d have to create a markdown first, then create a record using this markdown, which is sad as I like the DTTG Markdown capture format.
Any ideas?
A quick try resulted in the following:
- Create a new shortcut and give it a simple name
- Enable the share sheet
- Add action
Get contents of URL
- Add action
Make Rich Text from HTML
- Add action
Make Markdown from Rich Text
- Add DTTG action
Create Item
Set the DTTG action filetype to ‘Markdown’, set a title and choose a location. You could obviously automatically add a date to the filename or ask for input to set a name in the shortcut.
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That’s a solution indeed, thanks @Solar-Glare.
Ideally, I’d like to have the “standard” DTTG markdown capture format. If I create the markdown by myself, I won’t this formatting.
I saw that the URL commands have a clip command. I believe this the action I need, however I believe there is no way to set the selected format as markdown (by default it captures as a bookmark).
If no way is found around this action, I guess I’ll use your proposal.