Could we get a right-click contextual menu item “Add as URL to DevonThink” for URLs embedded in web pages and other document types?
When I mouse over and right-click on an embedded link (like the many on this forum page), there are no DT options initially (although I do have an “Add link to Papaly” for the bookmark extension I use in Chrome - so such an option certainly seems doable). When I click through to Services, there are many DT options for adding as text…but none that will save the link as a URL (I tried them all).
It’s not always feasible or desirable to click the link and open it in a browser before clipping it. Could we get the option to capture the URL directly?
Thanks for the suggestion, we’ll consider this for future releases. Which browser do you use? Right now you could also drag & drop the link onto the Sorter or to the sidebar/main view of a DEVONthink window.
Thanks so much for your response. Because of my work (I’m an academic physician), I’m actually forced to use several browsers - mostly Chrome and Safari, but I find Firefox a little friendlier for research work.
I have experimented with several workarounds for the embedded links in Chrome. Dragging to the Sorter icon works best for me.
Dragging to the dock icon also works, although oddly, I get different results if the text is selected or not. If not selected, I get the firewalled URL (urldefense dot com…). Also, if I drag the unselected link to Yoink first, it “launders away” the firewall preamble.
It also works to right-click and Save Link As to the Global Inbox. This is actually slow for some reason (it takes 5-10 seconds to get the dialog box), but it does allow you to name the link before it is saved.
Since I have to collect a lot of these links, and I would really love to use DT as a bookmark collector and manager, it would be great to have Add as URL to DT as a right-click option.
(and maybe a hotkey option? The Sorter hotkeys do not work with embedded URLs either)