Finder folders to Markdown links in Bear
I was just trying to get a list of Finder folders as a bullet list in a Bear note. (I'm finally upgrading my own LAS to v2 and am making it super neat as I go.)
I've known for a while that you can do this:
- Select some folders in the Finder. Typically I find myself shift-selecting a whole range, e.g. 20 dated subfolders within another folder.
- Cmd+C to copy.
- Now if you Cmd+V to paste, and you paste into a text field, you'll get the titles of the folders.
What you get depends where you're pasting. If I do that into this Visual Studio Code window, I get a long file path. If I do it in to a TextEdit window in the default rich text view, it tries to paste the contents of the folders!
I have TextEdit set to open a plain text window by default vs. RTF. That's Settings > New Document (tab) > Format > Plain text. And now when I paste there, I get a really simple list of the folder names.
Paste to Bear gets you a Markdown link
If you paste into Bear (or, I presume, other Markdown-compatible apps), you get a Markdown link that, when clicked, opens the folder in Finder!
That's brilliant. Just what I want for my JDex: now it tells me what's in my filesystem folders, and I can just click to go there.
A video
Here this is a quick video.
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