Copy outline with links

[mitchellm]

I used to know how to do this, but … I seem to have forgotten. I have a rather long Bike document that contains several liinks to webpages and YT videos. How can I copy the Bike document so that when I paste the contents somewhere else I get both the content and the linked items in the content?

I typically work in markdown when doing regular writing (as opposed to outlining in Bike).

[complexpoint]

@mitchellm

somewhere else

You mean into plain text, rather than RTF ?

( Label and link are automatically available if you copy and paste to an RTF context )

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One plain text route is to go from the HTML source file, or through Copy as HTML Source in the UI for smaller sections.

You can then use an HTML → Markdown converter, like:

HTML to Markdown Converter

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Copying as HTML Source:

BIKE - Copy as HTML source.kmmacros.zip (14.0 KB)

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(() => {
    "use strict";

    ObjC.import("AppKit");

    // Get any public.html content in the pasteboard
    // as utf8 plain text source.

    const main = () =>
        bindLR(
            clipOfTypeLR("public.html")
        )(
            setClipOfTextType("public.utf8-plain-text")
        );


    // ----------------------- JXA -----------------------

    // clipOfTypeLR :: String -> Either String String
    const clipOfTypeLR = utiOrBundleID => {
        const
            clip = ObjC.deepUnwrap(
                $.NSString.alloc.initWithDataEncoding(
                    $.NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard
                    .dataForType(utiOrBundleID),
                    $.NSUTF8StringEncoding
                )
            );

        return 0 < clip.length
            ? Right(clip)
            : Left(
                "No clipboard content found " + (
                    `for type '${utiOrBundleID}'`
                )
            );
    };

    // setClipOfTextType :: String -> String -> IO String
    const setClipOfTextType = utiOrBundleID =>
        txt => {
            const pb = $.NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard;

            return (
                pb.clearContents,
                pb.setStringForType(
                    $(txt),
                    utiOrBundleID
                ),
                txt
            );
        };

    // --------------------- GENERIC ---------------------

    // Left :: a -> Either a b
    const Left = x => ({
        type: "Either",
        Left: x
    });

    // Right :: b -> Either a b
    const Right = x => ({
        type: "Either",
        Right: x
    });

    // bindLR (>>=) :: Either a ->
    // (a -> Either b) -> Either b
    const bindLR = m =>
        mf => m.Left
            ? m
            : mf(m.Right);

    // MAIN
    return main();
})();

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and another route would be through Pandoc’s HTML reader.

Those routes, don’t however, at the moment, include row type formatting.

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FWIW I’ve started some Pandoc work to do that, and I’ll aim to spend some more time on it this week.

[mitchellm]

Got it! This helps a lot. Thanks so much.