Re:Show HN: Glass Dome — an Alfred workflow to fight link ro...
by geoelectric on Friday April 17, 2020 @02:56PM
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Definitely, if I were using rendered output primarily that'd make a ton of sense of course.
As you surmised, though, I use VS Code, vim, nvAlt, and iOS text editors as my primary tools (depending on setting) and actually create/read the journal in pure plaintext.
The markdown formatting is more so I can c/p rendered versions from a preview HTML page to Google Docs and other targets that understand rich text from clipboard but not markdown directly--I can create meeting minutes and whatnot from my notes very quickly that way.
If the URL shortener has an API, maybe you could write a script that keeps a record of every URL passing through it, and then run curl on those records with a cronjob or something.
I’m guessing you use a plain text editor for your notes and want to stick with it, but some note-taking apps, like Bear and Roam automatically hide the URLs in markdown links, so you could keep them as short as their titles. This would bypass the need for a URL shortener.