The Archive + Keyboard Maestro/Alfred macros

ctietze

Here's a list of discussions about Keyboard Maestro or Alfred macros you will surely find interesting.

Scripts and macros

• Alfred workflow: bundle of many different actions to work with your Zettelkasten from anywhere

Writing and linking

• Link & tag auto-completion bundle by @Will

• Insert link to notes with auto-completion/type-ahead search

  • Variant by @Will, inserting the ID
  • Variant by @kaidoh, inserting the full note title
  • Variant by @Vinho, periodically updating a KM variable

• Tag auto-completion/type-ahead search

• Table of Contents link: Inset link with spacing to right-align links

Creating notes

• Create new note from selecton
• Create & update Zettel its metadata
• Create Zettel via Keyboard Maestro
• Insert note header/template

Maintenance and visualization

• Rename note and update all links
• Global find and replace for titles in all notes
• Global find and replace for whole note contents
• Print all tags from .txt files (run from archive directory) a.k.a. Create a "Tag Cloud" note.
• Create note that adds details to tag
• Generate a statistics dashboard
• Visualize network of selected notes via graphviz
• Create nested list from connections of selected notes
• Create & update note backlink back-matter

Working with other apps

• Insert BibDesk citekey, choose from list
• Insert links to Evernote notes. a.k.a. Using Evernote as a PDF and article archive.
• Move image to /media and put syntax in clipboard: Select files in Finder and copy to the media directory and create in the system clipboard a formatted link for pasting, e.g. ![](media/001.jpg).
• Search for note by ID at cursor position from any application
• Present a random note a.k.a Presenting a random note.

Misc

• Poor Man's Roam: "Creates a new note with all paragraphs containing search term"

• Copy note links in format

  • Insert Inline Note Link (UID only) [[202008011415]]
  • Insert Title 1st Note Link - Zettelkasting Dashboard [[202008011415]]
  • Insert UID 1st Note Link - [[202008011415]] Zettelkasting Dashboard
    • Also: Convert The Archive's copied links from [[YYMMDDHHMM Title]] to [[YYMMDDHHMM]] Title

• Insert URLs to notes from other apps with auto-completion/type-ahead search

• Open note that matches selection from other apps (like external wiki linking)

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How to Contribute

• Create a discussion with your macro or internet find, preferably in the "The Archive" category
• Add a reply to this discussion with a link and maybe short description
• Please do not discuss macros here to keep the overview nature; replies that do not expand the list will be deleted

Will

@Will 's Keyboard Maestro macros:

• Convert The Archive's copied links from [[YYMMDDHHMM Title]] to [[YYMMDDHHMM]] Title, a.k.a. Convert and insert note link

ctietze

(Split off from main post)

@kaidoh 's Keyboard Maestro macros:

• Quick insertion of tags with type-ahead search, a.k.a. tag auto-completion
• Quick insertion of links to other Zettels with type-ahead search, a.k.a. auto-completion of [[wiki links]].
• Quick insertion of URLs to notes with type-ahead search, a.k.a. linking to notes with auto-completion from other apps.

Will

Quick insertion of links to Evernote notes. a.k.a. Using Evernote as a PDF and article archive.

Will

Inset Note Link with 80 spacing a.k.a. How do you do that cool link per line formatting thing?
Keyboard Maestro macro

Will

Automatic completion when adding a link or a tag to zettel. A.K.A. Using [[ and # to launch type ahead search and insertion of link or tag.

Keyboard Maestro Macro

Will

Some Fun with Randomness and Context a.k.a Presenting a random note.

Keyboard Maestro Macro

Will

Script to print all tags from .txt files (run from archive directory) a.k.a. Create a "Tag Cloud" note.

Keyboard Maestro Macro

Will

Yet another Keyboard Maestro Macro.

Quick insertion of links to other Zettels with type-ahead search (using Keyboard Maestro) a.k.a. Insert link into a note interstitially with a [[ and typeahead search. Results are like [[201901212335]]

cdguit

Scans a .bib file for citekeys (e.g. "@author2019"), allows the user to select one of those and inserts it at the current cursor position.

Requires "The Silver Searcher" (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) to be installed.

Setup: In the first command ("execute shell script"), replace "path/to/bibliography.bib" with the path to your .bib file.

ctietze

Inserting links to notes in your clipboard with the "fancy" table of contents style:

Prepare headless Raspberry Pi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [[201903121101]]
Inspect webcam capabilities on Linux  . . . . . . . . . . . . . [[201903121042]] 
Encode H.264 on Logitech C920 when capturing with ffmpeg  . . . [[201903121004]]

See here for the macro:
https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/2559/#Comment_2559

Will

Yet another Keyboard Maestro Macro.

Quickly copy files (images) to media folder and create formatted media links using Keyboard Maestro

Highlight a file or files in Finder and copy to the media directory and create in the system clipboard a formatted link for pasting in a zettel.

Output ![](media/001.jpg)

This creates a quick simple macro for an association of an image file with a zettel.

Vinho

Another macro:

Searches all the zettel-titles in your zettelkasten and replaces a text string of your choice with another text string of your choice wherever the former appears

Vinho

And one that replaces a text string with another text string in all your zettel bodies (as long as there is no built-in solution) – particularly handy for changing, replacing or deleting tags.

Vinho

A macro to visualise the links between a group of selected zettels in The Archive with the tool Graphviz. You need to select the notes in the note list of TA, then trigger it and it will produce an SVG-file with the resulting graph. It can be customised in various ways.

Vinho

And one to create a nested list of the children of a selected zettel to a depth of choice – either on a (new) note in The Archive or with the app OmniOutliner that allows folding and unfolding.

ctietze

Alfred workflow to create Zettel notes with metadata, updating existing headers upon subsequent launches: https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/675/alfred-workflow-for-creating-new-zettels-including-metadata

(Adding this here for @sai because I've just changes the discussion title to include Alfred )

mediapathic

Search The Archive for a UID under the cursor from any application. Can also be easily modified to "search the archive for whatever is on your clipboard".

Will

Stats Dashboard

Eiff

Poor Man's Roam-Style Contextual Backlinks

Creates a new note with all paragraphs containing search term (see screenshots in post).

Will

Zettel Title Search a.k.a. A simple unsophisticated text only (no regex) Keyboard Maestro macro for searching title names and then displaying the note in the editor window.

argonsnorts

New Zettel from Selection

piotr

KM macro to create/regenerate backlinks

pryley

Alfred workflow for The Archive

Will

Creating new Zettels using Keyboard Maestro.

seanakabry

Rename Note and Update Wikilinks to It

This Keyboard Maestro macro will rename a specified note and update all [[wikilinks]] to it.

seanakabry

Open a File Outside the Zettelkasten Identified by a UID

This Keyboard Maestro macro will open the file in a specified directory with a filename containing the currently selected text.

Will

Keyboard Maestro macro that creates a new note the can be used for recording details about individual tags. Details are in the link.

In the case, the tag is #tag_details but could be anything.

Will

Version 2.0 of the Note Linking Trivecta

Insert Inline Note Link (UID only) [[202008011415]]
Insert Title 1st Note Link - Zettelkasting Dashboard [[202008011415]]
Insert UID 1st Note Link - [[202008011415]] Zettelkasting Dashboard