KM Macro: Create New Zettel from Selection

argonsnorts

The aim of this Keyboard Maestro macro is to recreate a feature from @rene 's Sublimeless_ZK, wherein a new zettel can be created from a selection of text by pressing Shift+Return.

I use this quite often when making new zettel from notes collected my Inbox, or when splitting a long zettel into pieces.

Details:

• The first line of the selected text becomes the title of the new zettel. NOTE: A problem could arise if the "first line" is a whole paragraph. To avoid this, I always write a "title line" above what I want the body of the zettel to be.
• Everything below the first line becomes the body of the new zettel.
• A link to the new note gets inserted in the place where the text originated.
• The new note gets header, which can be formatted any way you like, with the possibility of including a backlink to the original note.

Notes:

• This macro is set to my own formatting preferences, but it can easily be adjusted to your own liking.
• If there is a more elegant way of accomplishing all of this, I would love to know. This is somewhat duct-taped together, but it has been working for me so far.

New Zettel From Selection.kmmacros

piotr

Brilliant, thank you! I modified it a little to

• make it compatible with script that generates backlinks for all notes (# header of new note needs to have datetime-id without brackets)
• allow it to work in notes without datetime-id in name (I have a couple like that, for example simple "inbox" and "projects")

New Zettel from Selection.kmmacros

frandsoh

Thanks @argonsnorts and @piotr
Fantastic!
I might be the only one experiencing this, but I had to rename the clipboard in the first action from "Clipboard 4" to "NewZettelfromSelection".