Beginning before the beginning: the basics of the building blocks?

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There is a huge difference:

  • Variable -- a storage location that YOU can set and get. They don't exist until you create one, typically using the Set Variable to Text action (KM Wiki).
  • Token -- an identifier that always returns the value same attribute of some object.
  • An object is almost anything on your screen, like a window, a browser page_, etc
  • An attribute is some descriptive property, like size, length, color, URL, Page Title, etc.
  • In many ways, a token is like a function.
  • See Tokens (KM Wiki) for a complete list.
  • For example, I'm going to set the KM Variable "MY Web Page" to the current URL of the active window/tab in chrome:
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Here is a short (< 2 min) video that shows how I created that:

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