Copy a URL and then paste it as a formatted link that always has the same word, eg, Link

[griffman]

If I'm understanding this properly, you want to always create a Markdown-style link with the link text being a word ("Link"), and have that on the clipboard? If that's right, this simple one-action macro should do what you want:

Link front browser tab Macro (v11.0.3)

Link front browser tab.kmmacros (1.3 KB)

This uses the %FrontBrowserURL% token, which does what its name suggests, and formats it in Markdown style directly to the clipboard. Change "Link" to whatever you want.

If this isn't what you want, there are other more-powerful link creation tools here, including one I wrote:

MACRO: The Link Creator - Create Markdown or HTML links on the fly

A couple years back, I posted a simple macro called Yet Another Link Creator, which would take a URL on the clipboard and turn it into HTML markup. It worked reasonably well, but it would occasionally freak out (now I know why). In addition, it dealt solely with HTML links, because I wrote very little Markdown. I still don't write a ton of Markdown, except here on the forums, where I do it a lot. So I decided to revisit that macro to fix the issues and add Markdown support—and to let the user …

-rob.