Hi
I searched many times for an app that allow me to add projects with :
But each time I've found something, I didn't fully like it.
So I wonder if someone here did something like that with KM ?
I think about using palettes obviously. But how to quickly add a "project" from finder selection to this palette ?
Thanks for your help and insights.
It would help to know which ones you looked at and what it was about them that didn't suit you.
I tried to use :
What could be awesome (but it's not possible with KM) is to have an homepage for project.
I think you may need to define what you mean by âprojectsââespecially since you used the word in quote marks.
You might want to use the FinderInsertionLocation token.
I donât know about Omnifocus. For Obsidian, do you mean a URL that is in a note, or the URL of the note?
For the former, you could perhaps use the Search using Regular Expression action on the markdown file for the note.
If you meant the URL of a note, read up on URIs from the help section of Obsidianâs site, and maybe consider the âAdvanced URIâ community plugin.
It wasnât obvious to me. I take it you just like palettes... or are they particularly relevant to the problem? I think you will get better advice once you have gone into more detail but I hope I have given a relevant idea or two. I do suspect that you might find more focus on what you need to do if you just start a rough macro and see where it leads. Then of course please ask for more specific help.
For me a project have three parts :
I was thinking about palette to quickly display all of my current projects and choose the one I want to open. I'll try to build something like that to see if it can answer to my need.
My first need is an easy and quickly way to add a folder to project list. If it's too long, I know I won't use it.
But a KM palette is a palette of macros -- you'll need to make a separate macro for every project and delete the macro when a project is done. Doable, but seems like a lot of unnecessary work.
I'm not a user -- but isn't Omnifocus a to-do list system (and I'm sure that's an insulting over-simplification!)? And one that can group to-dos in projects? From the outside it seems easier to do the project list there -- I believe it also has "views" that would make it easy to see only the relevant projects -- and store the Finder location and Obsidian URL in each project's notes. It should be easy enough to use Omnifocus scripts or a KM macro to set up a "project workspace" by opening the Finder and Obsidian links for that project...
The main problem with Omnifocus is that is not practical to use note field.
But if I didn't find another (better) way, I will stick to it.
Not practical in what way?
I would take an other approach. The problem has two sides:
For the collection I would set up three different KBM macros, one for each application you want to support. All 3 of them would use the same shortcut and only be active for the given application. As an example the macro when fired on OmniFocus would copy the item link using the Menu "Edit -> Copy Item link", when fired on Obsidian it would have to do a right click on the selected item and then use the menu item "Copy Obsidian URL", etc. KBM is very capable of executing these actions.
For the launching, in theory it would be possible to have the above capture scripts also create a keyboard macro so the URL's could be selected using a palette, but as others said not very practical. I suggest you take a look at the article Pick List which presents a list to the user to select from. A possible approach could be that the capture scripts, write (append) the collected URL's to a file, either one big for all your URL's or one for each application you want to support. Your launch script would read the file and present it in the pick list after which you can launch the required application.