For a very long time now I have had a simple Keyboard Maestro macro that would take the link on my clipboard and make a Markdown link out of any editable text that I have selected. It’s been a huge help to me over the years for formatting my writing.
With my recent switch to Ulysses III as my all-things-everyday-writing-app the macro no longer worked. Well, it worked about 60% of the time. Ulysses is a bit too helpful when you go to create a link, popping up a dialog prompting you to enter the URL once you put brackets around your text.
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