Although Joplin supports external app links, these links may not be recognized by other website services or applications. For example, if you paste the link in Notion, Google Keep, etc., it is not clickable, and you can't use it to open a local note in Joplin quickly.
IAnylink is a solution designed to solve this issue. It turns your app link into a regular web link, making it recognizable by other services / application.
I tried and it works (Linux Mint, Firefox, Joplin).
If I understand you correctly, you can also prepare a plugin? This would be even better - because users can skip a step in the browser and have higher privacy.
Nice.
Maybe you should write something about privacy. My friend's first two questions were: "Is this safe? What information can the website get about me?"
A good question. I am not familiar with the official way to declare the privacy data collection policy... Let me try to explain in a few words and see if it can make you feel safe.
Basically, I only interested in the no. of user and where they come from but not everything that could track an individual user
The converted universal web link simply stores the original link in a format that can be recognized by most applications. The converter software I wrote won't add any user tracking code to the converted link. I will publish the source code on GitHub for inspection.
The Joplin plugin won't track users at all and won't add any tracking information to the converted link.
The IAnyLink service site (IAnyLink) currently does not track anything. But I would like to add a GTM to count the number of users and where they come from.
Security - Deep link attack:
The general security practice for an application to support a deep link forbids creating/updating/deleting any data via the deep link. Joplin follows the rules and only allows opening a note/folder/tag only, making it safe to use.
However, not all applications follow the practice. For those kinds of applications, I would suggest not enabling the "auto-open" feature to prevent potential deep link attacks.
I appreciate your work and explanation.
I'm sure publishing the source code will be an important step forward. As I said, when I told my friend about the plugin, he asked me if your website could get his text in notes.
If the author suddenly becomes a billionaire and totally understandably stops giving F about the backend hosting - posting (once again) a link here to a JS-based repo that can be hosted by anybody.
IAnyLink: Github
P.S. This one seems to have latest updates, but at the same time plugin uses other repo which is actually deployed, but wasn't updated in a year.
I've opened an issue about it to clarify.
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