I'm new to Joplin, investigating if I want to use it. If I drag a URL from the Chrome Browser, to the Markup Editor, it shows the title, but when I drop, it just pasts the URL and not a link with the title text. If I click on the WYSIGYG? icon and try it it works but when I toggle back to markup it has disappeared. Is there a plugin I should be using?
I'd also want to do this for file links from Windows Explorer, I haven't tried that yet but I have enabled them in settings.
AFAIK nobody really switches between WYSIWYG and MD Editor/Viewer editors like that. You either on the dark side or the bright side.
Personally I don't even touch WYSIWYG button because the formats get translated and then it all messed up and impossible to read the MD editor after that.
Here's what I get when dragging the title into Joplin MD editor:
Not cute, I would look for topics discussing Joplin Webclipper Chrome extension - never tried that but it might present you with even better way of doing things.
Files Dragging
Just tried dropping file - it actually uploads a copy of it into the Joplin storage so what you modify after I assume isn't reflected in the original file.
But, you could construct URL manually and it's going to actuall copy the right file by using the browser to redirect to it.
Example:
file:///C:/Users/user/Projects/123/aws-cert-prep/slides/some.pdf
You could try asking ChatGPT how to create the .bat script so that it generates format like above anytime you right-click on any file in File Explorer. Then it's going to be easier to propagating the link into the Joplin.
Thanks for your response. Since there are no tooltips anywhere in Joplin it is hard get started, and explains why I may or may not have tried using "WYSIWYG" (I clicked the right button), the only exception for the no tooltip anywhere is over the two buttons that say "Toggle Editors", a start but virtually useless and it doesn't name them. If it is so problematic, there should be a way to disable it, I could not find an option to do so.
I'm capable of generating correct markup, I just shouldn't need to create such basic functionality, looks like there are no plugins for that so I will try other note products and come back if I need to.
A batch file would need to be associated and Windows natively has no way to do that (unless something has changed). I'm using dopus so I suppose that would be the easiest way to do it...
For the browser I'd use a bookmarklet. Ah, what the hell, I'll do that and see how it goes.
Switching between the two editor modes is a supported operation and should work with most formatting without any issues. Yes, there may be some rough edges, but I personally switch between the two on a regular basis and haven't observed any serious issues.
I'm able to reproduce the problem at hand though, and I'd personally suggest to consider reporting this is a bug on the GitHub issue tracker.
Edit:
Just a quick workaround for now. If you switch to a different note while still in the Rich Text Editor mode and come back, then the dropped link will remain as expected, i.e. with both the URL and the title, and switching to Markdown afterwards will not remove it.
I'm still learning Joplin, I assume the WYSIWUG mode is the rich text editor? Also if its best not to use that and swapping does appear buggy, how do you view the note and click on hypertext links etc?
This is my bookmarklet for URLs (I've also managed to create a dopus button for files/folders):
This clearly is a bug. You either support drag and drop or you don't. But currently, the user thinks he copies a link into the WYSIWYG editor but it will disappear after he quits Joplin.
To the OP, you can use a browser plugin "Copy as Markdown" to copy a page link already formatted in Markdown.