Google docs has a cool new feature where when you paste a url it goes and grabs the title of the page (I assume) and proposes using that instead of the actual URL. I do this by hand a lot and would love if I could:
Would save me a lot of time.
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Hi,
I suggested a similar feature here but it didn’t go on.
Has this useful feature been implemented? Obsidian has a plug in for it. Now OneNote (with the OneMore plug in) can also do it. It's super handy to just copy paste a url link and it turns into a nicely formatted link with the page title as the text. I bet many of us have old notes with a lot of pasted links and it would be nice to be able to convert them to legible texts.
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Looks like multiple Obsidian plugins provide this feature. Some even do it without fetching the page (although this misses some edge cases), such as: GitHub - AlexRazor1337/link-name-from-url: Obsidian plugin to help generate Markdown links from raw URLs without fetching the page.
Agreed. Would a feature like this be a good candidate to include in the Joplin Batch plugin? Could this be automatic the same way the Space Indenter plugin's Automatic find & replace of tab --> space (or vice versa) feature works?
I use browser extensions such as GitHub - yorkxin/copy-as-markdown: A browser extension to copy tabs and links as Markdown to copy Markdown links directly from desktop browser tabs. This helps as most programs and services I use don't yet or won't implement this.
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What a year that Joplin had. OCR, WYSIWYG editor on iOS including tables… Joplin is almost perfect. Any chance we can get this feature/plugin in 2026? Fingers crossed.
Apple Notes has this neat feature: it not only can turn a plain URL into a properly formatted link with the title, but also can toggle between a plain link and a preview card with the link and a picture.
Should be very handy as we collect too many URLs over the years and forget what they are referring to.
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This is only for the markdown editor/desktop, but I added the ability to fetch the title for a link to my context utils plugin:
