Paste URL to highlighted text to make a link

[mbrevoort]

Can we please make it so when you highlight text and paste a link, that it turns that text into a link with the URL you just pasted? Like is done in Dropbox Paper and Slack? It feels like magic every time

Cmd-k is at odds with few other apps and muscle memory is beating my simple brain.

[trix180]

Hi Welcome,

I was not aware of this but sounds indeed very handy! I’ll add this to our To-Do list

Thanks and Regards.

[jinksi]

This is also the behaviour of the GitHub markdown editor and this Discourse markdown editor when pasting a link over selected text.

[jinksi]

This was also requested here:

Feature request: Create link on paste

With the imminent release of the public beta for Bear 2.0, it may be a little late in the piece for feature requests, but here goes. When a user has highlighted a word in the note, and then pastes a link, it would be great if this would generate a link in Bear with the highlighted word being the title of the link. Slack has this feature and it’s great and I find myself mistakenly attempting this, forgetting Bear does not support it.