06.28.06

Opening links

Posted in TextMate, GTD at 2:45 pm by Haris

One of the lesser known features of the [GTDAlt] bundle is its handling of links. Suppose that you are in a line in your notes where something like this appears:

Then pressing ctrl-L opens this page (in your default browser). What might be not well known is that the same happens with mail links, e.g.:

will open your mail client and prepare an email to who@there.com. I might consider adding the rest of the note as default title for the email. More importantly, you can have links to files in your drive:

Then ctrl-L opens this file in the default application for it. You can create such a link by dragging a file with extension txt, gtd or markdown. You can add more admissible extensions by editing the file types allowed by the drag command in the bundle.