Insert link to currently active item in other apps like Mail, Finder, browser

[idpaterson]

Originally requested by @albrox in the Alfred forums

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The Reminders workflow has a clever feature allowing the user to insert a reference to content within other apps. When the this keyword is used, the workflow gets information about the currently selected item in the frontmost app and inserts that into the task as a link or text.

This is accomplished with a lot of AppleScript code that provides a simple interface for each supported application. Implementing such a feature would likely involve asking the author of the Reminders workflow to publish the application data lookup as a standalone module since I would not want to rewrite and maintain the same functionality separately.

Please :thumbsup: if you are interested. This idea will require more feedback to determine whether it is necessary and how it would integrate with Wunderlist (task, subtask, notes, etc). If you have a use case that would leverage the ability to reference content in other apps please share that with as much detail as you can.

[johandebeurs]

This would be handy. Its fairly common for me to take a URL or email and want to add not just that as a to-do but also detail on what needs to be done and when. More explicit workflow:

• I get an email which requires a bunch of follow up actions
• I want to start a to-do for it from within my browser/email client where I read it
• That to-do creation should have the current flexibility in this workflow
• Once the task is created I'd like to edit and add all the sub-tasks
• Ideally I'd link be able to add a link (i.e. in the description) to that email within the browser/email client so once I have done the sequence of to-dos I can come back to the email and respond