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Google recently introduced a new (menu) command: "Copy link to selected text" Could you offer this in the list of gesture commands?

I use this new command a lot this way:

1. Select an important text part
2. Copy a link to this important text part into the clipboard with the new function
3. Open this link (jumps to the important text part)
4. copy the important text again
5. create a bookmark of this link (Ctrl+D) and paste the (important) text into its name field as the bookmarks name

This way I create a bookmark named with the important text and jumping to this section of the website. The bookmark manager shows even larger bookmark names (longer texts) when hoovering.

Unfortunately the sequence is far from elegant. I believe experts could easily create a command/gesture doing all 5 steps on the fly. My gratitude would be immense ...

It is Copy link to highlight ? https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/10256233?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&oco=1

@tockschmock

I don't want to speak for @tockschmock but I'm fairly certain that what you referenced is what he was referencing. From what I could gather after briefly perusing the web, it appears that at some point the feature was changed in name from "copy link to selected text" to "copy link to highlight". It's either that or the feature itself is called "copy link to selected text" but what is actually found in the context menu is "copy link to highlight," which is somewhat confusing but that's the impression I got from the featured snippet at the very top of Google's results when searching "copy link to selected text" ( see the screenshot below. Nevermind the fact that it says Whoogle at the top of the screenshot. Whoogle is just a privacy-respecting search engine that provides the same Google results exactly as Google would without the tracking, data harvesting, etc.)

I don't want to speak for @tockschmock but I'm fairly certain that what you referenced is what he was referencing. From what I could gather after briefly perusing the web, it appears that at some point the feature was changed in name from "copy link to selected text" to "copy link to highlight". It's either that or the feature itself is called "copy link to selected text" but what is actually found in the context menu is "copy link to highlight," which is somewhat confusing but that's the impression I got from the featured snippet at the very top of Google's results when searching "copy link to selected text" ( see the screenshot below. Nevermind the fact that it says Whoogle at the top of the screenshot. Whoogle is just a privacy-respecting search engine that provides the same Google results exactly as Google would without the tracking, data harvesting, etc.)

thanks this is the function I was referring to its name in the context menu is (now?) "Copy link to highlight" having it as a gesture would be valuable

Above I also suggested an extended functionality that would be very useful: Creating a bookmark pointing to the selected text and having the selected text as its name (or part of its name attached to the URL). I frequently do this manually (sucks). I even copy several interesting text parts of a website into the bookmark name (divided by +++ ) and can later easily read it by hovering over the bookmark in the bookmark manager. Bookmarks can store large amounts of text. So the perfect function "bookmark annotation" would add a divider " +++ " followed by the selected text to the bookmark name.

example link: https://www.cnet.com/tech/musk-is-twitters-singular-solution-says-co-founder-jack-dorsey/#:~:text=Dorsey%20publicly%20threw%20his%20support%20behind%20Musk%20after%20Twitter%27s%20board%20of%20directors%20earlier%20in%20the%20day%20unanimously%20approved%20the%20Tesla%20and%20SpaceX%20CEO%27s%20unsolicited%20offer%20for%20the%20social%20media%20service.

I never thought about using the bookmark title as extensively as you do but it's interesting to say the least and I can think of at least a couple applications where it would come in handy.

Chrome bookmarks

• allow plenty of text
• can be searched for this text in the bookmarks manager
• conveniently show many lines of this text when hovering over a bookmark

check it out

unfortunately there are not many clever tools to store information snippets from web pages conveniently, so this is my hack

I am really looking forward to the Arc browser project with its integrated information storage ....