The Archive 3rd Party Macros

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This page lists all known macros for Keyboard Maestro, Alfred, and other third-party launchers that can enhance your workflows with The Archive.

Bundles

• Alfred workflow by @pryley: bundle of many different actions to work with your Zettelkasten from anywhere
• @seanakabry’s KM macro collection

Writing and linking

• Link & tag auto-completion bundle by @Will
• Insert link to notes with auto-completion/type-ahead search
  • Variant by @Will, inserting the ID
  • Variant by @kaidoh, inserting the full note title
  • Variant by @Vinho, periodically updating a KM variable
• Tag auto-completion/type-ahead search
• Extract new note from selected text by @sfast
• Table of Contents link: Inset link with spacing to right-align links
• Copy note links in 3 different formats by @Will
  • For an alternative to one of these formats: Convert The Archive’s copied links from [[YYMMDDHHMM Title]] to [[YYMMDDHHMM]] Title also by @Will

Creating Notes

• Create new note from selecton
• Create & update Zettel and its metadata (Alfred workflow)
• Create Zettel (Keyboard Maestro)
• Insert note header/template

Getting Stuff into The Archive

• Paste without newlines, e.g. to copy from PDFs.
• Copy link to mail, media, or website into The Archive by @Will
• Take screenshot and save into The Archive: saves the picture in your media folder and prepares the Markdown to insert an image in your clipboard.
  • Good news: The Archive since v1.7 supports image pasting from the clipboard directly!

Maintenance, Search and Replace

• Rename note and update all links by @seanakabry.
• Global find and replace for titles in all notes, by @Vinho.
• Global find and replace for whole note contents by @Vinho.
• Print all tags from .txt files (run from archive directory) by Will, a.k.a. Create a “Tag Cloud” note.
• Create note that adds details to tag by @Will.
  • Another approach in The Archive could be to create a note with the tag as the filename. When you search for the tag #zettelkasten, the file #zettelkasten.txt will be presented to you automatically as a sort of hub note.
• Generate a statistics dashboard by @Will.
• Visualize network of selected notes via graphviz by @Vinho.
• Create nested list from connections of selected notes by @Vinho.
• Create & update note backlink back-matter by @piotr. Uses Andy Matuschak’s “note janitor” script we wrote about before.

Visualization

• Generate a statistics dashboard
• Visualize network of selected notes via graphviz
• Create nested list from connections of selected notes
• Create & update note backlink back-matter

Reference management:

• Insert BibDesk citekey, choose from list by @cdguit.
• Insert links to Evernote notes by @Will, a.k.a. Using Evernote as a PDF and article archive.

Media:

• Move image to /media and put syntax in clipboard: Select files in Finder and copy to the media directory and create in the system clipboard a formatted link for pasting, e.g. ![](media/001.jpg).

Linking and getting to notes:

• Search for note by ID at cursor position from any application by @Mediapathic.
  • Sascha’s variant skips the clipboard and emulates keystrokes on behalf of the user.
  • Open note that matches selection from other apps by @seanakabry (like external wiki linking)
• Copy note links in format by @Will does:
  • Insert Inline Note Link (UID only) [[202008011415]]
  • Insert Title 1st Note Link - Zettelkasting Dashboard [[202008011415]]
  • Insert UID 1st Note Link - [[202008011415]] Zettelkasting Dashboard
    • Also: Convert The Archive’s copied links from [[YYMMDDHHMM Title]] to [[YYMMDDHHMM]] Title

Miscellaneous

• Poor Man’s Roam: “Creates a new note with all paragraphs containing search term”
• Insert URLs to notes from other apps with auto-completion/type-ahead search
• Open note that matches selection from other apps (like external wiki linking)