The first full version of Stardown has been released! Stardown is a free browser extension I created for copying markdown links for websites. One click on its icon copies a markdown link for the current page. A double-click copies markdown links for all tabs. Right-clicking a website gives you a markdown link for where you right-clicked.
Although I have tons of bookmarks, I save even more website links into markdown files in Obsidian and notes about software I’m working on. I got tired of manually writing markdown links, and I wanted to learn about creating browser extensions anyways. After learning the basics, I searched for similar existing extensions but wasn’t satisfied by any of them. They all required at least two clicks and had big menus with tons of options I didn’t care about. None of them took advantage of text fragments. That’s why I decided to put a lot of effort into Stardown.
I use Stardown many times a day almost every day. I mostly use it to copy a link for only the current page for notes about useful/interesting websites, especially since I found browser history so difficult to search through that I don’t use it. Occasionally, I copy links for all tabs when I want to temporarily close a bunch of related tabs to return to them later. Probably about a third of the time I copy text from a website, I also want a link to the site, so I select the text and use Stardown’s right-click copy option to get everything at once.
Stardown is designed for all markdown editors and available for almost all major browsers. It’s open source, easier to use than all similar extensions, and more likely to be up-to-date because of how simple it is and the fact that I use it all the time. I hope it will be helpful to you too.
P.S. — I published some notes on making browser extensions.