Link previews like in Telegram/Whatsapp/Notion, but as downloadable images for use in any note taking tool (MacDown, The Archive, Word, etc.)

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2021-07-08 16:30:02

Link previews like in Telegram/Whatsapp/Notion, but as downloadable images for use in any note taking tool (MacDown, The Archive, Word, etc.)

Today, link previews are common – in messengers (e.g. WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal), team chats (e.g. Slack, Microsoft Teams) or web-based note taking tools (e.g. Notion, Dropbox Paper). Whenever you send somebody a link you get this nice visual summary.

However, I personally heavily use the "Zettelkasten"-approach to note-taking and store all my notes locally as markdown files. I needed an "old fashioned" solution where you generate a preview from a URL/link/website as a normal image file that I can download and store (forever).

This makes it work nicely with plain text or markdown based tools like The Archive, Obsidian, Macdown, iA-Writer. But since the previews are normal images you can use it in any tool (Microsoft Word / Photoshop / whatever you like).

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